SuperGlo

 In Room we’ve seen a lot of defamiliarization of things in the world. It’s got me thinking about things in real life and how I might see them in different ways. I got home from school today and my mom was working on a puzzle and my first thought was how weird that must seem to Jack. He would probably wonder why the picture was broken up in the first place and then wonder why people work so hard to put it back together for no reason. Then I began talking to my mom and dad about Room (the book, not the location) and they wanted some examples of defamiliarization in the novel. I thought it would be fun to make them try and guess what certain descriptions actually mean, and thought it would probably be tricky since they aren’t accustomed to Jack’s language of things like when Jack is outside and says, “Up close the trees are giant giants, they’ve got like skin but knobblier when we stroke them. I find a triangularish thing the big of my nose” (Room 211). From the context, I know Jack i

In class we’ve been discussing a lot what it would mean for Grant to succeed in his mission. He is supposed to make Jefferson feel like and act like a man before he is killed, which is a daunting task. There are a lot of different ways of interpreting success specifically with Jefferson and him becoming a “man” before he dies, it is possible that him walking tall and proud to the chair could be seen as a man or maybe him leaving a legacy behind would mean he is a true man. I think that those things could count as Grant’s success with Jefferson, but it is important to measure Grant’s success overall based off of how he acts in the years following this experience. We see throughout the story that Grant feels some sense of guilt or responsibility for Jefferson being in the cell and being considered by the community a “hog”. This guilt of Grant’s comes from him participating in the system that tells young black students not to learn anything useful in school. Grant says he teaches readi