HUGE, BIG, LARGE QUESTION

My big question for Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children: Is it worth giving up everything you had for something you want more? I think this is a big question because this is pretty much Jacobs ultimate decision. Back home he didn't really like the life he was living. He had a job he hated, he only had one friend, his family drove him crazy, and his grandfather that everyone thought was crazy had just died. So he didn't really have a whole lot to look forward to if he went back home. At Miss Peregrine's though he was wanted. He had tons of friends that actually understood him. He had Emma, who was the closest thing he ever had to a girlfriend. The people there actually cared about him. He felt like he actually belonged there. So he had to make a decision whether he would go back home to his family or stay at MissPeregrine's. You would think the decision was easy considering the pros and cons. It really wasn't though. His parents did care about him. They would be devastated if he just left them without telling them why or where he went. His dad would feel like it was his fault. Jacob knew he couldn't go home though. He had nothing there for him and the wights and hollowgasts would be after him for sure. He had to figure out some way to tell his dad. First he tried writing him a letter, but knew is dad would just think he was crazy. He ended up having some help from his friends from MissPeregrine's. They came to their room and tried showing Jacobs dad that he wasn't making all the stuff up and that his grandpas stories were true. Jacobs dad just thought he was dreaming and went back to bed. Jacob ended up leaving him a letter and a photo of Jacobs grandpa with Emma so he would know everything was real.

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Imagination is one characteristic of romantic literature that is in this poem. In the poem, the Mariners ship mates died, then all of the sudden they came back to life and started working the ship. This couldn't happen in real life. There's also the part about the Mariner killing the bird with his crossbow. All that bad stuff that happened wouldn't happen just because he killed a bird. Another characteristic is idealism. It has idealism in it because it has to do with spirits a lot in this poem. The spirit loved the bird that the Mariner killed. The spirit then became angry, and the spirit was the one causing all the things to happen.
I think the theme of this poem is that when you try to fix something that you're guilty about. I believe this is true because the Mariner shot the bird and after that, him and all of the people on the ship were stuck out in the middle of the ocean and all dying of thirst. He was the only one that didn't die and he had to live with that guilt. He then started praying and they were things other than just himself. After he started praying, angels helped him control the ship and it ended up saving his life.

Miss P's Home For Peculiar Children

I just started reading Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children. So far what is happening is that a boy named Jacob works at a Smart Aid which is a chain pharmacy store owned by his uncle. He constantly is trying to get fired, but can never manage to do so. The one day he was working he got paged on the overhead speaker that he had a call on line 2. He went back to the backroom where he picked up the phone and it was his grandpa having a panic attack. His grandpa couldn't find the key and told Jacob that he wasn't safe. Come to find out his grandpa has dementia and Jacob's family would go along with what he said. Also, the key that he was talking about was a key to his chest that he had in his garage that carried loads of weapons. Big enough to supply a large militia. Jacob's father had taken that key, afraid his grandpa would harm himself. Jacob called his father after this conversation and his father told him to go check on him. Jacob's friend Ricky then came and picked him up and they headed towards the grandpas house. Once they got there, Jacob went up to the front door and rang the door bell, but no one came to the door. So he thought maybe the door bell had been broken, so he began knocking on the door. Still no one came to the door. Jacob went and found the hidden key and let himself into the house. Once in the house, Jacob could see that his grandpa had ransacked the place. He went through every drawer and even flipped over furniture, but one thing was missing. It was his grandpa. Jacob went through the whole house and couldn't manage to find him. He proceeded on going outside to the forest the separates the two subdivisions. He found a flashlight lying in the backyard and picked it up and went into the woods while Ricky went back to his car and grabbed a .22 rifle. Jacob went through the woods and came upon his grandpa lying face down in the dirt in the forest. He flipped him over on his back and his grandpa told him to go to the island that he would be safe there.
One question I have so far is what could of killed Jacob's grandpa. Kind of creepy that he was afraid and telling Jacob he wouldn't be safe and is found lying bleeding to death in the woods. This book is one of the best suspense books that I have ever read and would recommend that everyone read it.