The Room is a book about the ultimate control and manipulation of very young bodies and minds by a brutal system developed by men who pursued winning over everything else in life. It is a book which allows one to travel back in time and fast forward inside the mind of a young black boy living in the city of Pittsburgh in the early fifties. We are permitted to see what he views as daily obsitacles . We will be permitted to compare what the embarrassments he had as his bodies matures. His life of running away often places him center stage smack into the face of a series of unbelievable experiences which prepare him to face what lie behind the doors of" The Room." The Room is both a learning tree for the young man and a source of hope for many poor youth seeking recognition and respect in a world that will not . The Book moves toward one football game played in 1962 between two rival teams which changed the high school football history in Pittsburgh.