Clues & inference 2
In Clues & inference 1, we looked at how the child's eye view is handled in Room. The novel makes a steady progress from the very constricted world of the room/prison itself, to the much wider outside world. As the novel's horizons expand, in part paralleling the expansion in Jack's world, so the demands on the reader's ability to infer and construct the world of the novel change. This becomes strikingly apparent...