Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Character Analysis

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Ransom Riggs- the author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children -believes that bad things can change us for the good. Such as here the main character (Jacob) lied to his grandfather saying that they were fine when he believed they weren’t okay. ¨It was the old paranoia. We were going to be fine. That was twice in one day I had lied to him.¨ This shows that good things can come out of bad things, hence it is bad to lie however if it keeps his grandfather from having more of a panic it helps rather than bringing him and the situation down. Not only that but Jacob is told by his best friend he needs to see a headshrinker (therapist) and fights back, but then he comes to his senses and realizes he needs help. ¨You mean a headshrinker?!¨…

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