Genre
Adventure, Fantasy
Setting and Context
present time London; Devil's Acre loop inside London, time unknown
Narrator and Point of View
Narrator: Jacob
Point of view: first person
Tone and Mood
Tone: anxious, comic at times
Mood: anxious, nightmarish, dark
Protagonist and Antagonist
Main protagonist: Jacob; Antagonist: Caul
Major Conflict
Jacob, Emma and Addison take a boat ride with Sharon to the Devil's Acre to save their friends and ymbrynes.
Climax
Caul takes one of the souls from Library of Souls and turns into an impossible to defeat giant. His Brother Bentham does the same. The two brothers fight while the ymbrynes work on destroying the loop of Library of Souls.
Foreshadowing
Jacob's ability to control the hollows foreshadows his later role in the Library of Souls. He is the librarian, the only one who can see the souls.
Understatement
The peculiar heroes understate Bentham's role in the creation of wights and hollows. It later turns out that it wasn't merely an accident when he decides to side with his brother.
Allusions
Allusion to Oliver Twist:
"All I knew about Victorian slums I'd learned from the campy musical version of Oliver Twist."
Allusion to Sesame Street:
""You look like Big Bird," I said, following her out of the bathroom, "and I look like Mr. Rogers. This Bentham is a cruel man.""
Imagery
Imagery of diseased river and decaying houses in Devil's Acre truly represent what kind of work is done there and what kind of people live there.
Paradox
"Criminals can't be jailed if they're never caught."-Addison in an argument about the peculiar outlaws.
Parallelism
"But not just any hollow. My hollow."
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Metonymy: peculiars and peculiardom is called that way because of the peculiar powers it's members have.
Personification
"We were chasing Death himself into the pit of Hell."
