Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children

Certain characters may spend their entire lives searching for answers to life’s mysteries, while some accept that mysteries and turmoil are a part of their own identity. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children is about an adolescent boy named Jacob, whose grandfather died in a rather obscure way. This book revolves around Jacob’s grieving process as he searches for answers about his grandpa’s death. While traveling to his grandfather’s childhood home, Jacob finds a little more than he anticipates during his expedition. Sarah’s Key is a novel including two different stories; one story is about a young girl named Sarah. Her story shows a treacherous experience through a pre-holocaust roundup called Vel' d'Hiv. The other narration is about …show more content…
Sarah is oblivious to the reason why this has been done to her, but she speculates it has to do with the large gold star printed with the word “Jew” that has been sewn onto her blouse. Sarah is taken in the Vel’ d’Hiv round up in Paris, France. Days before she is taken from her home, her father goes into hiding, and her mother worries unceasingly. Sarah does not know why her family is acting in strange ways, but she does not question it and goes about her day playing with her younger brother and doing normal ten-year-old activities. When the police come to her house she does not think much of it, not knowing the true danger she and her family are in. She is being suspended over a pit of snakes without even knowing it. ☺ She locks her brother in a secret hiding place and leaves her apartment with her mother and father. After walking through the moonlit streets of Paris escorted by the French police, she was maliciously shoved into a transport train and driven to a holding camp. The train car is crowded with people smelling of god-knows-what. The car is crawling with lice and disease. Young children are crying for their mothers, but no one can hear their cries over the sound of train wheels on the tracks. Cold wind is blowing into the car causing sickness and disease. People are frantic, trying to move in the two …show more content…
She lives with her husband, Bertrand, and her daughter Zoë. Julia is experiencing trouble in her relationship with her husband and her husband’s family. After a poor-rooted remark from her husband, Julia says: “A recent conversation with Isabelle came back to me. Julia, do you put you with Bertrand because you’re afraid of losing him?” (De Rosnay 52). It can be concluded that Julia is searching for love but in all of the wrong places. She deeply wants to be accepted by her husband, but he can be classified as audacious and close-minded to her ideas. He is also very critical of things she is passionate about, like her journaling about the Vel' d'Hiv round up. Julia also seeks love and approval from her husband’s family. Julia has had many miscarriages before and after conceiving her daughter Zoë. Her husband and his family are longing for her to have another child, though they may not be outright and say it to her. Bertrand’s family is also biased about Julia because of her American upbringing. They have never truly seen her as a part of the family because of this. Adding to their discomfort, Julia kept her maiden name of Jarmond, and did not take her husband’s last name. Her husband’s family saw this as an act of ‘feminism’ and did not strongly approve of it. Julia just wants to be loved and accepted by her husband and his family, and she feels it is nearly