Analysis Of 'Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children'

The Breakfast Club is a movie about five students from Shermer High School who gather on a Saturday to sit through eight hours of detention. These five students; Andrew Clark, Claire Standish, John Bender, Allison Reynolds and Brian Johnson, have nothing in common. The Breakfast Club zooms in on the high school social groups and cliques that are often seen in the development of peer groups during adolescents. The peer groups that are portrayed in The Breakfast Club include, John “the criminal”, Claire “the Princess”, Allison “the Basket case”, Brian “the Brain”, and Andrew “the athlete”. The movie centers around an essay that Principle Vernon wants each student to write regarding who they think they are. In the beginning of the film, the

Kanye West said it best, “Everybody knows I’m a M*f**ing monster” and honestly, as humans we are.

I selected this book because its the best book I have ever read. I read To Kill A Mockingbird last year and my class wrote an essay about this book, since I already know so much about this book I thought it would be a nice and quick read. I thought it would be a great enjoyment to refresh my memory of this epic book. I watched the movie soon after I read the whole book and it was very fun to pick out the not-placed and wrong-worded parts of the movie. To Kill A Mockingbird is about a sister, brother, and their friend Dill finding items in their neighbors tree, soon after this their father was the lawyer of a case on an african american.

Horror is the genre that keeps the reader on their toes for nights upon end. It keeps them thinking. Thinking about how cruel and disturbing someone, or something, could possibly be. Thinking about what in the world happens to a character after the story drops off in a cliffhanger. Thinking about the probability that the events in the narrative could transpire in real life. Thinking about how likely it is for those things to happen to the reader. Refusing to look out their window in fear of seeing the glimpse of a murderous face, and listening to every sound with acute accuracy, praying that the noise is not one of a stranger creeping up the stairs. Scary accounts make the reader live in fear whenever the

Jacob met Miss Peregrine finally! He learns that she is a ymbryme, which means that she can transform herself into a bird and manipulate time to create a safe place for her and her peculiar children. I feel like this book is getting weirder by the second. I really am not into the mythical kind of things in some books, but I still feel like it has a good plot and a good storyline and theme. Ransom Riggs continues to impress me by his writing.

Things that we take for granted are the things that Jacob struggles with the most. For example, when Jacob was little, it was extremely hard for him to be in a loud room and socialize with other kids. Now that he’s fifteen he’s able to play basketball in front of large crowds at the Special Olympics games. It may not sound like a lot, but it is a huge accomplishment for Jacob.

Another way that family was there for Jacobs was how her grandmother made sure that she never went hungry like the rest, due to meager portions of food given to slaves. Or how her grandmother supplied clothes for Jacobs, "for on my various errands I passed my grandmother's house where there was always something to spare for me…grandmother, to avoid detaining me, often stood at the gate with something for my breakfast or dinner…it was her labor that supplied my scanty wardrobe." Having family around to help support each other meant suffering less hardship.

He realizes that helping his friends will make him a better person. He risks his own life to save his family, Jacob and Oteka run from a lion so the lion can follow Jacob and leave Hannah, Paul, and Norman alone, Oteka yells at Jacob, “RUN!” Oteka said ( McKay 175). Jacob asks, “What is it? What is it?”(McKay 175). This is important because, risking ur life for others makes you look like a good person. He also goes to battle to get food for Norman. This was a really dangerous choice he made. “You-do you fight today?” asked Lizard (McKay 134). Food is a need for Norman, this reaches us that sometimes you have lose to gain something. This shows that Jacob learns from his

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth book in the Harry Potter series written by J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany. More accurately, it is the script for the play that is currently playing in London's West End and is set to open on Broadway in April. The story follows Harry Potter nineteen years later after the end of the 7th book. The story focuses on Albus Potter, the middle child of the Potter Family, who are often bullied and made an outcast for being the only Potter to be sorted into Slytherin. The main plot of the cursed child is about Albus and Scorpius (the son of Draco Malfoy) using a time-turner to go back and bring back Cedric Diggory, a student who died in Harry’s fourth year during the Triwizard tournament. While the action in this story takes up most of the book, another recurring theme of the story is Albus’ broken and almost nonexistent relationship with his father. Harry throughout the majority of the book is emotionally and verbally abusive towards his son. (PG)

