Preview

Hollow City By Ransom Riggs: Summary

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
158 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Hollow City By Ransom Riggs: Summary
For my first free reading book of the trimester I read Hollow City by Ransom Riggs. This young adult novel is the second book following Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Ransom Riggs’ writing style was highly intriguing and drew me into the book almost as if I was there. Another great part of the book, was that on some pages it included pictures, which helped me understand the content better and to visualize what the characters look like as well as the setting. The book takes place in numerous places, for these peculiar children go on a wild goose chases throughout the book. This book was not what I would typically read, but I decided to try something new and I would definitely think anyone would enjoy this book because it has almost

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    No. Just no. The well-known fantasy film, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a total disappointment. Harald Zwart took an incredible book filled with emotion, adventure, and mystery and transformed it into 130 minutes of nothing. Cassandra Clare’s amazing writing and characterization was demolished by the horrible directing and simply not good enough acting. I’m sure Clare went home in tears.…

    • 627 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    For several years, World War II had been raging in Europe. In 1945, German soldiers surrounded Russia and tried to choke off the train of supplies entering the country. Leningrad, Russia remained under constant bombing by German aircraft. Leningrad was a key location for Russia’s war efforts due to its manufacturing facilities and needed to stay functional. Lev Beniov was on the roof of his apartment building watching the anti-aircraft balloons above the city. It was on this night that a dead German paratrooper landed in front of Lev’s building. As the news reached all the boys and girls on the roof, they rushed down to examine and loot the dead soldier. Within minutes, Russian soldiers appeared. Lev’s friends deserted him and he was arrested and thrown into the Crosses. After spending the night, Colonel Grechko gave Lev a chance to redeem himself for his wrongs and save his life. Through…

    • 1292 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a detailed look at the climate and events surrounding the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. This time period ushered in a new era of architectural and cultural changes throughout the country. This book was written by Erik Larson, is 447 pages long, and was published by Crown Publishers in February 2003. I chose this book because I had heard from friends and family that it was an interesting piece, and a surprisingly good read for a work of non-fiction.…

    • 909 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    There are many volcanos in the world, but one particular volcano called Mount Vesuvius is over thousands of years old. It was so powerful that it erupted over 50 times in total so far. When this volcano had its famous eruption, it buried the ancient roman city under a very large layer of ash from the volcano. During this event people who lived in the ancient roman city were trying to survive from this tragedy. Over two thousand people had died along with the city being forgotten. When some researchers and explorers went to this this tragedy in the year 1748, they were shocked to discover the Pompeii had no damage and was still standing under the thick layer of ashes. There were antiquities, buildings, and skeletons from the past has taught us today a lot about history from the ancient life. Is this world Naples from the past have barely escaped from its home to see the Pompeii from long ago under the volcanic ashes when the volcano erupted.…

    • 275 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    In The Devil in the White City you can find murder, magic and madness at the fair that changed America. In this book you discover 1893 Chicago at the time of the world’s fair, also known as the World’s Columbian Exposition. The story follows two separate but connected plots. One plot consist of a serial killer in the city while another consist of the building of the fair. Each plot follows two separate characters; H.H Holmes the serial killer and Daniel Burnham the architect. I believe that Erik Larson wrote this book based on two different stories because they both explain the expansion of technological/ entertainment advancements and the expansion of transportation/population growth during the late 19th century. Daniel Burnham and H.H. Holmes…

    • 1090 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Monkeyface Chronicles

    • 640 Words
    • 3 Pages

    For my verbal-visual collage, I chose to read the book The Monkeyface Chronicles by Richard Scarsbrook. Richard is a Canadian author who attended Western University where he earned an Honours BA in history. He also attended U of Ottawa and received his Bachelor of Education. Richard published his book the Monkeyface Chronicles in 2010. I chose to read this book for my project because it was recommended by the library staff at NT. Also, the novel won the Ontario Library Association’s White Pine Award in 2011. The White Pine Award is an annual literature award that has awarded young adult novels since 2002. Other books like Little Brother by Cory Doctorow and Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin have also received White Pine Awards.…

    • 640 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The setting is in a small northern New Brunswick Mill Town, usually in the Walsh’s house in 1972.…

    • 1041 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Ingrid and I share a strong passion for reading. Her idol is Sherlock Holmes and she has read his entire book collection, but I on the other hand haven’t read any of his books. Also, as she has been locked in a home I have been locked out… many times. And that’s pretty much the only thing we have in common because her sheer braveness and instinct are very unique to find in a person so young. I was so intrigued by this book that I found it impossible to put down. I literally finished it in a few hours. This book is a good read for any one who likes action, suspense, mystery, or just a plain good…

    • 324 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The book I read is Hollow City: The second novel of Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children by Ransom Riggs. It is a horror story about a group of kids with special abilities trying to help their headmistress turn back into her human form. It is told form the perspective of Jacob Portman, a kid from present day Florida, the other kids have been in a time loop that has preserved them for many centuries. The kids and their abilities are as follows(as written in the books character description): Jacob Portman-Our hero, who can see and sense hollowgast; Emma Bloom- A girl who can make fire with her hands, formerly involved witch Jacob’s grandfather; Abraham Portman(deceased)- Jacob’s grandfather, killed by a hollowgast; Bronwyn Bruntley-…

    • 612 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    She’s cold and confused, she is left in shock, right on the sides of the road were she is then able to get herself together and pick herself up still being soar but in one piece.…

    • 336 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Drowned City Hurricane Katrina & New Orléans is a graphic novel that tells a story of Hurricane Katrina and her effects on the cities that she went through her fury. The factual account starts of in Early August when Hurricane Katrina was formeed off the coast of Africa. The story continues to tell the highs and lows of those that lived through Hurricane Katrina ending itselfa that the point where the city and surronding areas are rebuilding back into the community it once was.The pictures in this novel at times pull at the heart string and will take readers back to the time and date if when that situation occur. The illustrator does not shy away from any details in this novel. There is a scene in the book that shows the bodies of victims floating…

    • 219 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Andrew Gardner, in his book, City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain, has taken a deeper insight into the lives of “Indian transnational proletariat” (Gardner 49). Skillful use of one of the best methods of research, i.e. field study, lets Gardner influentially explain the overall framework of the structural violence in effect in the Gulf countries; especially Bahrain. Gardner draws a clear hierarchy of the factors contributing to structural violence, and the extent to which these factors contribute to the never-ending exploitation of the migrant workers. By exploring many different cases in the labor camps of Bahrain, Gardner highlights the situations that lead to ultimate ‘sufferings,’ of the laborers; like the financial hardships in home countries, the captivity due to the contracts, the inability to resist due to “cultural and linguistic barriers” (Gardner 63).…

    • 640 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Summary Of Ransom Riggs

    • 283 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Ransom Riggs is a children's literature author with books including, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children, and Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #3). He like to tell story with words, pictures, and often both. Riggs is an American born in 1980 in Maryland. He grew up on a farm on the Eastern shore of Maryland and also in a little house by the beach in Englewood, Florida. He started writing stories when he was young, on an old typewriter. When Riggs was a little older he got a camera for Christmas and became…

    • 283 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    “The Mortal Instruments: The City of Bones” By Cassandra Clare centers a protagonist character name Clary Fray.…

    • 506 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Eric Bogosian's Suburbia

    • 971 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The play introduces 7 characters within a matter of minutes, Tim who is an alcoholic and who was discharged from the US Air Force, Buff who is a wannabe video editor who has a stolen camcorder and who records everything and anything, Jeff, the only one out of the group of men from Burnfield who seems somewhat decent,…

    • 971 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays