For the Gothic novel, I've chosen this book, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Jacob, who has had a grandpa who used to tell him the fantasy tales, got his life messed up after his grandpa's mysterious death, or murder. He used to believe in those stories, and sometimes terrified, until he turned old enough to open his eyes to realistic world.
Before his grandpa died, he was turning old and seemed to be getting little crazier. Even the day he died, Jacob and all his family didn't believe the grandpa was sane. Then left with mysterious words, the grandpa was gone forever.
For a long after his death, Jacob suffered severe mental break down. Then he finally got a chance to go figure out the secret of the grandpa's words. But as he go deeper into the mystery, the more everything seems to be complicated and mysterious.
Despite how grandpa used to tell him about haunting ghosts and creatures, nobody, even Jacob wasn't going to trust his story. I wondered why couldn't grandpa Portman had explained and told seriously about the truth to Jacob. If he predicted someday, danger might come for himself and his grandson, he should have considered preparing Jacob while he still could help him. Also if they truly loved grandpa Portman as a family, they should have more faith in him, and listened to him no matter how nonsense it was. As a family who love, they should have paid more attention to him and cared about him.
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