Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

In “The Haunting of Hill House”, Jackson uses a third person point of view in order to create an ambiguous feeling during the supernatural experiences which leads to confusion of whether the novel falls under the sub-genre female gothic, or not. Jackson starts the novel with a very powerful quote: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” (1). That famously known quote is very ambiguous and evokes suspense. The sub-genre female gothic conventions consist of an old haunted house, mystery and suspense, supernatural experiences, women distress during a transition to adulthood or motherhood, repressed emotions, an aspect of feminism, heroic male figure, dark, and horror. The Haunting of Hill House consists of some of the female gothic conventions but lacks others. Viewing the supernatural experiences from a third person point of view allows the reader to have an insight of the situations.

When people teach about the “Discovery of America”, most of the time it is a general view of what happened that day. However, recordings of diaries that give humanity a further understanding on the matter still exist and can be analyzed. These recordings are personal experiences from explorers of the New World. John Smith and William Bradford were explorers of America that recorded their trip to the new continent and their encounter with the Indians. The General History and Plymouth Plantation are based on real experiences that have their similarities and differences on what happened during the discovery of America.

In Wisconsin, the history of the land has a various number of stories. The land of Wisconsin has been Americanized throughout the years by European settlers within the area. However, the land used to be owned by different Native American tribes, such as the Oneida Indian Nation and the Forest County Potawatomi tribe. The history, culture, and tribal sovereignty of these two tribes compare and contrast with each other but remain strong to this day.

Tim Burton is a very famous director that has many exceptional works. Some of his greatest include: Beetlejuice, The Nightmare before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie’s Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, (most all of them have Johnny Depp in them). There is a lot of talk going on right now about Tim Burton’s new movie, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”. Tim Burton is an incredible director with award winning films, so what makes this one any different? Burton’s newest movie is having quite the battle on Twitter. There has been an outrage because of the all-white cast in the movie. Everyone acting in the movie is white, except Samuel L. Jackson. Many people have been tweeting about how wrong Burton was for being so discriminating

Jeff Kinney is an American children author, actor, producer, cartoonist, and a game designer. He is most famous for the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid,wrote by himself (Jeff Kinney).

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a science fiction novel that was presented to the reading world in 2011 by Ransom Riggs. This year the characters of Riggs’s novel made their way to the big screen under the direction of Tim Burton. While critics rave about the wonders of Burton’s skills to transform the novel into a believable reality, I have some other views. My views dig past the screen and break apart the struggles and decisions Burton made while directing. While I agree with Hoffman, who noted this film is “Tim Burton’s best in 20 years” (2016), there are some scenes that left me confused and upset.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, is a story full of suspense and mysteries that are unexplained and is a story about a boy named Jacob who had seen his Grandfather die and took special therapy for it that lead him to a house on the island that was filled with Peculiar Children. Here he fell in love with a peculiar child named Emma. He also saved the children from a dangerous wight, and a horrific hollow. Through relationships, symbols, and characters, the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children tableau shows the viewer the dangerous, confusing, and mysteriousness of the story as a whole.

Reading these short stories in class I have noticed that there are many similarities between Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and the gothic short stories. I believe that “Feather Pillow”, “The Masque of Red Death”, and “Black Cat” relate to my outside reading book the most because they have similar gothic elements that are presented in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

Veronica Roth in Divergent wrote: "There are many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater." The characters have experienced that tough choices must be made regarding the ones they love most. In Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Jacob Portman, an anti-social teenage boy with a big imagination, has to battle between fantasy and reality, all while acknowledging a big family secret. After the death of his grandfather, Jacob becomes even more isolated from the world, specifically because he admired and looked

“There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads- they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white always wins. They’re ugly, but these are the facts of life.” ************ Along with the main theme of the story, racism, there are multiple other themes that are represented in the story. These include: the coexistence of good and evil, and importance of mortal education. The use of the “mockingbird” symbolizes innocence in the main characters, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Scout because of the social issues within the society in the 1930’s.

It seems remarkable that such sexism can pervade the very churches where women seem to be the staunchest supporters. After all, it’s not pure coincidence that every small town seems to need both a church and a bar, now is it?

Miss peregrine's home for peculiar children is about a sixteen year old boy named Jacob Portman who grew up hearing his Grandpa Portman's stories. As Jacob grew up his grandpa would tell him crazy stories of him when he was a kid how he lived and how he lived in this children's home on an island, and how every kid had a special power. Grandpa Portman's power was he could see the monsters, he would always say they were coming for him. Jacobs was very interested in his story and always believed them but his parents always said that he was just crazy and that there made up. Jacob never listened to his parents, and was always interested in the stories. One day Grandpa Portman was killed by the monsters, and Jacob started to go through his stuff

He represents the way how legends become less fictional the more one learns about it. He also save them from Bob Ewell, and shows the good within every person, no matter what their past is.

Tim Burton is known for directing movies that pertain to dark, gothic, eccentric and quirky fantasy. His newest 2016 movie, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is filled with fun, unusual characters who work well together. Each one is eccentric in their own way and their quality adds to the suspense and thrill part of the fantasy. I myself compare it to Harry Potter. Both main characters discovered a hidden world beneath the one in which we live. Harry Potter found witches and wizards while Jacob found the world of peculiars.

The book I read is Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets by jk Rowling. The many conflicts of the story give it an interesting taste and builds up to the climax where Harry beats Voldemort.(not for good though) Harry's perspective on all of these conflicts are somewhat relative to mine such as how he dealed with the bludger at quittich.(he kind of fell off his broom) Though, I am going to talk about the conflicts like how Dobby dropped the cake on the business owner's wife, how Harry Harry heard the serpent and nobody else heard it.