Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

Throughout history, people have been drawn to stories with dark images, haunted houses, death or monsters. These are all elements that are found in Gothic literature. Similar types of gothic elements can be found in both “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” by Ransom Riggs, and many other short stories. One type of element often found in gothic literature is a creature or monster. In “Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children” there are actually two types of monsters. The children are trying to stop hollows, a type monster that is invisible to the naked eye, except for one person in the book. The hollows are trying to be omnipotent, but the children are trying to save the world for everybody in order for them to live a normal safe …show more content…
Also the kids or monsters have powers like the ability to “hold a flickering light, which wasn’t a lantern or a candle, but a ball of flame” (Riggs 136). A different kind of monster is found in “Feather Pillow,” by Horacio Quiroga. A normal woman finds herself ill and trying to survive and hold on to those moments only to be feasted on by something “among the feathers, slowly moving its hairy legs, there was a monstrous animal” (Quiroga 2). Another element common in gothic literature is death, pain or blood. There is pain in both “Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe and “Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children.” The pain in “Fall of the House of Usher” is suffered by Madeline who endured pain from a “severed and long continued illness” (Poe 418). The children suffer pain in “Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children” during the fighting against the hollows, especially “when I saw the gashes across his midsection” (Riggs 35). Both stories contain a lot of pain and suffering which fits right in with the gothic element of each of these stories and how they all share similar content.Gothic literature often contains supernatural events. These are things that cannot be explained and are not normal in the

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