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This is MJ, back to talk about Peter Pan. This time we're in chapter two and in my reaction

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to this I'm going to be talking about how, again, how honest and open the book is and

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how weird it is. Well, how honest and open it is and how weird it is. So first of all,

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like George Banks, or George Darling is at fault here. He blames himself. He and his

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wife and their dog commiserate over the fact that the children have been abducted by Peter

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Pan. And this is weird framing device where they're talking about how they commiserate

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together with their dog and then they go into the actual events of the night. So it's kind

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of like a flashback is being framed by the narrative. And yeah, he's like super immature.

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He's acting like a toddler. He's stamping his feet. He refuses to take his medicine,

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which he did. And Eliza, the servant found for that for him and, you know, put in the

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proper place. And it's just strange how immature and petty he is. And it's an odd depiction

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for him. It's almost like an old depiction of like a toxic male or something. And I do

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think that's strange, but I think he's a more nuanced character than that. If you really

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look at how he reacts to things. I don't know. I don't know that Barry's... Mrs. Darling

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is like a good woman and she is depicted in a very positive light. And George is not so

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depicted, is depicted in like a less positive light. He's not bad though. I don't think

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Barry thinks he's bad. I did just think he has, you know, whatever problems. He's a frail

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mortal and it's more about maybe insulting the class and their pride. I'm not sure. I

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don't know what class Barry was from, but you know, he is kind of insulting towards

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the class and the pride. Like, you know, the parents... Anyway, what happens is because

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of his pride and the fact that he gets mad at Nana and wants to throw her out because

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everybody likes her better than they like him. They're sympathizing with her when he

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did something nasty to her, which was make him drink, make her drink his medicine that

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he didn't want to drink because he was being a baby about it. He throws her out and that

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night Peter goes into the house, into the room and he's able to take the kids out of

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the nursery. And again, this happens because, well, I mean, Mrs. Darling has her fault as

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well. She wanted to go to this party down the street at someone's house because she

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loves parties so much. And instead of staying there with her children, they went, but also

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he was the one who took the dog out. So I actually find it interesting how Barry frames

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it as they could both be seen as being at fault for throwing Nana out or for presenting

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the opportunity for Peter Pan to come in and take their kids away. Had Nana been there,

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I'm presuming like he wouldn't have thrown her out. Well, I guess had George not been

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petty, he wouldn't have thrown Nana out. Had... What's the word? I can't remember. Had she

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not wanted to go, Mrs. Darling not wanted to go to the party, they would have stayed there

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with the kids to protect them. Even if Nana wasn't in there, they would have heard some

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ruckus and then gone after Peter or the kids or whatever and been able to stop it or possibly

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been able to stop it. We don't know for sure. But it's interesting because I would say the

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narrative firmly places some blame on both of them and Nana did no wrong. That's the

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point. She's a good dog. But yeah, it's really interesting because... Yeah, it's just so

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strange how it frames the parents in the particular way it does, the narrative does. And then,

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which is very realistic, it's an honesty that we don't like to express because it's not

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nice to say how petty adults can be and how terrible adults can be and that's not the

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way it should be. And definitely in our fiction, those sorts of things are not idealized. You

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either have a type of company that is evil adults or you have noble people who are doing

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the best they can. And George is a little petty and a little unnoble, but he's not doing

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the best he can. And it's interesting because he still wants to be, he still desperately

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wants to be loved by his family and appreciated by them and admired by them. That's like,

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that fatal conceit or that flaw in him is the source of so many of these problems, which

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is pretty interesting. And Mrs. Darling comes off basically seemingly really good except

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for her... not the procession, it's her desire to go out and socialize and have fun with

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other adults and be with the kids. That's kind of interesting. One more thing, yeah,

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so there's like other crazy world building. First of all, it states that Nana is holding

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Mr. Darling's hand, which I guess is the thing where dogs do the world with their paw in

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their hand, I don't know. But besides that, there's this mention of stars being like sentient,

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semi-sentient and being able to communicate by blinking. And there are small or young,

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I'm not sure if they're small or community-based size, but for young of being small in age,

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there'd be small stars that are said to be communicating with you and helping them out.

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And they actually look at him or whatever and they communicate with you. Now is your

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chance for the buildings around you to be doing their nursery for kids. Sounds really weird,

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but it's not as weird as it sounds. But I think we hear a little bit more about stars in chapter

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three. But yeah, it's really interesting how are stars sentient and how do they communicate

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with you through blinking, as they look at the stars and then they blink and see where

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they're going. The way everything is going is really, really interesting and I find it

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fascinating and I don't think you're supposed to take it literally, but you could take it

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literally if you want to and be rich. But you could also just take this very figurative,

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very flowery language and be drawn in by that and be delighted by that. And I really like

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this and I'm excited to move on to the rest of the book.