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You don't think she was empowered? She managed to survive for all those years, protect her son from even seeing the monster who held them captive and then found a way to actually set them free. If that's not empowered, I don't know what is.
I totally agree. I finished the book but had to force myself. The childish speech patterns given to the boy drove me crazy. Still don't get why this book was so popular.
I don't see that there would have been much of a story had she escaped earlier. Also, it was based (very loosely) off of a real case where a woman was kept in much the same condition with multiple children: the youngest child had never left the Room.
Funnily, I thought she did do something to get out of there? There are real life cases where it's took the girls equally as long to escape their abusers and sadly there are likely to be girls out there still in this situation.
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Dec 11, 2012 06:38PM
You don't think she was empowered? She managed to survive for all those years, protect her son from even seeing the monster who held them captive and then found a way to actually set them free. If that's not empowered, I don't know what is.
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I totally agree. I finished the book but had to force myself. The childish speech patterns given to the boy drove me crazy. Still don't get why this book was so popular.
I don't see that there would have been much of a story had she escaped earlier. Also, it was based (very loosely) off of a real case where a woman was kept in much the same condition with multiple children: the youngest child had never left the Room.
Funnily, I thought she did do something to get out of there? There are real life cases where it's took the girls equally as long to escape their abusers and sadly there are likely to be girls out there still in this situation.
