Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

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In the novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, and the short stories, “Masque of Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe, “Black Cat”, by Edgar Allan Poe, and “A Rose For Emily”, by William Faulkner, the authors use many gothic elements throughout the texts. However, the gothic elements primarily used are violence, pain and mystery. Violence is evident in the novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children and the short story “Black Cat”. When something uncommon to the normal eye occurs, it is almost as though the characters are not phased. In “Black Cat” the owner of the creature “slipped a noose about its neck and hung it by the limb of the tree” (Poe 2), which is no orderly task. Likely, in Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, it is stated “the nightly assault had become such a regular part in their lives that they ceased to think of it as something terrifying” (Riggs 172). Whether the violence is expressed in a physical way or not, it is a primary gothic element in both texts. …show more content…

In the short story pain is expressed in a more physical way when saying “the scarlet stains upon the body, and especially the face, shut him from the aid and the sympathy of his fellow men” (Poe 446). On another note, emotional pain and rejection are felt in the novel when looking for approval. It states “when someone won’t let you in, you eventually stop knocking” (Riggs 88). No matter the type of pain, it is felt strongly throughout both

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