It plays a big role on how the novel is illustrated, making it very significant to the readers. The author wrote it into a third person perspective. There are numerous pros and cons of having a third person perspective. The novel is written as limited, which only allows Jacob’s thoughts and ideas to be expressed. This is important to notice in the novel because the readers can only see Jacob’s perspective. The story doesn’t show the other characters’ perspective so the readers have to consider and understand their concept. For instance, the affection that Jacob feels towards Rosie and Marlena is freely explicated in the novel. However, Rosie’s and Marlena’s perspectives were never clearly stated in detailed look unlike Jacob’s. Nowadays, it is very common to find a literature piece in a third person point of view. Authors find it much easier to narrate story when it comes to telling a story just in the limited perspective. As the readers, people should admire the point of view of the work because it helps them learn to have sympathy on the

For some, the only will for survival was fear of death, and for others it was the deep desire to achieve their own freedom and the freedom of their children, like with Jacobs and her grandmother. Unfortunately, they were often too petrified to attempt to run or fight back for fear of being brutally punished similarly to the others they had seen try before them. With the threat of her children being put to work on the plantation, however, Jacob’s uses her smarts and the support of family and friends to risk it all for her son and daughter’s freedom. She runs away and spends 7 years lying in her grandmother’s attic watching life pass by from a tiny hole in the roof. Although she is permanently disabled, Dr. Flint finally sells her children to Dr. Sands who had promised to free them. However when he gets married and starts to backtrack on his word, she desperately flees to the New York leaving her son to follow at a later time and to reunite with her daughter who has lived, supposedly free, up in the North already with Mr. Sands

The Breakfast Club was a movie delineating the interactions of five high school students from differing backgrounds encountering the obstacle of a Saturday detention. These five students were composed of a princess, a brain, an outcast, a jock, and most pertinent to this paper, the rebel, John Bender. John Bender is depicted within this movie as a careless and hostile character with some authority issues. An impulsive and uncooperative individual, Bender, in the detention for pulling the fire alarm, serves as a sharp juxtaposition to the other characters, often challenging the others on their perspectives. This contrast could perhaps be attributed to his home life, which is different from his four detention counterparts.

Scout Finch (Jean Louise Finch): The main protagonist and the narrator of the story. As the novel progresses you can see how Scout matures and gains a stronger understanding of other people and herself.

This “support” from his mother, working as the removed hand of God, is what allows Jacob to survive.

The Grimm brothers, in their short story, “Hansel and Gretel”, illuminate the idea of vulnerability, innocence, and determination through two children’s eyes, and how in time, they become who they need to be in order to overcome their obstacle. The two words, “vulnerability” and “innocence” are known adjectives when one thinks of a child, thus fitting almost perfectly when describing Hansel and Gretel. With these natural childlike traits instilled within the two, they have no choice but to become dependent upon one another. These two brothers have constructed a great deal of imagery throughout the story which represents the innocence of a child. The authors develop symbolism throughout the story which in return, helps support my thesis. Unless one takes a closer look within the text, they just might overlook what it actually represents. There is a great use of diction throughout this short story which simply helps describe the two children, Hansel and Gretel. “The white pebbles…glistening like silver coins” is a complete depiction of a young child (Grimm 15). White as we all know represents purity, and the comparison of the pebbles to silver coins creates represents a childlike view of excitement and innocence. This excitement and vivid imagination of Hansel occurs just in time after overhearing the parents plan. There’s a white(purity) cat that the boy mentions when leaving home. Both objects are white, the pebbles and the cat. These two things also represent hope that the