Genre
Fantasy, Adventure
Setting and Context
Time travel: 1940 London, the exact time of other loops is unknown (before the 20th century), present time London
Narrator and Point of View
Jacob is the narrator, point of view: first person
Tone and Mood
Tone: grim and anxious, comic at certain points
Mood: anxious, nightmarish, tense
Protagonist and Antagonist
Main protagonist is Jacob, antagonists are wights and hollows
Major Conflict
The group sets out to find help for Miss Peregrine-to turn her back to human form
Climax
After Miss Wren finally manages to help the bird everyone thinks is Miss Peregrine the bird turns into a man, the leader of wights and Miss Peregrine's brother.
Foreshadowing
Jacob's decision to not kill the hollow in the frozen fortress foreshadows the events at the end of the novel and a new development of his peculiar powers.
Understatement
The peculiar children constantly understate their ability and resourcefulness of survival. Jacob understates his peculiar powers as well.
Allusions
In the 1940 loop there are allusions to the real historical events of war and Hitler.
Imagery
The most notable imagery is that of the war stricken London and destruction of the city.
Paradox
"Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better."
Parallelism
"If.
If always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because if depended so much on
keeping my wits about me. I couldn’t properly sense things if I was distracted. If
demanded my full presence and participation in now.
If, as much as it scared me, also kept me sane."
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Metonymy: Peculiar children, peculiars are called that because of their peculiar powers.
Personification
Personification of fog in Part One Chapter One:
"And like that we slowly made our way toward land, the fog pursuing us always, its
long, gray tendrils like the ghostly fingers of some phantom hand, ever trying to draw
us back."
