Mrs Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Essay

Many themes come up while reading the whimsical novel, “Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” by Ransom Riggs, but one that occurs throughout the story, is Jacob’s will to keep searching. His adventurous childhood, due to his grandfather’s bizarre tales from his childhood, slowly faded away because of his father’s contradictions to the stories. But when Jacob turns sixteen, his grandfather’s last words haunt him, to the point where his spark for the childhood stories ignites once more.
Abraham (Abe) Portman, Jacob’s grandfather, lived a very interesting life. During his childhood, his parents sent him to an orphanage in Cairholms, Wales, to protect him from the “monsters” that were in Poland, his home country. He lived there with other children, who supposedly, had peculiar abilities. Once he decided to leave the orphanage to help fight in the war, it was discovered later that the home was bombed by a Nazi air strike. Grandpa Portman flew to America and
Jacob uncovers that fact that he too, was a peculiar. “He could see the monsters. The moment she said it, all the horrors I thought I’d put behind me came flooding back. Thew were real. They ere real and they’d killed my grandfather. “I can see them too”, I told her, whispering it like a secret shame. Her eyes welled and she embraced me. I knew there was something peculiar about you” she said. “And I mean that as the highest compliment””(Riggs 243). Emma told Jacob, that his grandpa could see the monsters, which led to his confession of being able to see them. Emma was one of the peculiars who had been very close to Jacob’s grandpa during his stay at the home. Naturally her and Abe Portman’s grandson would grow close also. After learning about his peculiarity, Jacob was a huge help to eliminate the “monsters” his grandfather always spoke