Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children: Chapter Analysis

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Journal entry 4

Chapter four, in the book of Miss Peregrine's home for Peculiar children Jacob was in a wreck, he was disappointed and broken down. Jacob goes to his dad to ask about the death of his grandfather. In 2012 my grandpa died as well. We didn't know the cause of his death and still to this day we still don't know. Doctors tested his body after he had died and they haven't came to a conclusion. My family and I went through family history to try and find a conclusion to his death. When Jacob “Asks his father” I can relate to it because of what my family went through.
His father said he had given up on everything a long time ago. He gave up on trying to understand the death of his grandfather. Later on in the book they had remembered

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