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For this lesson, I read chapter 5 of "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". In this chapter, Jacob, unwilling to let the secrets go, chooses to explore the remains of the orphanage. His feelings in this chapter come out of nowhere and it's hard to tell what he's going to do next. At the site of the remains, Jacob discovers a chest of pictures of the same kids his grandfather showed him as a kid. There's just one difference; these pictures didn't look fake which meant they were real and absolutely terrifying.

This chapter is where Jacob starts to realize that what he's really looking into isn't something he'd like to know. He starts to believe the house is haunted and just as he comes to that conclusion, the kids come home. The same kids who were killed in that orphanage years ago came home and found Jacob there, thinking he was his grandfather Abe. When they realized he wasn't Abe, they ran. He followed a girl in particular into a sort of crawling space in the forest until he lost her at the end. Jacob came to the conclusion that there was never a girl or kids and that he was more insane than he thought. He stuck with this as he walked back to the pub to find his dad but no one knew who he was and his dad wasn't in sight. The end of this chapter reveals that Jacob is now in September 3rd, 1940; this is the exact day that the orphanage was blown up by army planes.

In conclusion, the chapter was thrilling and picked the story back up quickly. I believe the author intended to slow the story down in chapters 2 to 4 to keep the reader's expectations low for chapter 5. Once again, I spotted many compare and contrasts but there was still no cause and effect (unless you go into the itty bitty details). I was surprised at this chapter because I didn't expect something so strange to happen.