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Jayline Lopez
Professor Malvin
ENGL 114A
16 November 2015
Exercise 3.2, The Dialogue
Hopkins: "Morlocks... have very obvious and unsightly mutations." (5) They are abnormal just as
all other mutants from X-men, but they are cast away and unaccepted. Have you ever
experienced this sort of situation between peculiars?
Miss Peregrine: It is saddening you mention this, but yes, it has happened between peculiars.
"Some years ago... peculiars with dangerous ideas... believed they had discovered a method by
which the function of the time loops could be perverted to confer upon the user a kind of
immortality; not merely the suspension of aging, but the complete reversal of it." (238)
Hopkins: I see... So, what exactly happened with these peculiars?
Miss Peregrine: It was disappointing that they did not change their minds. Peculiars, ymbrynes,
and even my own brothers "ventured into the Siberian tundra to conduct their hateful
experiment" (259) An experiment that turned into an immense explosion.
Hopkins: No one survived?
Miss Peregrine: Yes, but not exactly. "Others might call the state of being they subsequently
assumed a living damnation." (259)
Hopkins: I'm assuming that just as Morlocks, these peculiars "... have chosen to live
underground" (5) in order to hide their complexions.

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Miss Peregrine: If only that were the case! After this event the peculiars were never the same.
"Weeks later there began a series of attacks upon peculiars by awful creatures who, apart from
their shadows, could not be seen..." (259) These creatures turned out to be my brothers, and other
peculiars who followed. But they were not peculiars, the were "hollowgast--because their hearts,
their souls, are empty." (260)
Hopkins: Just as I suspected, it is unbelievable how two of the same,abnormal creatures prey on
each other.
Miss Peregrine: That is the sad truth, but it is reality.