74 pages • 2 hours read
Ransom RiggsMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
Consider the use of photographs throughout the book. What role do the photographs play in the reader’s understanding of the events happening in the book? Do the photographs add to the narrative or do they detract from it? Provide examples and explain.
Describe two or more of the collections that affect the plot. Are collections (for example, Grandpa Portman’s collection of photographs) important to driving the story forward? Why or why not?
Religious elements sprout up in many places within the story. What are examples of some religious components/allusions? What do the religious elements add to the novel as a whole?
What significance, if any, does Grandpa Portman’s decision to go off to war and fight both Nazis and hollowgast have on Jacob’s journey to Cairnholm and the into the loop?
Jacob’s power places him in a unique position to help Miss Peregrine and Miss Avocet after they have been abducted. In what ways do the powers of the other peculiar children assist in ultimately saving Miss Peregrine? Choose two or three peculiar children and explain.
In what way is Jacob and his father’s journey to Cairnholm a continuation of Abraham’s journey? Explain.
There are many parallels between Jacob and Abraham. What are they? And how does Jacob’s journey to the island bring these similarities to the surface?
Dr. Golan initiates Jacob’s journey by suggesting to his parents that it is a good idea for him to go to Cairnholm. In what ways does Dr. Golan’s role change between the time Jacob is ignorant of his grandfather’s truth and when he becomes aware of the truth behind the story?
Miss Peregrine fears the stories that pass between Jacob and the children about the future. In what ways does discussing the future endanger the loop she protects the children with? Is the loop truly protective? Explain.
Jacob descends at many different times within the story (into the ruined house’s basement, into the cairn, into the shipwreck). What do these descents ultimately teach him about himself and his grandfather?
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