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Not only does this show Jacob’s developing maturity, but it also demonstrates how a pattern of lies can damage a relationship—Jacob continues hiding the truth from his dad, because based on past lies, he’s afraid his dad won’t believe him.
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Early life
Jacob's parents are Franklin and Maryann Portman. Abraham Portman suspected his grandson was peculiar, and had an ymbryne come visit to confirm it when Jacob was a toddler. Abe played an important role in Jacob's childhood, telling him stories about his past, including stories of hollowgasts and the peculiar children residing in Miss Peregrine's loop. At six, Jacob dreamed of being an explorer, and was encouraged by Abe. Jacob was fascinated by his grandfather's stories as a child, but stoppe...
Jacob Portman is first seen as a young child. He discusses how his grandfathershowed him photos of the peculiar children, but grows up believing these tales were false and figments of his grandfather's imagination. Jacob receives a concerning phone call from his grandfather while working at Smart Aid. Because of the severity of the call Jacob calls his father and tells him about the conversation, which Franklin dismisses. Jacob calls up his friend Ricky Pickeringwho drives him back to his hou...
At the beginning of the Hollow City, Jacob Portman doubts his ability to keep all of the children safe, for he doesn't know how to completely use his peculiarity. As the story progresses, his peculiarity develops the more he uses it. While deciding whether to leave the children and go back to his normal life or not, he is sleepwalking. At the end of his dream, Abraham reveals to him "Don't fight the pain, that's the key.. It's telling you something. Welcome it, let it speak to you. The pain s...
Physical
Jacob is described as a skinny person. Emma has called him handsome, though it could be partially because they were dating at the time.
Personality
Jacob describes himself as "cautious by nature, a planner- someone who likes to know what's around the next corner and the corner after that." After entering the peculiar world, where everything was uncertain and dangerous at the time, he had to become "flexible and sure-footed and brave." The new Jacob is ready for anything, while the old one, which has not been completely erased, wants something to hang on to. The old Jacob tends to put off thinking about things he doesn't want to think about.
Peculiarity
Jacob is meant to be a librarian of the Library of Souls. It is revealed at the end of Chapter 8 and the beginning of Chapter 9 in the first book that, like his grandfather, Jacob has the ability to see hollows, unlike other people, peculiar or not, who could only see their shadows. Jacob later finds that he is able to talk to and control hollows and starts to develop it. Two times after he and many hollows get sleep-dusted, he comes out able to control all of them at once, up to dozens. Asid...
Abraham is Jacob's grandfather, who immigrated from Poland to Wales and then, finally, to America. Growing up, Jacob calls him the most fascinating person he knew, and the two were extremely close.Due to Abe's knowledge of peculiars, he is initially discredited as being senile. It was he who told Jacob stories of the children's home and was very insistent that Jacob believes him, as he was aware of Jacob's peculiarity, he himself sharing the talent. His stories made a six-year-old Jacob want...
At first glance, Emma mistook Jacob for Abraham and grew increasingly angry at the prospect of Abe having grandchildren, since he had once promised such things to her. After Miss Peregrine confirmed his human and genealogical status, she warmed to him, initially regarding him as the bearer of bad news. She befriends him easily, flirting all the while. His feelings for her contributes to why he decided to abandon his normal life for the peculiar world. The two demonstrate easy cooperation when...
After ending his romantic relationship with Emma, Jacob eventually falls in love with and enters another relationship with Noor. She finds it difficult to believe what Jacob and his friends are saying about the peculiar world, and is reluctant to go with them. However, after Jacob takes over from H in rescuing her from Leo Burnham, she takes his hand despite telling him she doesn't trust him. In the process of the ensuing escape from New York, Noor warms up to him. They have a connection over...
His middle name, Magellan, is the surname of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. This reflects Jacob’s early ambition to be an explorer.
Still, Jacob is unhappy with his own life—he has only one friend, he struggles to get along with his parents, and he dreads spending his life working for his mom’s drug store chain. Then, suddenly, Jacob’s life shifts dramatically when his grandfather is killed by what seems like one of the monsters he described, and Jacob becomes anxious ...
Later that morning Jacob meets Enoch, a boy who creates little clay soldiers that can actually move, called homunculi. His skill is taking life from one thing and giving it to another, and he shows Jacob the mouse heart that he put in the soldier to make it move.
Oct 27, 2018 · Jacobs says that it was “love at first sight” when he entered the gym. Although his motivation was revenge, he ended up with an adoration for discipline. “I immediately fell in love with...
Jacob Flanders falls in love with her even though she has a reputation as a vapid and promiscuous woman. Fanny Elmer: Fanny Elmer is an insecure young woman. She worries that she is not educated enough to be with Jacob Flanders, so she tries to develop an appreciation of literature and art to bond with him. The narrator
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