Who Is Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children?

I recently read a book titled Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, and I think it is an exceptional example of a fantasy book. The book is about a young boy named Jacob Portman who is fascinated by stories that his grandfather (Abe Portman) would tell him at such a young age. Later on, when he grows older, Jacob assumes that all the stories that his grandfather told him must be fiction. But later when a horrific tragedy occurs and Abe Portman dies, Jacob questions what to believe. To reassure himself, Jacob persuades his parents and makes them visit the island his grandfather always talked about in his stories. What Jacob soon discovers about his grandfather and past shocks him and leaves us all speechless. As I stated …show more content…
Some examples of this would be the characters Jacob, Emma, and Miss Peregrine. The protagonist in the book is Jacob Portman. Jacob is a 15 year old boy who works at his mother’s store, helps out his grandfather, and goes to school like a typical person. Seems ordinary, right? Well, when his grandfather dies mysteriously, he goes on a quest to find out what happened. On his journey, he discovers things he never knew like how he and his grandfather actually have the power to see strange creatures called hollows. He is important because this power is very rare and almost no others can do this. This gives him an advantage and explains how he contributes to making the novel fantasy. Another character in the book is Emma. Emma is a very peculiar, and cautious character. When we are first introduced to her, she thinks Jacob is one of the menacing creatures, a hollow, who can kill peculiar children like herself. She is considered to be odd because of her power to generate fire with her bare hands. People who have these uncanny abilities are kept hidden from casual people. She is one of the several children to stay with Miss Peregrine, the owner of the haven, who keeps the strange children. Although Emma is uncertain of Jacob at first, she comes to support Jacob, introduces him to Miss Peregrine, and even forms a relationship with him. Emma is one of the prime and foremost …show more content…
In the book, the setting mostly takes place in a house on an island christened Cairnholm. The island offers a very strange and isolated panorama. It contains a very undersized amount of people in it and has unusual but very constant foggy weather. Although the perspective isn’t very pleasing, Cairnholm has a lot of activity going on. The house also appears very unappealing and distasteful to common people. Only peculiars, people who have strange powers, can enter the loop and see the magnificent house as it truly is. The loop is a very important factor to the house. It keeps the children safe, and if the children were to step out of the loop they would age in a matter of hours outside and die. In this way, it provides in making the book