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Who wrote Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children? - answersRansom Riggs
What are Wights? - answersmonsters who are trying to abduct all the Peculiars. look
human except that their eyes lack pupils, they have no particular abilities, can pass for
human, live in servitude to their hollow brethren acting as spies and procurers of flesh.
Jeffrey Domer was a famous wight.
What is a Hollowgast? - answershearts and souls are empty, gorges in the flesh of
peculiar. If they eat enough peculiar flesh, they will become a wight. Mostly nomads
because the bodies start to pile up. They only become visible to most people when
they're eating, which usually means it's too late for you or the people you are with.
Setting: Where does the story begin? Where does it then change to? - answersIt begins
in Florida, then to Cairnholm Island off the coast of Wales, UK
This book begins with a quote by what American philosopher? - answersRalph Waldo
Emerson
According to Grandpa Portman he was born in Poland, but why was he shipped off to a
children's home in Wells? - answersBecause of the monsters
Grandpa Portman had always said that monsters had killed his family, his parents,
aunts and his uncles. How does Jacob's father rationalize the monsters of Grandpa
Portman's stories to Jacob? - answersHis father explains that his family were all in
Poland during WWII and the monsters were actually the Nazis.
, What was the terrible thing that happened that created the ¨before and after¨ for Jacob.
- answersGrandpa Portman died and Jacob saw the first of the monsters for himself.
What were Grandpa Portmanś last words? - answersThere's no time, find the bird. In
the loop. ON the other side of the old man's grave. September 3, 1940. Emerson - the
letter. Tell them what happened, Yakob.¨
Why did the police sketch artist give Jacob the picture of his grandfather's killer? -
answersIt had tentacles coming out of itś mouth so they didn take him seriously.
What is ¨the bird, the loop, and the grave¨? - answersGrandpa Portman's last words
before he died.
Jacob's parents threw him a surprise party. What did his Aunt Susie give him? -
answersA book, The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that she found in his
Grandfatherś desk that had Jacobś name written in the front: ¨To Jacob Magellan
Portman and the world's he has yet to discover.¨
How was Jacob able to convince his parents he should be allowed to spend the
summer on Cairnholm Island in Wales? - answersThe psychologist agreed it would be
good for him, and anything the psychologist said, they did. The psychologist said that it
was a place that had been so mythologized by his grandfather that visiting could only
serve to demystify it.
Who accompanied Jacob to Ciarnhom Island, and why? - answersHis father, so he
could study birds
When Jacob first called the only phone on the island, how did he think that the owner
answered the phone? Hint: it's the name of the "hotel"? - answersPiss hole, but it's
actually ¨priest hole¨ pronounced with an accent. The Priest Hole is a hiding space that
was used to hide Catholics during Queen Elizabeth's reign, when being a Catholic with
a punishable crime.
Why is it really easy to sleep at their hotel, The Priest's Hole, after 10:00? -
answersThere isn't any power on the island, everything is run by generator power. All
generators turn off at 10:00 pm because gas is so expensive to get out to the island,
plunging the island into darkness and silence.
What type of geographical landscape surrounds Miss Peregrines home for peculiar
children that makes it hard to get to? - answersA bog
What is the significance of September 3, 1940? - answersThat is the day that Miss
Peregrine's home is perpetually experiences over and over in their loop.
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