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Getting to know you, getting to know all about you...
Who hid a Priest?
Strange Magic... this bog thing
1940
A little bit Evil
100
Foil is when two characters are opposites to show a person's characteristics in a faster way. It typically highlights the negative aspects of one character. Which character works as Jacob's foil?
Who is Ricky?
100
What is Cairnholm like? Give me details.
Cairnholm is unique. It is a tiny island that is a little bit hard to get to. It is small enough that they use generators instead of actual electricity. The generators turn off at ten each night. They are a bit behind the times. They only have one place to eat besides your own home and they only have one place to stay (the bar- the priest hole). They have a museum in an old church. It is a sleepy town overall. They have a unique bog that a young boy sacrificed himself in hundreds if not thousands of years ago.
100
What is Martin like? What is his obsession?
Martin is a smart, educated, man who has lived on Cairnholm most of his life. He is the Museum Curator and takes care of his true obsession, the bog boy. How obsessed is he? Well he has done quite a lot for this bog boy, he even created a love poem for him.
100
Jacob discovers the trunk and the photos within it. However someone else discovers him checking around the house. Who found him?
Emma.
100
What happened with the sheep? How did Jacob almost get into trouble?
Someone or something had slaughtered several sheep on the island. Not knowing any better, the islanders assumed it was teens. Worm and Dylan were the typical culprits, but some of them thought Jacob was in on it too.
200
Before Grandpa Portman's Death, Franklin(Jacob's dad) had talked with his sister (Aunt Susie) about putting Abe into the nursing home. What was so wrong with him that they wanted to put him in a nursing home?
They thought he was going crazy and had issues with dementia. They even stole his key to his gun case because they thought he was going to hurt himself.
200
Why do Kev and the rest of the islanders call the Priest Home the Priest Hole? (Think about the historical significance)
Kev and the guys call it the Priest Hole because years before during the wars they would hide Priests within the bar in the floor/cabinets.
200
According to Martin's uncle, were there any survivors in the destruction of Miss Peregrine's home? What happened to the survivor(s)?
There was one. Abe's grandpa walked into town and rode the ferry out of town and went to fight in the war.
200
What is different about Cairnholm in 1940 and Jacob's time?
The 1940 version is a lot more positive. It is bright, sunny, and everything is well taken care of. However, the current Cairnholm has kind of gone down hill while the rest of the world thrived. It seems like it may have been a good thing that the kids went into the time loop rather than moving on with the rest of the people from that time.
200
How has Enoch's power made him a bit evil?
He gives life and takes it away. Because of that god complex, he struggles to understand emotions in quite the same way. It has also damaged his moral compass.
300
How did Jacob's grandpa die? What did people try to convince him actually happened?
He was killed by a Hollow, but everyone tried to convince Jacob that it was just a wild dog.
300
When Jacob discovered the house his Grandpa Abe had lived in years ago, what shape was it in? How did it get to be like that?
It was destroyed for the most part. It had been destroyed in the War when the Japs bombed the island in an air raid. The bomb had ripped through the house leaving some of it intact, but destroying quite a bit of it.
300
What is the legend behind the bog?
The bog is supposedly an entrance to another world. People in the past have believed that if they sacrificed themselves in the bog, they would be given admission to a different world.
300
What is an ymbren? What do they do that makes them special?
ymbrens can transform into birds and then back into people fairly easy. They can also manipulate time. They can travel back and forth in time or create a loop of time that repeats itself.
300
What are Enoch’s Homunculi?
They are little figurines that he creates and then gives life to. Ex. The little soldiers
400
What did Grandpa mean when he said, "Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man's grave. September third, 1940."?
He told him to go find Miss Peregrine in what we now know is the time loop, the only thing that can protect him if he can find it. Abe also gave directions to it.
400
Why did Franklin give up on his father Abe?
Franklin and Susie both thought that Abe was cheating on their mom with another woman. They also thought he was going around with other women when he was hunting for Hollows and Wights.
400
Who was the first Peculiar child Jacob saw?
Emma
400
Coerlfolcs are normal humans while Crypto sapiens/Syndrigasts are peculiar. What is the real difference?
The peculiarities make them different. The Peculiars are also the only ones who can go in and out of time loops.
400
How does Jacob discover the truth about the monsters? Where does he go for this?
Jacob talks to Emma about it and gets more of the details since no one else seems to want to tell him anything. They went to the shipwreck/u-ship.
500
How did Jacob convince Dr. Golan to tell his parents to let him go to Cairnholm?
Jacob threatened to kill himself if Dr. Golan didn't convince them to let him go.
500
Describe Dylan and Worm.
Dylan and Worm are odd. They think they are sick rappers, but really they are just a bit odd. One dressed in a track suit while the other looks normal.
500
How can weather play a role in guiding the readers to feel a certain way (aka the mood of the readers)?
Ransom Riggs used bad weather to show things were getting more and more interesting as the storms got worse. He also showed the calm that came with Sept. 3, 1940. He really tries to make the readers feel the way the characters are feeling by using the weather.
500
What are the benefits of the time loop? What are the drawbacks to the time loop?
The kids can live for quite a long time as long as they stay in the time loop. However, they have to become divorced from the current time in order to stay alive. The second they leave the loop, they age the number of years that make up the difference between when they went in the loop.
500
Why were the peculiar children able to go around showing off their powers in the halcyon days?
They pretended that their peculiarities were a rouse. If people believed they were faking it, they could do anything they wanted to without people even questioning it.