Hollow City (Honors English 1B, Post #4)

We are four weeks into this trimester and I'm sad to say I haven't finished a book yet (besides Fahrenheit. But I'm not counting that). I read Miss Peregrines in two days, and I've now had Hollow City for 3 weeks. Today I took the time to sit down and actually read for pleasure and it was fantastic. I had to give myself a little refresher on Jacob's world in Hollow City. Jacob and his newly found peculiar friends are exploring their new world, still stuck in 1940 during WWII. As they are trying to get away from Nazi soldiers who are also Peculiar hunters, they stumble across another loop entrance. This is part of the book where the pictures really help. When Riggs described a house, "It was very small, and perched not atop a cloud but on a very large tower constructed entirely from stacked-up railroad ties, the whole thing set smack in the middle of a grassy plateau. It was one of the strangest man-made structures I'd ever seen." (Riggs, 76) This description was perplexing to me as I didn't understand how you could stack up railroad ties and then put a house on top of them. Then on the next page there was a picture and then a clear image in my head. After that I thought what it would be like to be there. What if I was a peculiar? Anyone could be, really. Maybe they just haven't found out about their powers yet. That's one of the many reasons I like science-fiction and fiction in general, they can make you think about what all kind of people could possibly be in the world. As far as I know, I'm human.