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Escape rooms

When I was reading Room  and the first time I realized that Ma was kidnapped and held as a sex prisoner, I first thought of escape rooms, which started becoming popular around the world starting around 2015. In an escape room, you are stuck in a rule filled with objects (some are hidden), and some of these objects are clues to how to escape the room. Room however has no hidden objects (at least according to Jack), and no clues to escape the room (except the code, but there are no objects that can help crack the code). And in a "regular" escape room, you have a time limit (less than 1 hour in most escape rooms) to solve the puzzle, and if you can't solve it in time then you just lose, and you just leave the escape room and mope for the rest of the day. However, if Ma and Jack are not capable of escaping Room within a time limit (which is the time Old Nick leaves the Room and the time Old Nick arrives again), then Ma has to suffer another night with Old Nick and Jack has

Guilty until proven Innocent

So some of you guys might be familiar with the video game series Ace Attorney , you are a defense attorney where the levels are the trials you are trying prove that your client is innocent. It is very clear that the court system in the video game (I am using the very first game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney from now on) is guilty until proven innocent. It is evident because the prosecutor are fabricating lies and sometimes actually tampers with evidence in order to get the result he wants. Furthermore, the game is made in Japan, a country that is notorious for being guilty before innocent (near 0% crime rate, yet near 100% conviction rate). When you find something off in either the prosecutor's statement, witness testimony, you press the objection button and this music plays , indicating that you are closing to winning the trial. I am bringing up this game because in A Lesson Before Dying, it is a similar situation. It is clear that the court system is guilty until proven innocent