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Grandfather
Jacob gets a frantic call from his grandfather so he goes to check on him. On his way there he notices one of the neighbors has milky white eyes. He eventually finds his grandfather face down in the woods covered in blood. When he looks up he sees a creature standing in the woods.
The Milky white peculiar eyes of the neighbor, the messy house and the neighborhood setting all foreshadow later events. -
Therapy
No one believes Jacob when he tells them what he saw in the forest. His therapist tells him to go to the island his grandfather told him about. The demanding nature the therapist tells Jacob to travel to the island in foreshadows the later events of the novel.
The therapist was a bit TO eager for Jacob to go. -
island
Jacob arrives at the island. It is described as foggy, looming and bleak. Screeching birds and cliffs surround the island. The island itself lacks connection to the outside world and it rundown. The people aren’t friendly at all and seem unsettled.The setting helps develop where majority of the story takes place. It also helps explain why Jacob is driven to figure out the mysteries of the island and the house. -
house
Jacob goes searching for the home and all he finds is an empty house full of broken abandon things that are falling to pieces. The setting of the house adds to the creepy tone of the novel. It helps the story start to accelerate towards the rising action of the story.
Similes: "..vines..spread across the floor like alien tentacles."
Personification: evil-looking stains -
Loop
While Jacob is exploring the house he is discovered by some of the peculiar children. He follows one of them into a tomb and ends up back at the house, but in a different time period. He finds that he entered a loop in 1940. -
meeting
Meets Miss Peregrine and the other peculiar children. Jacob has dinner with them and tells them about his grandfather, who they know as Abe. The area is sunny and the house is beautiful. There are children everywhere enjoying themselves. It is the same location just a completely different setting. This difference helps the reader differentiate between the two time periods. It also causes a change in tone. -
children
Jacob becomes closer with some of the children as he visits each day and he learns about what makes them peculiar. His original impression when shown pictures of these children were ones of disgust or confusion. There was an eerie feel to the photos. But meeting the children in a happy setting changed the mood one gets from the children. The setting and context the characters were introduced in changes how the reader perceives them. -
Wight
A man shows up as a bird watcher just like Jacobs dad. He is armed with a bird cage and fancy binoculars. He wears big dark sunglasses and seems to be carefully studying specific areas. This is foreshadowing. He knows Miss peregrine changes into a bird and the man seems to be studying all the areas she goes too. -
Learning
Emma tells Jacob he is a peculiar too, just like the rest of the children. He learns about Wight’s and hallowgasts. It appears to be a coincidence that the wights attack another loop at the same time the suspicious bird watcher appears on the island. -
Stormy weather
The island gets hit with nasty weather. The sky is dark and the waves in the sea are crashing. A man named martin was murdered and his body was found in the sea. This setting foreshadows that something awful is about to happen. The dark gloomy weather causes a change in tone and prepares the reader for the next event. The drastic change in weather notifies that the story has reached its climax. -
The Wight revealed
The children go to find out who killed martin and come face to face with the killer, a wight, who was disguised as Jacobs’s therapist, his bus driver and the weird bird watcher. The hallowgast creature attempts to attack the children. It is dark and the shadows the creatures cast flicker in the moonlight. This creates an ominous, creepy tone. -
ending
Jacob and a few of the children find out Miss Peregrine was captured and they set out to save her. They rescue her from the lighthouse where the Wight was holding her and the other ymbryne. The Wights are still after them so the children take their headmistress and head off into the future (in a sense) on a small boat in the ocean. The ocean turned calm and there was a glowing light cast over. The setting changes to the emotions the characters are feeling and the overall mood of the text.
