Book 4 Review

5 Reasons Why Jacob from Hollow City by Ransom Riggs Is a Hero  

Jacob is a special kind of guy, peculiar to a few people he knows, but just a normal teenager to others who don't know what he is capable of doing.  Jacob is a special breed of human who has a special power that can help save others like himself.  

1-     Jacob found the other Peculiars 

Jacob found others like him throughout these extremely far-fetched stories his Grandpa used to tell him.  Not a single soul believed the stories besides Jacob, and Jacob took them to heart after he saw him get killed viciously by a beast only certain people could see; he was one of them.  In Hollow City Jacob led his friends and fellow peculiars along hoping to find someone who could heal their ymbryne, a shape shifter named Miss Peregrine who was stuck in bird form.  Jacob has the ability to point out HollowGasts which are the beasts who killed his Grandpa; Jacob gets a very harsh pain in his stomach when he sees one or senses that one is nearby.  This helped lead the way to finding someone to help them out.

2-     Jacob arrived right in time to save them

After Jacob found the other peculiars HollowGasts found them unfortunately as well and started to follow and chase them.  They had to get away from their little island in 1940 and travel by a life boat to a different island.  Jacob and his squad ended up on land connected to London and ended up travelling back in time even farther than 1940 to a place with talking animals that were being harassed by a HollowGast and of course he pulled thru and killed it.  Finally, he learned that his power is stronger than he thought and he can tame the HollowGasts.

3-     He got everyone to like him

Not all of the peculiars liked him at first.  Almost all of them except a few were very suspicious of him and how he is peculiar.  At first his ability didn't show, in fact it didn't show until the first hollow found them and Jacob doubled over in pain.  He saved their lives so of course they would have to accept him and begin to like him, that’s the normal thing to do.

4-     Jacob was a leader of some sort

After he saved their lives, himself and another peculiar named Emma became the leaders or something of that nature of the bunch of the kids.  Emma had the ability to make fire with her hands and throw it and make fireballs, it is pretty Gucci if you ask me.  They made the decisions for the crew and led them everywhere, giving out commands and the other kids listened to them.  The duo of Jacob and Emma also saved their butts when they were in London and bombs were falling, they pulled them into a church and saved them from being killed.  They also found three more peculiars when they were there. 

5-     Jacob was an all-around good guy       

Jacob was just a good guy in general.  He always listened and never disobeyed anyone.  He only did one time where they were almost captured but he disobeyed the German Wights, or soldiers out to catch them with the HollowGasts, and he saved their lives doing that as well.  He was a sweetheart to Emma, and cared about every single kid out of the bunch, even the jerk Horace who was always disrespectful.  All in all, he was a good role model for the peculiar children.