A child's language
Since Jack, the narrator of 'Room', is five years old, the whole novel is written in a representation of the kind of language that a five year old would know and use. I say 'representation' because of course no real five year old could produce a coherent 400 page novel. However, we immediately recognise from the first page of the novel that the narration is not 'adult' - Donoghue has successfully created a style of...