Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children

In the book “Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children” it has many different themes going throughout the text. When comparing “Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children” to other works the following common elements of violence, ghosts and spirits, and blood and pain are found throughout each authors text. In “Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children” and “Black cat” there was violence that occurred. When in “Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children” Thomas finds his grandpa laying on the ground bleeding out. He said “I thought surely he was dead” (Riggs 35). With all of the blood and his grandpa not moving had Thomas convinced he was possibly dead. Then in “Black Cat” the author describes how he had drinking problem and ends up killing his wife and cat. Poe says “I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound” (Poe 1). In these texts violence acted strongly on the characters. In “Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” both revolve around ghosts and spirits. In “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” the special water could make people young again. When Dr. Heidegger tells his patients they drank. He could tell “it was fabled that the spirits of all the doctors deceased patients duelt within its verge” (Hawthorne 95). In “Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar
Children” kids are invisible like Millard. Milled says to Thomas “you’ve seen me as well, through perhaps you didn’t realize it” (Riggs 149). This shows how Thomas cant see some of the peculiar kids and that both texts have spirits and ghost. In “Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children” and “Feather Pillow” both have pain and blood throughout.
In “Feather Pillow” a parasite ends up killing Alicia. “Night after night, ever since Alicia taken her to bed, it had stealthly applied its mouth-its snout, rather-to her temples, sucking out her blood” (Quiroga 2). This shows how the parasite caused pain and sucked the blood out of her. In “Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children” when Thomas’s grandpa was laying on the ground barely alive and when he describes when “the blood soaked through was still warm” (Riggs 35) shows how much pain and blood his grandpa lost and had to go
through. To convey a constant tone throughout each story, each author crafted their message around violent acts, ghostly images, and painful context to pull the reader into the mind of each narrator and character.