This is MJ Munoz coming back for another chapter by chapter discussion of Peter Pan Simon chapter 4
And what does he want to talk about? Oh, yeah, Captain Hook. Captain Hook has like awesome literary
Lineage and he also gets to job
Long John Silver from Treasure Island as well as Blackbeard the real existing pirate
And what I mean by that is they make Captain Hook sound scarier and cooler by saying that he was the only
pirate or guy to stand up to Blackbeard the pirate and like he took no guff from Long John Silver or barbecue and
If you've read Treasure Island
Long John Silver is one tough customer and hearing that Captain Hook went toe-to-toe to him or with him a literary figure and also
Blackbeard the pirate a real historical pirate. That's pretty scary impressive and that's that's pretty cool
I really like that. I think that's a little stroke of genius from mr. Berry there
Totally, that's a really cool thing to do and I think it's pretty neat that Berry did that like I said before
I don't have to pick myself up too much
But it's also interesting because Peter Pan is very happy that Captain Hook is such a deadly enemy and he
much because
John that all his men under him is a captain
Captain Peter
Have to swear to him one thing and John is shocked surprised
He's nervous about it and he says that if we were going to all-out war one on one with Captain Hook
that you can't kill him you need to let me kill him and
That's funny that's cool and it's kind of interesting take and an interesting
what I'm going to say is it's an interesting moment of characterization for Peter and
It kind of muddies things because it's hard to tell well when children play
It's hard to tell what's facts and what's fiction. Often times in my house. We will say oh
You know my wife and I will hear someone call mom or dad and we what is it? What's going on?
What about you were playing? It's the end. Oh, okay great. It's mom and dad in the end. Not us other people
or some other people so much to hurt or they're
Angry and it turns out it's not actually real they're just playing and you don't know that and
sometimes even the thing they don't know that and
One instance of that is this relates to the
Peter says that there's a pirate stick somewhere as a kid to find him. There's a pirate asleep somewhere
I need to pardon on Indian anyway, he's asleep and
um
will the boys to this hacienda
Touch all of them
So I wake him up first to make sure he's awake or have a fair test of height in me, and then I kill him.
And I think that's pretend, but then again it might not be.
Like he literally cut off the crocodile.
So why would he actually kill this man?
And I mean it's absurd, but it's also, I don't know, it's a fantastical because it's plain, it's funny, and it's funny.
And I don't know, it's a really interesting, like a look into the child's mind and the imagination in this book.
And it's just, like I find it so remarkable because it's, I don't know, some of it makes me uncomfortable honestly because of how raw and real it is.
But it's all tempered by the fact that it's all imagination and play, but the Neverland is real.
They only get to Neverland because this is also, I'm talking about from Chapter 4, the, it's not called the Scythe Guru, it's called the Scythe.
Anyway, the Neverland wants to find them. That's why they are able to get to the Neverland because it wants, comes to them basically.
Which is a really interesting concept of what does that mean?
Earlier in another chapter, 2 or so, Barry describes how everybody's Neverland is distinct and it's tailored to each child,
but unless we've gone near sleep and you've dreamed of it, I guess, you know, we remind those two.
And the darlings, well the three of them all have different things in their Neverland, and when they go to Peter's Neverland,
all three of them have aspects of their Neverland brought to life. They're in that reality.
And even in that earlier chapter, it references the different Neverlands. It talks about them all.
When you stood next to each other, you'd say, oh that one, I can see that one has his nose or he has his eyes or he has his chin or whatever.
So, like, it sounds like, talking about the collective unconscious, how old is that concept?
Did it predate Barry's writing of this book in academia or was that concept partially formed by people thinking about things and imagining things
and they were quite put to it that it was the collective unconscious? I don't know, and I don't know,
but it's something very exciting to think about and to ponder, and I know it makes me look all the more fascinating to think that, like,
the subliminally talking about these psychological concepts. And I know collective unconscious is kind of just a hook-and-loop thing,
but I don't know, I think there's some validity to it. But either way, as a story-wise, it's fantastic and amazing and really cool.
And I think it's been linked to that in the chapter, which is kind of wild. But also, you know, iron-tiding, very cool.
So, that's the story for now. I will have a full review of Peter Pan going on for description.
It'll probably be out before I finish with the series because of the way things are timed out, but anyway, you can find that at nvwunius.com.
You can find all these that have strung together, basically, at nvwunius.com as well. I've created a special page for those.
Now, I'll immediately post them on this special page, and also this should be a playlist, so if you want to get a more,
all the chapter-by-chapter reviews I give out through the book, you can do that. So, anyway, thanks for watching, take care.
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