Entry #3: Summer Reading Project 2014

"I heard a plane threading the clouds high above us and let my oars drag, neck craning up, arrested by a vision of our little armada from such a height: this world I had chosen, and everything I had in it, and all our precious, peculiar lives, contained in three splinters of wood adrift upon the vast, unblinking eye of the sea. Mercy." (page. 17, Hollow City, Ransom Riggs ) I chose this context of my story because personally I think the author Ransom was trying to hook the reader to read further and further into the story. I chose a context that was closer to the beginning of the book because in a lot of stories there are contexts that hook readers ether near the beginning or the end of the read to hook you into the next book which is the case in this story since there is a third book coming out hopefully soon. In this context Jacob Portman, (a peculiar) is talking to us about the beginning of his journey after the end of a very scary one in the first book Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children. He has no idea what lies ahead, and what obstacles people (or things) may throw at him, but in this context all he can think of is the water, the boat, and his new family beside him. Jacob wants us (the readers) to go on this adventure with him, and I did. All I can say was it was a very memorable adventure. I was hooked.

The Creepy, yet beautiful Ocean Jacob and his peculiar friends were
rowing on,