Let's not even broach the subject of Denny's and 24-hour breakfast yet, okay? Heck, Jack has trouble understanding the concept of a shower in general. Jack has difficulty understanding, for example, that they can shower before breakfast.
Ma really wants to get back to a routine once she's out in the world, but a "routine" in the Outside is a lot less defined than the strict routine she set for she and Jack inside Room. It's not the easy return to normal life she was hoping for. She has to learn about Facebook, YouTube, and Skype, and she has to deal with all the paparazzi hounding her and her son for photos. The world might be brand new to Jack, but Ma has a hard time getting used to it, too-and she's been there before. It may seem like Jack does all the work to get them out, but it really is teamwork that frees them. Her previous escape attempts didn't pan out, but that doesn't mean she stopped thinking about it. She has to let him do it in order to survive. She stands up to Old Nick, which is no small feat, given that this is a man who rapes her repeatedly. Whether she means it as a guilt trip or not, it makes Jack fear letting her down, and it makes him work harder at being brave. "You said you were going to be my superhero" (3.241) she tells Jack at one point. Old Nick has lost his job, and if he abandons his house, he will leave them there to starve.
She puts a lot of pressure on Jack, using him to escape, because she's afraid they will die if they don't get out. Ma really wants to return to the outside world, unlike Jack, who doesn't know what he's missing. She still breastfeeds him too, which isn't unusual within the context of Room but does earn her some strange stares from others when they return to the outside world. She spends every waking moment with him, educating him, feeding him, playing with him. After a failed suicide attempt, Ma recuperates, and she eventually moves into an apartment of her own with Jack. With Jack's help, they get away from Old Nick and back into the real world. She has two children while in Room: the first, a daughter, who is stillborn, and then Jack, who is five when Ma formulates a plan for them to escape. Kidnapped by Old Nick when she was nineteen, Ma spends eight years inside Room. We never learn her real name, and Jack only calls her Ma.
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