What it means to be free or not in "room"

I have recently read a touching book ,"Room" by Emma Donnahue,about what makes us human, about our resilience to survive if we have feelings of connection to others, the desire to give what ever we have hidden in us to another, to desire to love another and take responsibility for the good of another, which is ultimately for the good of our selves. A woman ,Ma,is kidnapped. In the course of her years of captive,slave she births a child in captivity, Jack who teaches her about the courage to live, to live,and ultimately to be free.Ma births Jack alone in captivity. The birthing of this baby orangutan in captivity reminded of the beginnings of Jack's life in captivity.


Eventually Ma and Jack leave "room" , to "outside". Here is a version of what outside could mean to someone who sees it for the
first time or every time.



i thank you God for most this amazing
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)


by ee cummings