Mrs Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Character Analysis

Dakota Mueller

Mrs Beard

English 10C, Hour 5

May 9, 2018

Extraordinarily Unknown

“ I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.” Mrs Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Jacob is the main character and protagonist in this story, who thought that the stories his grandfather told him were just fairy tales. Until the stories come true, he is sucked into this new world that changes everything that he thought he knew. This causes Jacobs personality to develop as he learns to comprehend his new world. Jacobs character is shaped by the challenges that he faces causing him to become more aware of who he is and what he is capable of doing

“I tried to feel lucky for the safe and unextraordinary one that I had done nothing to deserve.” (Riggs,15). What Jacob is explaining here is that he doesn’t deserve such a safe life, because Jacob doesn’t believe he can sacrifice like his grandfather had just to keep his life. This illustrates that Jacob is insecure about himself and how he has led his life until that point. The first chapter goes on to explain how Jacob’s family owns this store chain and how he wanted to get fired. He leaves his part-time job to go check on his grandfather, the reader is introduced to Ricky and their relationship is explained. “He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.” (Riggs, 22). Jacob states how his relationship is with Ricky and goes on to say he’s his only friend. Jacob is very socially awkward. He doesn’t avoid contact with people, but he doesn’t know how to interact with people, causing him to have a relationship with Ricky that isn’t healthy, because it’s the only friend he has. The protagonist got to know the people in this world. Jacob even got to learn more about his late grandfather, “‘He could see the