Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Prologue Quotes
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Prologue Quotes
How we cite the quotes:
(Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote 10
One day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. (Prologue.3)
Jacob's mother stifles his imagination by telling him this, and it makes him miserable and depressed to be in the real world. As we later learn, there are still parts of the world to be discovered, at least for the majority of normal humankind.
Quote 11
Growing up, Grandpa Portman was the most fascinating person I knew. (Prologue.2)
Ignore the misplaced modifier here. Jacob is talking about how when he was growing up, Grandpa Portman was fascinating. Or maybe he means that Grandpa Portman was fascinating when he was growing up, too.
Quote 12
When I was six I decided that my only chance of having a life half as exciting as Grandpa Portman's was to become an explorer. (Prologue.3)
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Young Jacob wants to pretty much be his grandpa, so he tries to imitate his adventurous ways.