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This is MJ. These are my quick thoughts on Peter Pan, Chapter 5.

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Jane Barry is an incredible visionary writer.

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Barry, that is, Hook invented the double cigar holder.

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Well, so, anyway, let me go back to clarify what I mean.

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Jane Barry put things in this book that are extremely iconic images, and I'm impressed by them.

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A lot of the things I noticed early in the book I realized were in the Disney adaptation, the animated one,

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and I think some of them were in Hook, and there are other places, but there's a lot of striking images that he makes in prose

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that you can kind of see in your mind's eye that end up in adaptations.

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So one of them is Captain Hook's double cigar holder thing, so he smokes two cigars at the same time,

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which he created himself in the book, and I looked it up and it seems like he really is the guy who created them.

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The other thing is the foreshadows of the kids flying in the nursery on the curtains that the parents see from outside,

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the ticking croc, Peter playing the pipes, the underground tree house, there's lots of other good stuff.

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Another striking image that I have, or that was in this chapter specifically,

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because that stuff was kind of scattered all over the book, but another striking iconic image that should be, or is, whatever,

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is the island coming to life for Peter.

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The narrator says that as Peter returns to Neverland, the island awakens to him.

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Somehow there is a level of sentience to the Neverland, and something about that place has a direct effect on the characters who inhabit it.

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So like, the mermaids, I think, are a little lazier.

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The fairies sleep in, and when Peter comes back, the mermaids kind of get into action,

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and the fairies know that it's not time for them to be sleeping anymore.

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The Lost Boys and the Indians on the island, they won't actually kill each other, they'll just insult each other and things like that.

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And that's all really interesting, and I don't know what Barry's trying to say with that.

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I don't understand what it means, and I'm curious if there is a deeper meaning or some sort of significance to it,

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or is it just something whimsical that he said on the fly?

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I don't know, because I don't remember at this point if it holds true, if it continues to hold true throughout the book,

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that it's something that's mentioned, but it is definitely something here, and it has an effect on the characters and the way they behave.

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And they're also actually, previously, when they were flying towards the island, it says that the Neverland was approaching the children.

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They were coming towards Peter and the Darling children, and it can only be found when you, or when it wants to find you,

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I think is what the phrasing was in the flight, I think is the name of the chapter, which should have been chapter four.

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Anyway, I'm not sure what that means, that the island is alive, and I also am trying to think,

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if the island is alive, if it's some sort of sentience, and these children inhabit it,

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and it's kind of created from the children's imaginings, and there are parts of the Neverland that we see described here

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as being things that Wendy and Michael and John have all dreamt of.

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So is it the Darling's Neverland? Does it change her who's visiting it?

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Does Peter neglect those aspects of it that are specific to the Darling children, doesn't realize them because of his forgetfulness,

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or because his lack of care or concern about those sorts of things, a lack of care about the details?

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Or is it something else? And also, why is Peter the trigger?

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Why is it that the Neverland awakens for him and kind of goes to sleep or settles into a lower state of activity when he's gone?

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I know that Peter came from, it says, or he says he ran away from home when he was a baby

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because his parents were talking about what he was going to be when he grew up, so he said,

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I'm never going to grow up instead. But I don't know that that's actually true,

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especially because the Lost Boys are said to have fallen out of their cribs, and if they're not claimed in seven days, they get stuck there.

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And the reason why there's no Lost Girls is because girls are far too clever to fall out of their perimulators,

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actually, their baby carriages, their strollers, which I think is a wonderful compliment to women and girls.

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And anyway, it's interesting because, like, is Peter this mythic, time-old individual?

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It doesn't seem like it because he said he, well, did he say he ran away to Kensington Gardens

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or he lived in Kensington Gardens for some time? I'm not sure.

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I don't know how old he is, how long ago he went into the Neverland or anything like that,

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but it's just really interesting to think that for whatever reason, maybe because it sounds like boys come and go,

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Lost Boys come and go, and the six that are there with Peter at the time of this book are the six current occupants of the Neverland.

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And I almost wonder if, like, the Neverland has kind of become tailored to Peter

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and formed a stronger connection with him or a, I don't know, like, almost a symbiotic relationship with him

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because he's a boy who's been in the Neverland for so long. And I don't know.

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I'm not sure we were supposed to think this hard about it, but just, you know, I can accept it on the face value and I can just roll with it.

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But at the same time, there are things, flags waving in my head about the, like, thematic resonance

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that some of these more interesting, stranger concepts might have.

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And also, you know, also kind of leading me to think or wonder what kind of thoughts Barry had

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and what kind of things he was intending for the children to know or to think or to learn

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as they were listening to the story, as they were reading the story.

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