Peculiar

In Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Jacob Portman sets off on a journey to find the answers to his grandfather’s mysterious last words. For the past few month, Jacob was plagued with terrifying nightmares of the same monster he saw on the day of his grandfather’s death. Jacob’s psychiatrist, Dr. Golan, suggests that he goes to the island where his grandfather was raised to find the answers to his question. Jacob and his father goes to Cairnholm Island, in Wales, and Jacob finds Miss Peregrine’s house out in the island’s bog. On the way, he finds Emma Bloom, a girl that could possibly be the answers to his questions. She leads him to a cairn that turns out to be the loop of September 3, 1940. He enters the past and learns about the peculiar children with strange powers/talents. One day, a wight, who is actually Dr. Golan, kidnaps Miss Peregrine and her mentor, Miss Avocet. Both Jacob and the children went on an adventure to defeat Dr. Golan and his hollowgast, and save both ymbrynes. The quote reflects on…

through unfamiliar paths to an uninhabited island, or so he thinks. He comes across the abandoned orphanage and some of the peculiar children his grandfather had told him about. A daily trip from his hotel and back to this “quarantined” mansion housing children with magical powers, unique gifts and unsettling physical features gives Jacob the opportunity to learn more about this “imaginary characters” and meet the infamous Miss Peregrine, schoolmistress to the Home of Peculiar Children. Through…

in circuses. Abe used to tell Jacob fascinating stories about peculiar children from his childhood. Jacob believed all his grandpa’s stories until…

freedoms or rights as promised by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which had all been well-established and implemented by 1820, the beginning of the Southern predicament. Prior to the decisive and divisive Civil War, to counter increasing Northern and federal opposition, the Southern supporters of slavery had put forth arguments involving slavery’s nature and role in society, slaves’ rights and freedoms, and the economic demand for slavery. Together,…

Entry 4 What did the Peculiar Institution consist of? The new peaceful institution-like nation had cotton as the main crop and social classes with the rise of wealth. However, the whites still supported slavery, with the north leading in the slave economy. Mixed reactions evolved towards the abolition of slavery, but most of the whites supported it and loved owning slaves. By 1860, the number of free blacks was almost half a million. The freed slaves exercised their African culture including…

Ramachandran begins his book with snippets of peculiar medical cases. The stories are fascinating because the brain is fragile, yet strong; damage to a particular part of the brain can lead to the expression of an odd behavior, yet the person can remain rational. Ramachandran (1998) expresses that these type of cases usually do not get much attention from doctors (i.e., neurologists and psychiatrists) and there has not been much investigation about the causes of their behaviors (p. 2). However,…

The Book, Peculiar Treasures by Robbin Jones Gunn, is truly a great book. The story is fiction, and takes place at Rancho Corona University in Southern California. The protagonist of the story is Katie Weldon. Katie Weldon is now a Senior in college, and she is starting summer school to make up for some credits at the beginning of the book. Katie is not happy about taking summer school, but she wants to graduate on time so she is doing anything that will finish her goal. She still hasn’t…

After reading Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children I found that my favorite quote, from the prologue section of the book, was after Jacob begins to doubt his grandfather 's stories. "It wasn 't until a few years later that my dad explained it to me: Grandpa had told him some of the same stories when he was a kid, and they weren 't lies, exactly, but exaggerated versions of the truth - because the story of Grandpa Portman 's childhood wasn 't a fairy tale at all. It was a horror story."…

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children When first beginning to read this novel the reader may think that it may be a terrible book but in actuality the book is a great book because it has an unexpected plot and a great theme. In, the beginning of Miss Peregrine’s, Jacob is at work as a shelf stocker at the family owned business Smart Aid. Jacob soon is getting yelled at once again by his boss Shelley, because he messed on stacking adult diapers in the form of the Empire State building.…

In the first 133 pages of Hollow City, the second novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, we are introduced to Jacob and his peculiar friends, who are fleeing the wights (hollowgast monsters who consume the eyes of peculiar children so they can become human). After a long and treacherous journey by oars, the group finally found land, where they continued to flee their pursuers. They made camp in the woods, and together read a story about a giant who turned into stone in the middle of a…