Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

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Objects represent the physical form of intangible memories and feelings in a person’s mind. An object can have a different meaning depending on the person being asked. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children an adolescent boy begins as an ordinary kid living in the suburbs. Jacob is petrified after his own grandfather dies in his arms after being attacked by a creature that Jacob does not know if he imagined. He finds the peculiar kids of his grandfather’s childhood and finds out how he is a part of these children. This journal explains the meaning of the cairn, the house, and the statue of Adam from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The cairn represents a big part of the children’s lives and protects them from creatures of every kind. Miss …show more content…

The house is their protector of evils, and it is the place they call home and find happiness in. Miss Peregrine’s house brought the peculiar children together and keeps them away from the monsters that want to destroy them. This house means everything to them, so they take care of it and make it their own. The house was unusual in a good way: “I gazed at it in wonder—not because it was awful, but because it was beautiful” (Riggs 143). There is a place for each child that can be seen on or in the house. When each piece is put together, it seems as if the house has a peculiar identity of its own ☺. To Miss Peregrine, the house is like a blanket that bundles up all of her children into one ☺. Miss Peregrine wants to help children that do not fit in with non-peculiars, so she takes care of them in this house. Miss Peregrine has saved countless souls from the wrath of others by using this house. She does whatever she can to defend the children and the house from the hollowgasts and wights when they come. The house has many stories to tell and secrets to

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