Ms. Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children Chapter 9 Part 2 Pg. 253-264 By: Bradley, Ben, Ryan, and Zach

Setting September 3rd, 1940 (Loop) Nighttime Present Cairnholm Stressful, Tense Children are also scared Proves that Ms. Peregrine wants information kept from the children

Plot Kids become restless after overhearing Ms. Avocet’s story Ms. Peregrine insists on Jacob spending the night in the loop Ms. Peregrine and Jacob go to the greenhouse to talk Ms. Peregrine explains the Wights and the Hollowgasts, also explaining Abe’s mysterious “hunts” from when Jacob’s father was a kid Jacob warns his father about the mysterious birdwatcher

Character Development Jacob Ms. Peregrine Becoming very Secretive On-Edge Determined Secretive Worried Protective Cautious Angry Scared Surprised Suspicious Serious Ms. Peregrine and Jacob have an unsteady relationship between them. They are very uncooperative with each other in the beginning of the chapter because Ms. Peregrine is very unwilling to speak about the wights and hollowgasts to Jacob.

Literary Devices Mood- Pg. 253-254 Imagery- “The study was too close to the children’s bedroom for a late-night talk, so the headmistress and I adjourned to a little greenhouse that edged the woods…” Situational Irony- “Rather than becoming gods, they had transformed themselves into devils”

Thematic Development Discovery Truth Explanation of Wights and Hollowgasts Truth

Key Quotation “One theory is that they reverse-aged themselves to a time before even their souls had been conceived, which is why we call them hollowgast”

Now find one key quote from this part of the chapter

Overall Purpose The overall purpose of this chapter was to explain who or what the hollowgasts and the wights. It was also to give the reader an antagonist.

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