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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, made in 2016 under the direction of Tim Burton in the Twentieth Century Fox Film studio, was one of the most anticipated films of the year, with a very good cast: it had actors like Eva Green and Samuel L Jackson in the lead roles. The film impressed a lot with its visual effects and novelty, because reading the books I already knew what the story was. However, I tried to look at the action as objectively as possible and not make comparisons, because there were clearly major differences between the book and the film (Miss Peregrine was much older in the book, some children did not fit the descriptions in the book at all, etc.). ). It’s true that they tried to compress far too much of the twisted story of the books into one film, but I can’t help but admit that it was thrilling.

Prolog

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The ɹrst of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After. Like many of the extraordinary things to come, it involved my grandfather, Abraham Portman. Growing up, Grandpa Portman was the most fascinating person I knew. He had lived in an orphanage, fought in wars, crossed oceans by steamship and deserts on horseback, performed in circuses, knew everything about guns and self-defense and surviving in the wilderness, and spoke at least three languages that weren’t English. It all seemed unfathomably exotic to a kid who’d never left Florida, and I begged him to regale me with stories whenever I saw him. He always obliged, telling them like secrets that could be entrusted only to me. When I was six I decided that my only chance of having a life half as exciting as Grandpa Portman’s was to become an explorer. He encouraged me by spending afternoons at my side hunched over maps of the world, plotting imaginary expeditions with trails of red pushpins and telling me about the fantastic places I would discover one day. At home I made my ambitions known by parading around with a cardboard tube held to my eye, shouting, “Land ho!” and “Prepare a landing party!” until my parents shooed me outside.