Book Project 1

The Room, is a excellent book, and it is on my must read list. This book is really enlightening, even though it is fiction. The book has many different attractive aspects to it, we just need to market the positive aspects. The parts of the story that touch your heart. I have a couple of ideas: a tooth necklace, a board game, and a trailer which would eventually result in a movie.

For the accessory a significant object we constantly see with Jack, would be his mothers’ tooth. We saw it multiple different times during the most dramatic moments of the story. For example when he was rescued, and he was talking to the police officer. When he was thinking about his mom when she was in the hospital when Jack was at his grandparents house. “My family is Grandma Steppa Bronwyn Uncle Paul Deana and Grandpa, only he shudders at me. Also Ma. I move Tooth into my cheek. ‘Is she dead?’”(Donoghue 254). The accessory would be a tooth necklace, although it can be considered “gross” it would be a true perception of the hardships of Jack and his mom while he was dealing with the Old Nick. 

For the game, it would resemble what game Jack and his mom played while living in “The Room,” while in the room they found themselves playing different activities to keep Jack and his mom entertained. For example they would play track, and run around the room, to keep themselves fit. “For Phys Ed we leave our socks off because bare feet are grippier. Today i choose Track first, we lift Table upside down onto Bed and Rocker on her with Rug over the both. Track goes around Bed from wardrobe to Lamp, the shape on Floor is a black C”(15). The game would resemble the set up off the room, and to win you would be the first person to get out off the room. 

My last idea would be to make a movie trailer based off of the story of The Room,  this is sadly a story that we hear a lot, and although this novel is fiction; it is a good accurate portrayal on how hard life was for Jack and his mother. Donoghue talked about how the media was very persistent on getting the story, because they know that people would watch the news station. “It’s dark but then there’s lights quick quick like fireworks. “Vultures,” says Officer Oh. ‘Where?’ ‘No pictures,’ shouts the man police. What pictures? I don’t see any vultures I only see persons faces with machines flashing and black fat sticks. They’re shouting but I can’t understand”(159). The trailer would soon result in a movie.