Fears of Isolationism One that encompasses themselves in the danger of isolationism will face many hardships and advantages as well. Such as, drowning in mental exhaustion, come across mysterious findings, and through all of this they are putting themselves into more danger.
In the two stories, “Miss peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” and the “Feather Pillow”, they both share a common gothic element of monster. Alicia, a character from the “Feather Pillow”, slowly suffers from a monster underneath her pillow that no one knows about. “Night after night, ever since Alicia had taken to her bed, it had stealthily applied its mouth- its snout, rather- to her temples, sucking out her blood” (Quigora 2). Also, Abe from “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”, is found in the woods describes as, “His shirt soaked with blood, his pants were torn, and one shoe was missing” (Riggs 35), his grandson soon finds out this wasn’t a natural cause of death but from a monster, a hallow. A large part of both of these stories deals with the death of meaningful…show more content… Supernatural is something extraordinary that can’t be explained. In “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” supernatural is found in the children of the orphan home. Every child has a different supernatural trait that is uniquely different like Emma, “…Emma held out an upturned palm, flicked her wrist, and a petite ball of fire flared to life just above her fingers” (Riggs 176). Also in Poe’s story “The Raven”, the raven speaks to the coping man and says, “Quoth the raven, nevermore” (Poe 440), the raven lingers around speaking to the man who is trying to cope with the pain of losing a loved one. The raven is reminding the distraught man that his loved song isn’t returning, making the problem bigger than it already is. The supernatural children and raven symbolize different ideas in the
