Jacob Portman Book Report

When first beginning to read this novel the reader may think the main character Jacob Portman is a boy whose grandfather told him wild fairy tales of his childhood, but in actuality, the stories his grandfather had been telling him were true all along. Jacob was someone who didn’t really have many friends and was always listening to stories of Grandpa Portman’s home for peculiar children and how he left to fight in the war. Once Jacob grew older, he began to no longer have an interest in the stories he began to see as fairy tales. After his grandfather is killed in a strange accident that was said to believe rabid dogs as the cause of death, Jacob finds clues in Grandpa Portman’s house that takes him on a journey to find out more about his grandfather’s childhood. Jacob became very distraught once his grandfather was killed and nobody believed him that a monster killed him. He begins to have nightmares and falls into a depression. Because of this, his psychiatrist, Dr. Golan, advises that Jacob goes to the island where his grandpa grew up to try to find out the meaning of Abe’s last dying words. …show more content…
Past the town and through the woods, Jacob discovers an old mansion. He began to search throughout the mansion and he finds a stack of old photos much like his grandfather’s old stack of childhood photos. After he found the photos, he looks up to see a herd of children gazing at him and before he has time to say anything, they become frightened and run away. Jacob chases one of the children and he chases the girl through a cairn that turns out to be a portal to the date September 3, 1940, the day before his grandfather’s childhood home was destroyed. The old mansion he first saw with holes in the walls is now restored and full of children with peculiar characteristics. Jacob then realizes that his grandfather’s stories are not stories, they are true and about his