Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is an award-winning novel by Ransom Riggs. I overall find it to be an outstanding work of literature. Riggs creates an intriguing story through captivating prose paired with a peculiar collection of photographs. Yet most of all, this book is intriguing to me due to its relatable themes. Through its motifs of time, hope, and belonging, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs creates a captivating tale that readers will relate to.
Right from the prologue, the book is a captivating tale, starting in the first sentence, where we get a first introduction to the relatable protagonist Jacob Portman. I tend to lead an ordinary life like Jacob had. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
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Jacob meets Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children and explores their hidden world that he’d been too ignorant to previously notice. The kids in the loop, as they call it, may live the same day again and again, but their world is new and exciting to Jacob. As Jacob returns the next day to the loop, he says, “I sparked with excitement… at the thought of the day that lay ahead, full of endless possibility. Though in a million superficial ways it would be identical to the day before- the same breeze would blow and the same tree limbs would fall- my experience of it would be new” (184). Jacob is also learning to make his own decisions. Soon he would be returning home, but Jacob realizes that he has the choice to choose a more extraordinary life for himself: “I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it” (181). The reader goes on an amazingly creative and dangerous fantasy adventure as Jacob attempts to save this new home he found and his new friends. All the ideas, even the time travel, are well-integrated and thought-through, presented in a way in which the whimsy is believable. Furthermore, Riggs keeps the prose fast-paced, interesting, and understandable, creating an amazing yet believable story to where pages are flying