Ransom Riggs is the author of the novel, Miss.Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. After researching some background notes it became very interesting to discover that this book is actually a movie in the making being directed by the remarkable Tim Burton in early 2016. This novel is based on a 16 year old boy who goes by the name of Jacob. Jacob faces a horrible tragedy one day when his grandfather suddenly disappears and is actually found deceased. His grandfather was known for being peculiar in his own way through his storytelling. Jacob questions his grandfather's stories and the truth that lies behind them so he ventures on a journey to a remote island so he can confirm the authenticity of the stories. Shortly after being on this remote
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Acknowledging that peculiar means different from the usual or normal the reader can grasp sort of an idea that this book is about to be anything but normal. While the layout of this book is very intriguing the overall sequence of characters is strikingly unique. It may seem that Miss.Peregrine is the only unusual character due to the title but throughout the book you become aware of how many different oddities exist. The characters in this book are all monstrosities who acquire certain traits that set them apart from the general public. Such examples would be a levitating girl or the invisible boy. What sets this book apart from other fiction books is that Riggs uses actual photographs to give a visible idea of what the children in Miss.Peregrine’s orphanage look like. The extraordinary thing is that the black and white photographs that Riggs uses throughout the novel were found by him in people’s collections. The use of these photo’s helped shape the overall storyline and provided us with visible evidence to further interest the reader. Which in addition brings the reader to question What if these photo’s weren’t optical illusions at all and if not then what are the stories behind these
Acknowledging that peculiar means different from the usual or normal the reader can grasp sort of an idea that this book is about to be anything but normal. While the layout of this book is very intriguing the overall sequence of characters is strikingly unique. It may seem that Miss.Peregrine is the only unusual character due to the title but throughout the book you become aware of how many different oddities exist. The characters in this book are all monstrosities who acquire certain traits that set them apart from the general public. Such examples would be a levitating girl or the invisible boy. What sets this book apart from other fiction books is that Riggs uses actual photographs to give a visible idea of what the children in Miss.Peregrine’s orphanage look like. The extraordinary thing is that the black and white photographs that Riggs uses throughout the novel were found by him in people’s collections. The use of these photo’s helped shape the overall storyline and provided us with visible evidence to further interest the reader. Which in addition brings the reader to question What if these photo’s weren’t optical illusions at all and if not then what are the stories behind these