Comparing The Feather Pillow And Home For Peculiar Children

Rough Draft Gothic literature has a specific tone and vibe that sets it apart from other genres of literature. In many gothic literature stories and novels, it seems that there is usually a presence of monsters, one or more characters suffers from psychological issues, or one of the characters is stuck on a memory from the past. These elements play a key role in portraying the characters accurately, and giving a deeper understanding to the story. In The Feather Pillow and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (MP), monsters are present and are the main antagonists in both stories. In MP, the infamous monsters Jacob’s Grandpa always tells stories of, but Jacob has never seen, eventually kill his Grandpa. When Jacob is at his side, he
In The Black Cat, the narrator loves his pets. But his absolute favorite is Pluto, his black cat. One day the cat bit him and instead of acting rationally, “The fury of a demon possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My soul seemed to take flight from my body” (Poe 2). He then proceeds to cut the cats eyes out. Later he kills his wife for getting in the way of him trying to kill the cat, then kills the cat by hanging it from a tree. He is definantly suffering from some type of psychological issue, especially since he is apparently being taken over by demons. In MP, Jacob has accidently found the time loop, and he doesn’t even know that he is in it. He notices things that are off and says to himself “I’m having a psychotic episode. Right now. This is what a psychotic episode feels like” (Riggs 128). Only he is not, he is just convinced that he is crazy. Also earlier in the book, after the monster kills his Grandpa, he suffers from nightmares and horrible day dreams for a long time. He is convinced at first that the monster wasn’t real, he was just seeing things. “It was Grandpa’s stories that planted creatures in my head… and I can’t get them out” (Riggs