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Literary Techniques Used In Miss Avocet's Hand

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Jacob Portman is a sixteen year old boy who grows up listening to his grandfather 's stories about living in a mysterious island, being forcefully separated from his parents, fighting dreadful wars, and being friends with peculiar children with supernatural abilities, eventually Jacob grows into a teenager he eventually stops believing in grandpa Portman stories but still manages to keep a close relationship with him, -perhaps the closest relationship he 's had with anyone else. One day Grandpa Portman is killed mysteriously in the woods, Jacob then sets out on a mission to discover the meaning of his last words. Symbols evident in the book: The Apple: Before Jacob and Emma kiss, Emma gives an apple and gives it to Jacob while still being …show more content…

This is a very exasperated moment as Jacob believed that no one was living in the house. Miss Avocet 's Hands "Miss Avocet looked helplessly at her hands, trembling in her lap like a broken-winged bird." (169) This simile compares Miss Avocets incapacity and distress as to the keednapping of her friend Miss Peregrine, the author compares her trembling hands to a harmed bird, this comparison is on point as she is also an ymbryne and can turn into a bird. Children during the Second World War: The second world war was one of the major transformative events in history, this war caused many difficulties for children, as they had to be separated from their families and like grandpa Portman they faced extreme challenges. Children in the United Kingdom were directly affected by german air raids, and compelled to flee to the countryside in an arrangement called Operation Pied Piper which was meant to remove 3.5 million children from harm 's

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