Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children When first beginning to read this novel the reader may think that it may be a terrible book but in actuality the book is a great book because it has an unexpected plot and a great theme. In, the beginning of Miss Peregrine’s, Jacob is at work as a shelf stocker at the family owned business Smart Aid. Jacob soon is getting yelled at once again by his boss Shelley, because he messed on stacking adult diapers in the form of the Empire State building. Then all of a sudden he gets a call from his Grandpa Portman, his Grandpa was trying to find a key to his gun cabinet that he thought Jacob had because “they” were coming after him. Grandpa Portman felt unsafe and needed a gun to protect himself,
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When Jacob and Ricky got to grandpa Portman’s house the door was closed and locked, Jacob found a key to the door and went inside leaving Ricky at the door waiting. When Jacob went inside he called out for his grandpa but did not get a reply. Jacob walked throughout the house, turning on lights trying to find Grandpa Portman but had no such luck. Jacob walked toward the entrance to the backyard and saw that the screen had a large scratch in it, Jacob walked toward the door and saw a flashlight abandoned by his grandpa at the edge of the woods. Jacob called out for Ricky and ran into the woods to find his grandpa. After a while of looking for grandpa Portman they finally found him laying down, barely alive and bleeding to death. When Jacob tried to move his grandpa he told him, “Go to the island, Yakob. Here it’s not safe” “Go to the island ““You’ll be safe there, promise me “‘find the bird in the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave. September third, 1940” ‘Emerson- the letter. Tell them what happened, Yakob.” With that grandpa Portman died in Jacob’s …show more content…
Golan convinced Jacob that the creature had been nothing more than his imagination; and the trauma of his Grandfather’s had made him see something that wasn’t really there. There was a name for Jacob’s condition, “Acute Stress Reaction”. Jacob staring getting twitchy and paranoid, he was bad at interacting with people to. Dr. Golan’s advice is for Jacob to go and check out the crime scene, when Jacob goes he takes his father and Aunt Susie to sort through his grandpa’s things. While sorting Jacob finds an old cigar box of his grandpa’s in it there are a lot of old photos of a contortionist, a set of twins and a little girl trapped in a bottle. Jacob soon turns Sixteen and for his birthday he gets a camera, keys to a car and from his aunt Susie which is actually from his grandfather a book called “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”. When Jacob Started reading the book he finds a letter written to grandfather from Headmistress Alma LeFay Peregrine and she talked about the island and how someone named “E’ misses him. The return address is to Cairnholm Island, Wales and Jacob wondered if this was the island that his grandpa meant. Jacob asked if he could go, but his parents thought it was ridiculous but Dr. Golan thought The trip would help his “condition”, so his father agreed to go with
When Jacob and Ricky got to grandpa Portman’s house the door was closed and locked, Jacob found a key to the door and went inside leaving Ricky at the door waiting. When Jacob went inside he called out for his grandpa but did not get a reply. Jacob walked throughout the house, turning on lights trying to find Grandpa Portman but had no such luck. Jacob walked toward the entrance to the backyard and saw that the screen had a large scratch in it, Jacob walked toward the door and saw a flashlight abandoned by his grandpa at the edge of the woods. Jacob called out for Ricky and ran into the woods to find his grandpa. After a while of looking for grandpa Portman they finally found him laying down, barely alive and bleeding to death. When Jacob tried to move his grandpa he told him, “Go to the island, Yakob. Here it’s not safe” “Go to the island ““You’ll be safe there, promise me “‘find the bird in the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave. September third, 1940” ‘Emerson- the letter. Tell them what happened, Yakob.” With that grandpa Portman died in Jacob’s …show more content…
Golan convinced Jacob that the creature had been nothing more than his imagination; and the trauma of his Grandfather’s had made him see something that wasn’t really there. There was a name for Jacob’s condition, “Acute Stress Reaction”. Jacob staring getting twitchy and paranoid, he was bad at interacting with people to. Dr. Golan’s advice is for Jacob to go and check out the crime scene, when Jacob goes he takes his father and Aunt Susie to sort through his grandpa’s things. While sorting Jacob finds an old cigar box of his grandpa’s in it there are a lot of old photos of a contortionist, a set of twins and a little girl trapped in a bottle. Jacob soon turns Sixteen and for his birthday he gets a camera, keys to a car and from his aunt Susie which is actually from his grandfather a book called “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”. When Jacob Started reading the book he finds a letter written to grandfather from Headmistress Alma LeFay Peregrine and she talked about the island and how someone named “E’ misses him. The return address is to Cairnholm Island, Wales and Jacob wondered if this was the island that his grandpa meant. Jacob asked if he could go, but his parents thought it was ridiculous but Dr. Golan thought The trip would help his “condition”, so his father agreed to go with