Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Chapter 3 Quotes
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Chapter 3 Quotes
How we cite the quotes:
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Quote 1
I thought of all the horrors Grandpa Portman had faced in his life, and felt my resolve harden. If there was anyone to find inside, I would find them. (3.120)
Jacob's grandfather was a brave man, so Jacob uses his memory of Grandpa's courage to motivate himself to push through difficult situations.
Quote 2
My grandfather had described it a hundred times, but in his stories the house was always a bright, happy place—big and rambling, yes, but full of light and laughter. What stood before me now was no refuge from monsters but a monster itself, staring down from its perch on the hill with vacant hunger. (3.116)
Jacob can't rationalize his grandfather's description of Miss Peregrine's house with the hollow shell it appears to be when he arrives there. It's practically the opposite of what Grandpa said.
Quote 3
I dreamed instead about my grandfather as a boy, about his first night here, a stranger in a strange land, under a strange roof, owing his life to people who spoke a strange tongue. (3.42)
Jacob is really identifying with his grandfather here because he is spending his first night on Cairnholm Island, and probably feels very similar to the way Grandpa did back then.