![]() ![]() He and Ma stay at The Cumberland Clinic, and Jack gets some space to himself at Grandma's house. Jack lives in a few different rooms in the Outside world. By the time Jack is five, it's at least in the late 2000s. And Ma doesn't know what YouTube or Facebook are until she gets out of Room, so she could very well have been kidnapped in 2001 or 2002. ![]() Jack knows who Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Kanye West are, which puts us into at least 2008. ![]() We're a little more confident in pinning down the time period. (Perhaps Ireland, where Emma Donoghue is from?) state quarters in her purse, but Jack calls his butt a "bum" (3.717) and someone calls him a "lad" (4.1368), which makes it sound like they're on the other side of the Atlantic. But we're not even sure what country we're in. We're not sure exactly which city they're in, but they're definitely in a city filled with tall buildings, many playgrounds, and a large mental healthcare Clinic. When Ma's escape plan works in the second half of the book, she and Jack find themselves in the Outside world. It's locked by a special keypad and only Old Nick, the kidnapper, knows the code. (Read more about Room on our " About the Title" page.) Room is separated from Outside (i.e., the whole rest of the world) by Door, which is made of "shiny magic metal" (1.72). It's in the backyard of a kidnapper's house, and it's where the kidnappers has held a girl for seven years. The first half of the book takes place in Room. Room and Outside, circa 2008 Room for Two ![]()
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