Miss Peregrine's Home For Urgent Children Analysis

Choices can be very arduous, especially if they are life changing ones. In the book Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, the main character, Jacob, has a to make a decision that will turn his world upside-down. Since Jacob has been on an island near Wales after his grandfather died, he began to realize his grandpa was not crazy, as everyone thought. All of his life, his grandpa told extravagant stories of children who could do magical things, like levitate or lift thousands of pounds. Jacob found himself going through a loop and into the world of peculiars. Just as he thought he was putting puzzle pieces together, he finds out that he is a peculiar himself. Jacob is able to see monsters that hunt his kind. They are the monsters that had murdered his grandpa, and are …show more content…
It becomes even more complicated when everything you thought you knew was completely changed. Jacob goes through this frightening but exhilarating experience. Before he spent time on the island, he was kind of a kid who just knew that he did not have an exciting life ahead of him. He described his life as boring and plain. Because he went to the island, he discovered his true identity. He was surprisingly peculiar. Jacob was stunned to hear this, because he did not have any known power. Soon he considered the fact that no one was supposed to see the monsters, but he could. Later, he realized that although it was not noticeably a stimulating power, it was crucial for the survival of peculiar island communities lives. Miss Peregrine tells him, “I need your help. You are the only one among us who can go outside the loop with arousing suspicion. So long as you’re with us, and you insist upon traveling back and forth, I need you to watch for new arrivals to the island and report them to me (Riggs 266).” He had an extraordinary job, and it was significant. It turned out that his identity was much more important then he alleged it to