Book One Project

 Room Museum Exhibit

(CAUTION SPOILERS)

Room

This will be an exciting simulation of Room. It will feature Wardrobe, Bed, TV, skylight, the hole, and more. This will be a life size room where people can walk in and imagine what it would feel like in Jack and his Mother’s position. They will be able to enter Wardrobe and imagine sleeping in there every night for five years. What would you do if you had to eat the same things every week? See their daily meals and weekly list. What would you do every day for 24 hours?  See their daily schedule and how they past their time.

Jack’s Vision

“I walk on flowers by accident, there’s hundreds not a bunch like the crazies send us in the mail, they’re growing right in the ground like hair on my head.” Jack is only five and has a different interpretation of things. When reading this book it is sometimes hard to understand why he thinks or does something the way that he does. In this part of the exhibit you will be able to look at the things in the book as Jack sees them. What seems normal to someone like you and I, is completely different to Jack. You will be able to look through a series of glasses to see several different scenarios that Jack encounters throughout this story. Look at Jack’s Vision of Old Nick, Police Officers, The City, and more.

The Brown Truck

The Brown Truck is a big part of the book. In one scene when Jack and his Mother plan their escape, Jack must play dead until he is in the truck. This is Jack’s first time out of Room and the first time in a car. Jack is very scared and confused about what is happening. He must time the cars stopping to indicate when to jump. “There’s another beep but a different. A rattling like all metals. Up again, then crash, on my face, ow ow ow. Bang. Then she starts to shake and throb and roar under my front, its an earthquake…” In this section of the exhibit you will be able to sit in a simulator where you have to decide when to jump. When you make the decision there will be a surprise waiting for you – a whole new world that you’ve never seen before.

Drawing Station

Draw what you think Jack and the other characters would look like. If you don’t enjoy drawing but you want to share our own opinion of the way they look we will provide a professional artist for a small charge. After your drawing is complete give it to the front desk for a competition on the closest look alike to Jack and his Friends. All drawing will be given to the author and compared to her thoughts of the way she imagined them while writing the book.

Children’s Corner

Can’t make it to the exhibit because you can’t find a babysitter.  Bring the kids with you, they can play in the children’s corner. Your children can play the way Jack did. They can make their own eggsnake, play the number game, and have Physical Education. “Eggsnake is more longer than all around Room, we’ve been making him since I was three, he lives in Under Bed all coiled up keeping us safe… His tongue is a needle, that keeps red thread going right through him.” They can even make their own Sunday treat list. There will also be a small truck simulator where they can pretend that they have to escape from the Room. Your children can read Jacks favorite books, Alice in Wonderland, Here’s Dylan’s’ and more. Let them watch his favorite shows, Barney, Dora, The Wonder Pets, and more. So they will have to jump out of the truck when the time is right. When they leave they can have an orange sucker, Jacks favorite.

 

 

  

What is a book?

A book is a blanket. A book is a blanket that you can curl up with and read for hours and hours a day. A book is like a blanket because it starts cold until you warm up to it. You can curl up with a blanket on Sunday night and feel its warmth. Once you are warm under the blanket you never want to get up. After you get up all you want to do is get warm again. A blanket can help you through hard times. You can cry into the blanket or you can cough in to it too. It has a laundry smell that makes you smile. It has a fuzzy feeling that never goes away.

A book is better than a kindle or an electronic book. An eBook doesn’t have a scent and it doesn’t have the same feel as a hard copy.  You can only read it for so long before your eyes begin to hurt and you become sick from looking at a screen. It’s the feeling of flipping the page instead of clicking a button. A page is a page unlike the eBook which turns one page into several pages just so you can see the font. You have to click the button several times to get from page one to page two.

When reading an eBook there isn’t a sense of accomplishment after finishing a book.  When you read an actual book you can see how large it looks and you know the weight of the book. When you are half way through you can see the line that your bookmark makes in the book. It’s like a half way mark in a race; once your half way through you can tell yourself that your half way there.  When you’re reading an eBook it’s like just seeing that you are 13.2 miles into the race. How far in the race is that? It doesn’t say half way, only 13.2 miles. There is no sense of accomplishment.

Being able to pass down a book to family and tell them how good it was it great. What if it is passed down generations and all of your family ends up reading it. So what do you do when you have an eBook and you can only share to so many relatives because they don’t all have eReader’s. 

Oh no I lost my kindle! So now I don’t have any of my books! If I had hard copies of the books I would a lot smaller chance of losing them all at once. It may be nice to be able to carry all of your books around at once but if you lose your device then you have to buy a new one and restore all of your books. If you lose the one book you’re reading it is easier and a lot cheaper to replace it.

MIss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The main character in this book is Jake. In the begining of the book Jake tells the reader about his job. He tells the reader that he is trying to get fired from his job which runs through his family. Most people would react to this as a good thing; he has a long lasting job that is hard to lose. But Jake takes advantage of this and he tries to proove that its possible for him to get fired. In the book Jake tells the reader " ". This tells us that...

Jake also shows the reader that he is different and reacts differently than other characters to certain situations. In the book when his Grandfather runs off into the woods behind his house, Jake does something crazy that worries the characters and the reader. One of Jake's friends ran back to the car to grab something and told Jake to stay there so they could go into the woods together. But instead of waiting Jake went into the woods alone. When Jake found his Grandfather dead he was suprisingly pretty calm. But when his friend found him he was in shock and was freaking out.

This all shows how different characters deal with conflict.