Miss Peregrine
In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, a novel written by the well-known author Ransom Riggs, Jacob Portman is searching for his late grandfather’s past, as well as his own future. At an orphanage on a British island, he discovers a mysterious and magical world within a time-loop set in the 1940s. Jacob receives unexpected help and support from the children living at the orphanage, and especially from their headmistress Miss Peregrine.
Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine is a clever, protective and brave middle-aged woman. She is a shapeshifter, and can turn herself into a Peregrine falcon. In addition, Miss Peregrine knows how to manipulate time, and the very time-loop she and the peculiar children live in, is her masterpiece. …show more content…
Moreover, Miss Peregrine is protective and watches over her children with a bird’s eye view. One of the greater dangers in the peculiar world are the hollowgasts. A hollowgast is an evil peculiar, transformed into an invisible creature. “We call them hollowgast – because their hearts, their souls are empty” – Miss Peregrine
Knowing their only instinct is to kill other peculiars; Miss Peregrine travelled the world to find defenseless peculiar children. Later, she brought them to the orphanage in her time-loop, and raised them as her own. However, Miss Peregrine protects Jacob from several hollowgasts on his way to the island, knowing he is also a peculiar child.
Furthermore, Miss Peregrine is brave, and will always put others before herself. Despite the dangers awaiting her outside the time-loop, Miss Peregrine ventures out every now and then to locate lonely, peculiar children to protect. “We ymbrynes must scour the countryside for young peculiars in need, steer clear of dangers, and keep our wards steeped in the lore of our people” – Miss
In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, a novel written by the well-known author Ransom Riggs, Jacob Portman is searching for his late grandfather’s past, as well as his own future. At an orphanage on a British island, he discovers a mysterious and magical world within a time-loop set in the 1940s. Jacob receives unexpected help and support from the children living at the orphanage, and especially from their headmistress Miss Peregrine.
Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine is a clever, protective and brave middle-aged woman. She is a shapeshifter, and can turn herself into a Peregrine falcon. In addition, Miss Peregrine knows how to manipulate time, and the very time-loop she and the peculiar children live in, is her masterpiece. …show more content…
Moreover, Miss Peregrine is protective and watches over her children with a bird’s eye view. One of the greater dangers in the peculiar world are the hollowgasts. A hollowgast is an evil peculiar, transformed into an invisible creature. “We call them hollowgast – because their hearts, their souls are empty” – Miss Peregrine
Knowing their only instinct is to kill other peculiars; Miss Peregrine travelled the world to find defenseless peculiar children. Later, she brought them to the orphanage in her time-loop, and raised them as her own. However, Miss Peregrine protects Jacob from several hollowgasts on his way to the island, knowing he is also a peculiar child.
Furthermore, Miss Peregrine is brave, and will always put others before herself. Despite the dangers awaiting her outside the time-loop, Miss Peregrine ventures out every now and then to locate lonely, peculiar children to protect. “We ymbrynes must scour the countryside for young peculiars in need, steer clear of dangers, and keep our wards steeped in the lore of our people” – Miss