He is a criminal who kidnapped and raped joy ma newsome in captivity and is the biological father of her son jack.
Room jack old nick.
Old nick is in popular culture and common usage a nickname for both santa claus and satan and in room old nick earns this strange sobriquet.
Falling for the ruse old nick places jack in the back of his pickup truck and drives through a residential neighborhood.
Jack escapes old nick and manages to reach a friendly stranger who contacts the police.
Old nick is the man who kidnapped ma when she was nineteen and locked her in a shed in his backyard.
The next day their routine continues.
Old nick removes jack wrapped in a rug from room.
In spite of his inability to communicate effectively jack describes the route of room to an officer to free ma.
For the first two half of room the only characters we meet are jack ma and old nick.
He is never accurately described as a person.
Old nick for the first two half of room the only characters we meet are jack ma and old nick.
It is as if the reader were also viewing him from inside jack s cupboard.
Joy wraps jack in a carpet and has him play dead in the hope that old nick will remove him from room.
So not exactly a happy.
Jack goes into the cupboard to sleep while old nick the man whom the reader learns captured ma and imprisoned her in room visits ma in the night.
He rapes her regularly.
Of course his young mother is in the room too taking care of her only son and making sure nothing bad happens to him especially when old nick pays them a visit and jack starts hearing creaking sounds.
Old nick is the main antagonist of the 2015 independent drama film room which was based on emma donoghue s novel of the same name.
They make a ball out of scrunched up paper and play with it.
Five year old jack s whole world is a confined 11 by 11 foot locked space crammed with pictures toys and books the room.
He brings her vitamins and food.