Use Of Irony In The Novel Room

The novel Room is very ironic because throughout the novel the protagonist Jack does not believe the everything in the world exists despite in the middle of the novel where Jack escapes and actually sees the world with his own eyes. In the beginning of the novel while Jack was living in the room he believed that outside of the Room he lived in was outer space. The room also had a television in which displayed commercials and shows about people and their everyday lives. Jack believed this to be a different world in which he called the TV world which is a series of colored drawing that are animated to look real. This is ironic because although he believes this place does not exist, he is actually living in it and everything he is seeing on the television is just outside of the door of the room.
Jack begins to notice that something is strange about the television world because Old Nick brings him and his mother items from the store such as food, clothes, and candy. Since Jack believes that stores do not exist where he lives, believes that Old Nick is from the TV world and can come out of the TV into the world that he lives in. This is ironic because Old Nick and Jack live in both the same world which would mean that Jack lives in the TV world as well. These situations are all ironic because despite

Jack saying that everything on thee television is fake he also says that is reality as well. He believes that Old Nick is both in the television world, and the world he lives in.
Also although he lives in the TV world, he believes he lives somewhere completely different at the same time.

Another example of the ironic situations in this noel is when Jack wants to send a letter to the television show character Dora. Although Dora lives in the TV world Jack believes that writing letters on toilet paper and flushing them down the toilet will send the letters into the sea which only exists in the TV world. This is ironic because if Jack does not live in the TV world, then how it is possible to send letters to a place that does not exist. Because of living five years in this single room it is hard for Jack to be able to see and understand the

world.
Although he believes he knows that some things do not make sense in the world, be believes that what he knows is the complete truth. Later on in the novel when Jack escapes the Room is out in the real world is the TV world, but often forgets. When a doctor approaches Jack when he is outside of the Room he states that he looks like someone from the medical world on the television, but realizes by then that everything he saw on the television is reality. Emma Donoghue does a great job at creating a story in which views how we live as something new and abstract.