Miss Peregrine's Home For Unusual Children By Ransom Riggs

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In Miss Peregrine's Home for Unusual Children by Ransom Riggs, Jacob feels stuck in the ordinary life of every day. Then one day he learns that all the fairy tales his grandfather told him may not be false. This propels Jacob into a new world full of adventure, danger, and fulfillment. For the reader, this is their dream, because it shows how someone completely ordinary can become extremely important. Fictional characters are most interesting when they satisfy the desire for adventure in the reader. In many cases, adventures tales use characters with a tragic backstory, which distances the reader because of the lack of similarities. In this book, Jacob has no tragedy motivating his desire to be unique. He is as normal and part of the background as possible. He doesn't think about the future, because his parents have already picked out his career. He feels there is nothing to look forward to. The reader is better able to identify with the protagonist because he is not so different from themselves. “I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary...” is the very first sentence in the book! This summarizes the reader's position as well as Jacob's, stuck in Act I. The first part of this book is told much like the reader would describe their own life, and so a connection is formed between the reader and character. …show more content…

The reader is drawn to a world where they are not only important but can do “...something almost no one else [can] do.” Jacob has a power, but so do all the other kids. What makes him unique is he has the rarest and most coveted power. From birth, he has been know as extraordinary. To the reader, it doesn't matter how great the protagonist is, but simply that all event surround and concern him. This is the wish of the reader, to be needed and wanted. This is why fiction is so enjoyed; it satisfies the desire for adventure in the

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