Comparison Of Room And Clevland Kidnapping

Room Book and clevland kidnapping

Marcilne Valmore once said “Are we not like two volumes of one book?” Some may say this is the case with the Novel “Room” and the true story of the clevleland kidnappings. Both are horrible stories on crimes against women commited by seemingly “normal” men. Based on their plot,characters and settings the book “Room” and the clevland kidnappings are more alike than diffrent.

The plot of the book room closely resembles the case of the clevland kidnappings. A way in which the plot of “Room” and clevleland are similar are both stories involve the kidnapping of young teenage women. The character “Ma” from room was just a young ninteen year old women when she was lured and kidnapped from her college campus.

The first vitcim of the clevland kidnapping, Michelle knight was also a young teenager when she was kidnapped she was just sixteen years old.

The plot of the room and the clevland kidnapping also is resembled in the way that both victims went through unimaginary amounts of rape and abuse. Shortly after being kidnapped “Ma” concived a baby by her prisoner “Old nick” She gave birth to the baby but the child shortly died after of suffication from the umbilical cord. This closely resembles the story of Michelle Knight as she has reported her Kidnapper Ariel Castro induced miscarages by beating and sometimes starvations. “Ma” is also significantly simillar to the victim Amanda berry. Both women conviced and gave birth to children by their kidnappers. The final resmeblence in the plot of “ Room” and the clevland kidnappings is the escape. In the book “Room” Ma pretends jack is dead and has old nick take his body wrapped up in the rug he

was born on and after jack was off of the proprety he proceeded to jump out the back of the truck and run for help from anybody near by. This is somewhat similar to the escape and resuce of Amanda berry and the other two victims. Amanda opened a unlocked door and screamed for help through the bolted screen door for neighbors to notice her. Due to Amanda and Jack bravery they were saved from those horrific cercimstances.
These two stories are also simlar in the way of the characters. The antagoinist closely resembled each other physcologly and personality wise. They were both percived as normal people. The character old nick was seen as a man who lived alone and was never married. He didnt socialize much and has huge shrubs in his back yard. He was just viewed as a man who wanted his priviacy. Ariel castro was also a man who lived alone and was thought to have a normal life. He was thought to be a normal man. He was formely married to the mother of his children who all lived in the house where the kidnappings took place. Castro became abusive towards his wife and they divoriced in 1992 and she moved out of the house with her four children having full custody. After the divorice castro was just an unmarried man living by himself in his two story 4 bedroom home. Another chilling way in which these two men were similar is they seemingly had normal jobs. Although never said old nick at once was employed but was laid off. Ariel castro also had a seemingly normal job. He was a school bus driver for the “clevland metropolitan school discrist.” Castro was fired from his job for “Poor judgement” He would make reckless descisions like make u-turns with children on the bus, Leave children on the bus unattened and other things deemed unprofessional. Both men were also similar in the way they choose their victims. “Old nick” kidnapped ma when she was just ninteen years old and she was just starting off in college. Ariel castro vitctims were also young women the ages of the women who were kidnapped went from the youngest being just fourteen years old and the oldest being twenty-one years old at the time of the kidnapping.
The book room and the clevleand kidnappings were also comparable in the ways of the settings.

Both the novel room and the clevland kidnappings take place in modern time. Its not known the exacty date in which “Room” takes place but it is known to be modern time. Ariel castro first kidnapping took place on august,23rd.2002. There is also a resemblance in the setting of the houses of both “Old nick” and ariel castro. In the movie of “ Room” old nick’s house is a regular looking house on the block with a huge back yard and a small shed making people think it was used for storage. Ariel castro house was also similar to the “Normal” houses on the block. Castro lived by himself in a two story 4 bedroom one bathroom house” The house doors were mostly kept clothes and windows were covered. Castro never entered the house through the front door only through the back door. The final distrurbing resemblance of “Room” and the cleveland kidnappings was the soundproof rooms the victims were locked in In “Room Ma and jack lived in those four walls with the basics needed to live. The clevland victim’s were kept on the second floor in seprerate rooms from each other. All rooms were soundproof and all the windows were covered. Had they not escaped they still would be there till this

day.
Marciline Valmore said “Are we not two voulmes of the same book.” The victims of “Room” and the clevland kidnapping expericed Rape,tourture, Physical and mental abuse. The story of room may not be based on a true story but they are comeplellingly the same story of two diffrent women.