Analysis Of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

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The book Miss Peregrine's Home for peculiar Children By Ransom Riggs , takes place at the children's home on the islands of Wales. The society does not think the the peculiars are real that they are made up and they are not accepted . Miss Peregrine thought that it would be better to take them in instead of having them go to a regular home. She decided to make that home because they are special just like her she made the home to keep them safe so no one will bother with them and worry about what they will do the theme in the book is “Just because someone does not believe what you say does not mean it is true”. How we know this is in the book jake's dad tells him it is not true but jake still believed .

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“Your friends are imaginary” He shouted he came toward me with his face turning red”( Riggs 344). No one believed him he had to go see a counselor and the counselor said to his dad take him to the island so he will see nothing is really there but his dad did not want to take him . After long talks his dad finally thought he would take him so he could see his grandfather lied to him. When they returned back to their house and started to fight about what had happened and how jake would lied about where he was going. He would always tell his dad that he was hanging out with some boys he met but then he was not he was going to the home. But in the middle of fighting they heard a couple knocks on the door and Jake's father yelled at the person to go away but the person did not go away. They walked over to the door to open it and jake see the children they came inside the house and introduced themselves. When they got introduce Jake sorta thought his dad believed him for a millisecond . “Theses are my friends I was telling you about”(Riggs 345). We can tell jake does not believe his dad and he is just trying to be kind in front of them and act like he is seeing them to . He says to the children “ He will just wake up later and think he dreamed all of you”(Riggs 346). The children tried to come up will proof to show that they are real and that he was not …show more content…
An example of it is when jake was walking on his way to the children's home and he seen all the animals stuck in there pen. “Sheep's doddering around like little puffs of cotton candy”( Riggs 105). When jake says that it shows how the sheep relate to cotton candy fluffy and and little.Ransom Riggs is very descriptive on what the character's see and what the character's says. “ It was like a room in sleeping beauty’s castle…… a mirrored vanity table topped with crystal bottles, And a giant oak bed”(Riggs 107). He described the room just as the character is watching sleeping beauty. One example of personification would be “Open me it fairly seemed to cry out. I’m full of secrets !”(Riggs 109). How this is personification is because chests can not really talk to humans. Ransom Riggs incorporates good authors into his

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