Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

In Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Jacob Portman sets off on a journey to find the answers to his grandfather’s mysterious last words. For the past few month, Jacob was plagued with terrifying nightmares of the same monster he saw on the day of his grandfather’s death. Jacob’s psychiatrist, Dr. Golan, suggests that he goes to the island where his grandfather was raised to find the answers to his question. Jacob and his father goes to Cairnholm Island, in Wales, and Jacob finds Miss Peregrine’s house out in the island’s bog. On the way, he finds Emma Bloom, a girl that could possibly be the answers to his questions. She leads him to a cairn that turns out to be the loop of September 3, 1940. He enters the past and learns about the peculiar children with strange powers/talents. One day, a wight, who is actually Dr. Golan, kidnaps Miss Peregrine and her mentor, Miss Avocet. Both Jacob and the children went on an adventure to defeat Dr. Golan and his hollowgast, and save both ymbrynes. The quote reflects on …show more content…
As you can tell from the quote, Dr. Golan is known to be the bad guy. When Jacob was in a position where no one believed him, Dr. Golan was always there to talk to him about his problems and support him. Slowly, he was able to tell him everything that Dr. Golan wanted to know from ability to see hollowgast to the location of the peculiars. Once Jacob found out about the truth of Dr. Golan, he felt betrayed that he was also used for someone else’s purpose. Jacob learned that there are some people that can’t be trusted. In the quote, Jacob’s friends are in a situation where they aren’t unable to help themselves. They can’t help themselves with someone that is a higher level than they are. Even though they hold powers, they are no match for a wight. They trust Jacob to make the right choice and save them from being eliminated by a