If you look for a book about mystery and suspense, Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children is a perfect choice for you. All began when Jacob a boy who lived in Florida grew up listening and believing all the stories Grandpa Portman told him about his life in a orphanage with peculiar children and monsters they used to fight, on an island called Cairnholm. Grandpa Portman used to show Jacob pictures of the kids on the island, at first Jacob believed every single word his grandpa told him but years later he told his grandfather he didn´t believe in his stories nor the pictures. While Jacob grow to a teen Grandpa became a little insane at least thats what everyone thought. When Jacob was 15 Grandpa Portman called him and was very desperate talking about the monsters were coming to get him, Jacob as always thought it was some of his weird stories but he called his dad just to tell him what had happen on the phone. Jacob´s father ask him to check in his grandfather,when Jacob arrived he found all the house a complete mess but he still looked for his grandfather. When he was about to leave with no idea where his grandfather was he found a flashlight on the floor facing the woods, he thought maybe his grandfather dropped in his way to the woods so he went to find Grandpa Portman.When he was deep in the woods he saw his grandfather in the floor dying his last words were something about Jacob going to the island and finding the bird because his not safe there anymore, Jacob as always thought his grandfather was crazy while he called the cops and sob he saw a face in the woods but it had six tongues and it was tall and thin. After all that happen Jacobs parents send him to a therapist named Dr. Golan because he was having nightmares about that monster and he kept thinking what his grandfather last words meant.Sometime had past it was Jacobs birthday he was turning 16 he wanted for this birthday to go to the island even though he was pretty sure there was nothing there but he wanted to see what the orphanage and the island looked like. His parents didnt let him go so he was really mad at them. One week later Grandpa Portmans house was about to be sell so he went to help his dad and his aunt to clean the house, he suddenly remember another thing his grandfather said one moment before passing away they were Ralph Waldo Emerson. He thought it was someone who lived in the orphanage with him so he took the opportunity to clean the house to find something about this guy. On the house he found letters from friends but non from Ralph Waldo Emerson, suddenly he knock a box and some books fell out one of them catch his eye the title was Words of Ralph Waldo Emerson he then understood something important was in that book. While turning the pages he found a letter it was from Headmistress Alma LeFay Peregrine then he figure that peregrine is a bird so that was what he meant by finding the bird he wanted Jacob to find Miss Peregrine. That is it for now but i want to see what happens next.
this is one of the
pictures Grandpa
Portman show Jacob
´´´My solution was to stop leaving the house. For weeks I refused even to venture into the driveway to collect the morning paper. I slept in a tangle of blankets on the laundry room floor, the only part of the house with no windows and also a door that locked from the inside´´ ( Riggs, 39)
In this quote we notice how bad was Jacob when his grandfather died and how his nightmares were affecting him and with this quote I question if Mr. Golan is doing a good job helping Jacob. If Jacob is really getting help from Mr. Golan I am sure he would be better by now and he certainly isn´t.
I would like more backstory of Grandpa Portman and learn more about this peculiar children and Miss Peregrine i actually want to know more about every character. For example we still dont know why or at what age Grandpa Portman was sent to the orphanage. I am really excited to know what Jacob really saw on the woods maybe it wasnt even real and if it was real what was that. Cant wait to read more.
