Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children By Ransom Riggs

Gothic literature applies to all works of writing with dark and chilling elements much like Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Gothic elements such as loss, monsters, and psychological issues are connected to Riggs’ novel, but also to well-known gothic short stories like “The Raven”, “The Black Cat”, by Edgar Allan Poe, and “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga. For example, the famous poem “The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, share the same gothic element of loss. In “The Raven,” the man in the story pours “sorrow for the lost Lenore.” (Poe 438). Similarly, in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the main character Jacob mourns the loss of his grandfather’s death at the beginning of the story. Both these characters’ losses haunt them, and in Poe’s poem, is represented by the raven. In Riggs’ novel, Jacob is “plagued by wake-up-screaming nightmares” (Riggs 39) postmortem to the death of his grandfather. Loss affects the lives of both the characters, and is what the stories are based on. …show more content…
In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Grandpa Portman tells young Jacob stories about the monsters, or the “Hollowgasts,” which foreshadows his death. Both of these works use monsters to show the gothic style, while using the theme to elaborate the stories. Therefore, monsters play a big role in both stories, and shapes the course of the