Please note that while the cover is simplistic, it is intended to be as such. The novel contains a multitude of vintage photographs which are both creepy and shrouded in mystery. This was the theme I tried to capture with this CD cover.
Analysis: The first reason as to why I chose this song is that the music/beat is uplifting and almost innocent, in a sense. This is reflective of the fact that all of the main characters in the novel Hollow City by Ransom Riggs are children or teenagers, an often carefree and happy demographic. Secondly, I chose the song Waiting on the World to Change because throughout the entirety of the novel (the second installment of a three part series by Riggs), the characters’ relatively happy ways of life are threatened …show more content…
Although the peculiar children are terrified of the wights and their lesser, monstrous forms called hollows, they have enough courage together to fight for Miss Peregrine and each other. They will not go down without a fight. The line,“Taking over this town they should worry,” can be related to the fact that wights have immersed themselves into society; they are everywhere, in essence taking over the town (i.e. England, even though it is not a town). “Howling ghosts” are like the hollows. These next lyrics are slightly abstract in their relation to the novel, but that is what makes them more meaningful, “And in the winter night sky ships are sailing, looking down on these bright, blue city lights.” In an early scene of the novel, wights in zeppelins (the “sky ships”) spot the peculiar children (the bright, blue lights; the “good” characters) on the beach below and chaos ensues from …show more content…
2-1 is a song solely about things not being what they seem, and that is why I chose this song to represent this theme of the novel. Early in the storyline, the peculiar children come across a time loop full of peculiar animals. A seemingly ordinary dog possess the intelligence of a human, and seemingly ordinary chicken eggs are actually as explosive as bombs. Also, the tales within a book that Olive likes to read are not only tales, but coded stories which, if analyzed carefully, can reveal the locations of other time loops. As well, when the peculiar children meet a seemingly ordinary band of gypsies, they soon discover that many of the gypsies are peculiars. Finally, the biggest revelation and plot twist comes at the climax of the novel. Miss Peregrine, who the children have been trying to save for the majority of the novel, is not Miss Peregrine. Who the children thought was their ymbryne was actually her brother Caul, a wight who kidnaps all of them but Jacob and
Analysis: The first reason as to why I chose this song is that the music/beat is uplifting and almost innocent, in a sense. This is reflective of the fact that all of the main characters in the novel Hollow City by Ransom Riggs are children or teenagers, an often carefree and happy demographic. Secondly, I chose the song Waiting on the World to Change because throughout the entirety of the novel (the second installment of a three part series by Riggs), the characters’ relatively happy ways of life are threatened …show more content…
Although the peculiar children are terrified of the wights and their lesser, monstrous forms called hollows, they have enough courage together to fight for Miss Peregrine and each other. They will not go down without a fight. The line,“Taking over this town they should worry,” can be related to the fact that wights have immersed themselves into society; they are everywhere, in essence taking over the town (i.e. England, even though it is not a town). “Howling ghosts” are like the hollows. These next lyrics are slightly abstract in their relation to the novel, but that is what makes them more meaningful, “And in the winter night sky ships are sailing, looking down on these bright, blue city lights.” In an early scene of the novel, wights in zeppelins (the “sky ships”) spot the peculiar children (the bright, blue lights; the “good” characters) on the beach below and chaos ensues from …show more content…
2-1 is a song solely about things not being what they seem, and that is why I chose this song to represent this theme of the novel. Early in the storyline, the peculiar children come across a time loop full of peculiar animals. A seemingly ordinary dog possess the intelligence of a human, and seemingly ordinary chicken eggs are actually as explosive as bombs. Also, the tales within a book that Olive likes to read are not only tales, but coded stories which, if analyzed carefully, can reveal the locations of other time loops. As well, when the peculiar children meet a seemingly ordinary band of gypsies, they soon discover that many of the gypsies are peculiars. Finally, the biggest revelation and plot twist comes at the climax of the novel. Miss Peregrine, who the children have been trying to save for the majority of the novel, is not Miss Peregrine. Who the children thought was their ymbryne was actually her brother Caul, a wight who kidnaps all of them but Jacob and