The Media in Room
It's been a hot minute since we talked about Room as a group, but to be honest, it's still on my mind. What I want to talk about in this post is the final question Mr. Mitchell left with our class, is that are we just some twisted form of the media? In class, we were criticizing the media in Room for being overly interested in Jack and Ma's story, but aren't we kind of in their head, intruding in their private thoughts? Put it simply, are we the asshole? We find Jack and Ma's story just as interesting as much of the American public does. Although it's objectively an interesting story, I found myself wanting to know more and more about Jack and Ma's situation, and part of the page-turning pull of the novel was that there were just so many questions that were left unanswered on every page. Even after I finished the novel, I was left with questions. And then I truly understood why the media was so eager to chase Jack and Ma around, and why the ladies in the d