Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Pages: 348 out of 348 (finished)
Prompt: Analyzing the impact of imagery and figurative language have on the meaning and tone of my book

     The style of this book is clearly stated in the first chapter of the book when it introduces the main characters and the setting. The author's style was to include pictures from classic literature books every time he explained some kind of imagery in the page. The book overall doesn't include as much as 50% of figurative language it seems that the author wanted to focus more on imagery instead of using literary devices. I was imagining that the tone of this story would be sort of positive as the main character Grandpa Portman explains that the home was everything a child could dream of and using words like "marvelous" and "fantastic". I felt like the imagery impacted the tone more than the figurative language as the climax develops around the time when Jacob Portman travels to a mysterious island to find the truth about this "peculiar home". The comparisons in the book show the horrors of life during World War II and they compare the hideous hollows to the murdering Nazis.

      The photos in Miss Peregrine's album create some kind of imagery in the reader's head in order for the reader to process the threats that these peculiar children have. I noticed that author's style was to include a sentence that had figurative language but also created imagery inside a reader's head. For example "to have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be was magical". The imagery that shown was that these poor children have seen houses being blown up by the Nazis over and over again but that they had become honorable and brave to finally confront the hollows. The quote kind of develops the character traits of Jacob who was first seen a spoiled child but now has become a hero to this children after seeing the horrors of this world and the worst of humanity. The imagery mentioned in this quote shows that the mood might be suspenseful or  thrilling because of the adventures mentioned by another character called Emma.

        The tone starts to get darker after Miss Peregrine tells Jacob about the wights who are even worse than the hollows. The figurative language that she uses gave me goosebumps and it even made me skip the photos. The description created a horrifying image in my head when she said that their eyes were "as white as the Milky Way". Miss Peregrine also says that these monsters appear like a common person who eats peculiar children and they disappear like fog after a storm. The imagery created by these details made the tone even darker than before because it leads to the death battle between Jacob and a wight. The wound of Milliard a peculiar child gives me the idea that this book is young adult and it even lightens up the tone. In the book he says "will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace." The language created some kind of humor in the book but the imagery of the wound gave me a sick feeling and a dark mood even in the end.
   

The description of the wight changed the mood from adventurous to a darker tone based on the figurative language and imagery. In the middle of the book she mentions that his eye was "as white as the Milky Way" and that he could "appear like a typical person". In my head I was imagining a monster who kidnaps children and destroys them just for their power. The picture above shows a wight in disguise which even lead me to skip this page entirely.

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