The Devil And Tom Walker Gothic Analysis

The Gothic Elements in Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs can be compared to the three stories “The Devil and Tom Walker”, “The Black Cat”, and “Feather Pillow” by using of elements through the description of The Supernatural, Violence, and Nightmares. In “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving uses the Gothic elements of the supernatural and the paranormal, it can be compared to the book Peregrine’s home for peculiar children. “But had been so much accustomed to witches and goblins and tricks of the Devil, in all kinds of shapes from the first settlement of the colony and they were not so much horror- struck as might have been expected” (Irving 332). Is shows that in the time of which the narrator wrote this story that dealing with the devil was of the norm. “ We just kept walking the girl who could make fire with her hands and the invisible boy and me. We walked through the woods, where the path was wide and clear as any trail in a national park” (Riggs …show more content…
He uses the Gothic elements of Nightmares- the fear of monsters killing you, to symbolize the fear in his short story. “Her nightly terrors were now advancing in the shape of monsters who would drag themselves to the bes, and clamber laboriously up the eiderdown” (Quiroga 2). A long side that, “I was plagued by wake-up-screaming nightmares… I couldn’t close my eyes without seeing it- that tentacle mouth horror in the woods” (Riggs 39). Both of the these quotes establish nightmares to provide a sense of fear from personal experience. For instance in “The Feather Pillow” Alicia is bitten repeatedly by a venomous creature that ultimately ends up causing her death. However in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Jacob is haunted by a creature that he saw in the woods the night of his beloved Grandfathers death. It Haunted him so badly that when nobody would believe him he had to go in search for his own