This is MJ back for another chapter by chapter reaction to Jan Berry's Peter Pan.
I'm talking about chapter 3, Come Away, Come Away, and it's a cool chapter.
There's a lot of interesting world building in Lord Fur.
Right now I'm going to talk about Tinkerbells.
So Tinkerbell is a fairy, of course.
Fairies were born from the first last first baby,
breaking them into a thousand pieces and then I guess they propagated from there.
Because there's supposed to be one fairy for every child.
But because children are so sophisticated nowadays, fairies no longer partner with children, I guess.
And more so, or even worse, is that anytime a kid says, I don't believe in fairies,
a fairy falls down and dies.
And also fairies are supposed to be like gender bound to their kids.
So Tink says that she's Peter's fairy.
He says he can't be because she's a lady and he's a gentleman.
And I think that's just really cool. It's a really neat detail.
It's a lot of fun.
I don't think Tinkerbell wants to be Peter's fairy because she wants to help him with things though.
It seems like she has a different interest, especially because this is where we get the famous
thimble kiss thing. Thimble kiss exchange, I should say.
And I mean that on a couple levels.
And it's really interesting that it definitely seems like Tinkerbell is kind of in love with Peter,
even though she has a, let's say, a womanly figure, which it would think means that she's much older than him
and needs to be with a guy who is, you know, post-purity or whatever.
I can't quite tell what age she's supposed to be, but he does have all his baby teeth still.
And that's something that's mentioned. He's got these shiny, light little pearls.
And it's very interesting because Barry points that out.
I'm not 100% sure why. I don't know why he's quite so focused on his little pearl teeth,
his little baby teeth that he's still got. To me that hints that he should be pretty young.
I've got a 10-year-old who's about to lose a baby tooth and have an adult molar come in, so maybe he's 10.
But I was under the impression that Wendy was closer to 12, like 11, and I think Peter and Wendy are supposed to be the same age.
Also, I don't know, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on, like Peter forgets that Wendy was the one who helped him
sew his shadow on, or she did the work, and he celebrates it as if he did the very thing.
And he just has a nature where he's cocky and he gloats and he's very proud of himself.
But also, he has this nature that we'll see develop or highlight a little bit more later, where he forgets.
And it's like he's always forgetting. And there's something a little sad and strange to me about that.
And it's very possible that at one point he did love Tinkerbell and he told her that he loved her,
and seems that they would be best friends forever, whatever that means in that context to children.
And then he promptly forgot it, and she's holding onto that, because every fairy shall forget in the same way the boy does.
Especially a boy like him who doesn't age and has all those adventures.
So I don't know, it's a really interesting...
A lot of interesting stuff going on, like I don't really get the kiss thing. I mean, I do get it and I don't get it,
because I haven't been a kid myself.
But it also seems strange, but I also don't think it was like...
I don't think it was a romantic kiss physiologically, but it definitely was a big deal to them.
And it's not something that's, you know, advisable.
It's definitely something that should be avoided at such a tender age.
But it certainly doesn't happen, I know. I know.
For a fact it does, but it doesn't happen.
But it's definitely more of an innocent side than a non-innocent side.
It's a pretty court-to-age where you physically face it more as something not the kind ofness that...
Wendy likes the lights and has a reaction from hitting the symbol back from Peter,
because she showed him what that was.
And here's the thing, the way that it's really still called really...
I feel like that's the editing or phrase, rather,
that I can't tell if she was screaming because Peterbred pulled her hair
or because of hitting the symbol from Peter.
So I was thinking about picking her up to prevent it from happening or not.
But essentially his speaker doesn't really seem to react to it.
And I don't know what that means, Peter.
Is that not... Is it maybe a symbol of not a new experience for him?
Or is he still at an age where it doesn't really matter,
he's not really someone to check him and...
I think the professor says, maybe today or what, but it's not. It's too soon.
And I don't quite understand what there is to me that I could...
I mean, I love the book, but the thing was, the reason I'm like, oh, god, this is the best...
The first two fiction, I am reading books, I'm reading some of them,
I've never read before, and others I'm reading that I said, excuse me for a second.
And I'm assessing them under the...
Not the quick one, the group, the standard of fiction fiction.
Is this something that's good for children? Is it a good book?
Is it good for children so it makes them better people?
Better, stronger, stronger, more loving people?
Will they be people who help build up the world or will they be people who destroy the world around them?
And you might think, well, okay, here's the good news about it.
It could also affect the destructive or the mysterious.
I don't know, maybe it can be, maybe it can't.
But also the way it's framed here, I don't think...
I think it was a fact and maybe it's right to have the book.
I don't know if he actually got to kiss her back or if he picked it or not.
And I think it's interesting that Barry did that, and I wonder why he did that.
He seems to be okay with shielding less than you might think and being more...
You mean rust or being more...
He's a little more dangerous than you might like or than one might like.
But he plays with the danger in a really skillful way, I think.
And I think it's reason that he's here too.
I think it's something that gets him kind of lost over or not really noticed in the sense that he's talked to.
I'm not saying that it's part of the party's structure because I need to finish this before I can make that decision.
But it's kind of teetered, kind of wobbled, it's kind of immediately in the text.
So I don't feel as badly about it.
But it is really interesting.
So, interestingly, these extremes, you get all this cool fairy lore and all this sweet innocent interaction between these two characters.
Palemba is just kissing, which is a little tedious.
And then, I'm not sure where I'm on.
I'm not decided on yet.
So, anyway, that's it for now.
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