Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Essay

The novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, takes place throughout two different time periods in Cairnholm Island, Wales, UK; present day and the past time period during World War II in the year 1940. Jacob Portman, a main character in the novel, is a male syndrigast, in other words, a peculiar who has the advantage of observing Hollowgasts. Ymbrynes, female syndrigasts, such as Miss Peregrine, a main character who takes care of peculiar children, can manipulate time and transform into a peregrine falcon. Now, time loops are occurrences in which an ymbryne can conduct, where a past date exists and repeats itself, in this case, it is September third, 1940. In the summer of 1908, a myriad of peculiars believed that

Wights appear to physically be human and are capable of impersonating numerous and different disguises as the situation demands except, they don’t have any peculiar abilities. Emma Bloom, a main character in the novel who is an 88-year-old female syndrigast, has the peculiarity of being able to maneuver fire. Other peculiar characters were included in the novel such as Hugh Apiston, a male syndrigast with the peculiarity of commanding and protecting bees who live within his stomach, Millard Nullings, a male syndrigast with the peculiarity of being invisible, Bronwyn Bruntley, a female syndrigast with the peculiarity of having super strength, and a bountiful of more characters! The protagonist in this book is Jacob Portman and the antagonist is Dr. Golan. The central conflict of this novel is the experience in which Jacob endures through the pain of his grandfather’s death, both mentally and physically mainly because he is forced to comprehend certain facts about his grandfather’s hidden life. Of course there were other conflicts such as having Jacob decide whether to stay with Miss Peregrine and his friends in the time loop or stay in the present day with his family, man vs. man man vs. self and man vs.