Lit. Analysis Remix.!

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

1. This book is about 16 year old Jacob and his journey to discover his grandfathers haunting past. After finding his grandfather murdered in the forest, Jacob has terrible nightmares and anxiety. His family signs him up for therapy and the therapist soon convinces him the only way to beat his fear is to face is head on, by visiting the orphanage his grandfather once lived in once his family sent him there to have a chance to survive the mass genocide in Germany. Jacob goes to the island which his grandfather grew up and finds the orphanage his grandfather had described, but everyone's dead? The orphanage was destroyed from a Nazi missile that happened to hit it. Jacob feels discouraged and feels like giving up but something tells him to keep searching and he ends up in a time loop back to the day before the orphanage was destroyed and meets Headmistress Peregrine and her "peculiar children." All these children obtain special powers and Jacob learns he is also peculiar. He can see the children's invisible enemies, otherwise known as wights. As the story continues Jacob finds out the Wights had found the loop and taken Miss Peregrine hostage. Jacob and the others have no choice but to save her before it's all to late.



2. This is a little tricky, in a sense it doesn't really have one on the "outside" it's something you have to dig for. If i had to state what the theme was meant to be i'd have to say its closest to stating that sometimes you can't find what your looking for through other peoples discoveries, you have to go out o the way to discover it yourself.


3.The tone was rather suspenseful. This book is considered a horror and some of the strange scenes and phrasing can be rather odd. When he describes the wights the author manages to make it feel as if you have a Wight sitting right beside you.! And don't even get me started about that creepy house, the entire time i was wondering if anyone was there, or if it was haunted, if there were any bodies or even if someone was watching him. My fingers were so tempted to speed through the pages just to kill the high range of suspense that was accumulating during that moment.

4.
*Conflict: This book was based around multiple conflicts with Jacob, he was up against his family, friends, even himself.
*Symbolism: There wasn't much symbolism but there was quite a bit. Miss Peregrine was named after the breed of bird she is, Wights were known as Wights because of their milky white eyes.
*Setting: This book would be nothing without its strange settings and uncomfortable atmosphere. The settings the author chooses are so realistic they become surreal it pulls you into the book quite well.
*Style: As i stated earlier, this book was written in a very peculiar manner, i haven't read too many books with the same flow as this book. The flow of the novel was so off and curved yet it still managed to roll on it's way as if it were straight.
*Tone: Suspenseful and creepy. If the author would have read this all "happy go lucky." i don't think i would have continued to read this story. There was a lot of confusion and pain going on with the main character and it really showed.
*Dramatic: I guess you could say there were a few things the reader would/could know about the character(s) before they figured it out. I became very aware that Jacob was "peculiar" from the get go.
*Cosmic: There were some semi-cosmic things going down in this book. The fact that Jacob was peculiar only meant that if he didn't stay with Miss Peregrine he would more likely be killed by the Wights.
*Crisis: This book was full of crisis's but i'd have to say the biggest one was when Jacob had to choose between leaving everything he ever new behind for the chance of a new beginning.
*Resolution: I didn't add this because the book included it, rather because it lacked it. There were many loose ends at the end of the book.

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1. Indirect:
*Jacobs mother loved to show off her house and all the new things in it.
*Jacobs father has never finished any one of his projects
Direct:


2. Ehh, i'd like to say he focused  more on syntax than diction but there was definitely a little bit of both. The structure of the words makes the story suspenseful and the way they are spoken make it easier to see through the characters perspective.

3. Jacob is most definitely dynamic, he learns new things, meets new people and builds new trust with different characters. Throughout the book Jacob is still creating who he is.

4. I didn't really have a personal connection to this book and i'm rather glad i didn't! I'm most definitely not a fan for the "unknown" when were referring to anything supernatural! The whole book was rather creepy, but they did remind me of "X-men." It was like the peculiar's were mutants, not every peculiar gives birth to a peculiar and not every mutant gives birth to a mutant, many normal people have them. (I'm still speaking of all of this in a X-men points of view.) Peculiar's are also looked down upon by society as the same for X-men. Peculiar's also possessed special powers just as the X-men do. And of course, Peculiar's have people out there trying to destroy them the same as many want to destroy the X-men.