Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The pictures - in their own contexts - likely existed as wild fantasy pieces. Though the pictures that Riggs uses are supposedly vintage, they are entirely divorced from their context and Riggs uses them in a thoroughly modern way.

Riggs finds most of his photos in huge bins at flea markets for a quarter or fifty cents, Riggs spends hours on Sundays looking for photos that speak with him. Old and fading, photos left behind by people who have passed away. Riggs collects photos of individuals who he doesn’t, the photos are mostly snapshots of people. Riggs currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Tahereh Mafi. Riggs obsession with photography started one year when he received a camera for Christmas and later grew a passion for filming and Riggs and his friends created their own home film videos. Riggs started writing stories at a very young age with an old typewriter. Riggs grew up on a farm on the Eastern shore of Maryland and moved into a small house by the beach in Englewood, Florida. Riggs loves to tell stories using words and sometimes pictures but often he uses both in his novels. Ransom Riggs isn’t an ordinary author, he’s quite peculiar himself. Similarly the photos document the highlights of Grandpa Abe’s time with the very people Jacob is now with. On the brink of social media culture, photos are widely regarded as documentary pieces that capture the highlights - but never the lowlights - of our lives. Peculiar Children was written in that post-Harry Potter era YA fantasticism that endures even today. This makes Jacob an asset to the children. The downfall to leaving these loops is that it will cause time to catch up and the person will age progressively depending on how long they’ve been away from the loop.Īs he learns more about them, he also learns about the monsters who want to eat them, and that only he can see them. The author calls them “time loops” sometimes referred to as “peculiardom” and the thing that makes these time loops different is that they cause the peculiars not to age but the alternative to this is that there is a suspension of time even though they have eternal youth. There he finds the peculiar children from his grandpa’s stories living trapped in time. With the suggestion of his therapist, he goes on vacation to the island his grandpa grew up on. Jacob didn’t believe in those stories until his grandpa died in a freak accident where Jacob sees a strange monster. Sixteen year old Jacob Portman is an ordinary boy who lives in Florida and loved to listen to his grandpa’s stories about living in an orphanage with peculiar children.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs