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This is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com.

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This time I'm talking about Peter Pan Chapter 9.

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Apparently a never bird never forgets, and we're going to talk about that.

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So Peter is facing death. He's already said that he's willing to accept death.

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And just see it as another adventure to go on.

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And all of a sudden we have this thing floating on the water.

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He thinks it's a piece of paper from the kite, but as it gets closer and as time goes on,

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as the water is nipping at his feet before it swallows him, which I love that turn of phrase,

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Barry is not only a very imaginative writer in the scenarios that he's creating,

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and in the whimsical things that we're getting, but also his turns of phrase at places are very lyrical,

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and very beautiful, and very evocative.

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The idea of the sea nibbling, that's what it was, not nipping, nibbling at his feet before it swallows him.

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I mean, yeah, he will be swallowed by the ocean. He will drown, he will die,

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and it will be as if he was consumed by the waters of the ocean.

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And therefore starting it off with saying that the water was nibbling at him

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before it proceeded to be able to completely swallow him is perfect,

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because it very accurately describes the consumption, the destruction of his life,

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his soul, his flesh by the waters, and it gives them a certain amount of life.

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At least, you know, it creates the image of the ocean being this living thing that eats things,

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and in order to eat, you have to kill, and even plant matter.

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You're detaching it from its source of life, and then you're consuming it yourself,

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and it's just a great evocative image, and yeah, I think it's wonderful.

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I've heard that kids, boys especially, will obsess over dinosaurs,

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because there's something primal, and they like the idea of,

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well, they specifically like learning the names of dinosaurs,

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because they feel like having a name to the thing and knowing things about it gives them power over it,

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and it's something that could eat them, and kill them, and consume them,

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because it's so large and so terrible, and having that, you know,

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gives them some sort of sense of control over those things.

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I don't know how accurate that is, but it kind of makes me think of how big and powerful the ocean is,

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and how terrible it can be, and how deadly it can be to humans,

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and this idea of it consuming Peter directly kind of, well, made me think about that,

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which is why I brought it up, so excuse that tangent, and let me talk about the Nethelbird.

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Apparently, Peter at some point in his life did a favor to the Nethelbird.

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I don't believe it's described in this chapter, and I believe it's described anywhere in the book actually,

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so he had prior good actions that brought him favor, and it feels a little bit like a narrative cheat.

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It feels a little anticlimactic to me, but it also feels clever, and I don't know where you fall on that.

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Did you think it was more of an anticlimactic cheat to get out of things, or did you think it was more clever?

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I don't know, but there's this fun exchange between the Nethelbird and Peter

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where they're speaking loudly and slowly to each other in their own language,

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because they don't understand each other's languages, and I talked about this in my short,

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so I don't really want to belabor it, but it's a funny thing that they can't understand each other,

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so instead they speak like, instead they act like Americans, so quick tangent, a quick anecdote.

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I know somebody who was traveling to a different country, and she was there with a fellow countryman,

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and they were in the market, and she starts doing that.

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She's asking somebody for a red delicious apple, which is the name of an apple, like Granny Smith and things like that,

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so she's asking them in this foreign country, and instead of trying to get a dictionary or whatever and look for an apple,

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she just says, I'd like a red delicious apple, and she says it increasingly loudly, and she says it slowly,

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and that's pretty funny. It's a good gag. It's a good gag to show somebody to be kind of a fool,

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and am I calling Peter and the Nethelbird fools? I guess I am. I guess I am.

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They're definitely uncouth. One of them is an animal, and the other one's a bird.

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No, I'm just kidding. One of them is an animal, and one of them is a young boy who doesn't want to grow up

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and who wants to have adventure and play and really not think about being polite or kind or whatever,

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and I'm not saying you should be polite and kind in a life or death situation necessarily.

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I'm just saying it's funny that we're in this calm after Peter's already embraced his death, basically,

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and then you get to see how their characters are and who they are, and they're both kind of immature silly people.

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They're trying to handle their language barrier differences by speaking loudly and slowly,

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and I think it's really funny. But again, Peter just being rescued by the bird is kind of interesting.

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I can't remember which guy it is, but one of the pirates left his hat on a stave, which is a stave, a stave, a stave.

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Oh, it's a type of staff that was put on Marooner's Rock as a flag or whatever to put people there,

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and then so the Neverbird has Peter get into her nest. That's the point.

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And he... what does he use the stick in there for? He takes the stave out. Oh, I guess it's just a hat.

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He pulls the hat off, and apparently it's big enough that the Neverbird can use it for her eggs,

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and then Peter rides in her nest. But I guess because she's a bird and birds are small and light,

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she and her eggs could float in the hat, but Peter couldn't have floated in the hat.

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He needed the bigger nest to float in, which he sounds like a big bird, but anyway, whatever.

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I don't know. Kind of there's like some... the more you think about it without having like images to know what exactly it looks like,

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and maybe there were illustrations in the book, you could see better the scale of everything.

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It's kind of hard to imagine, but also, you know, this is a world where there are fairies and people fly and things like that,

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and it is a fantasy world, that's why the fact that Barry said, but it's interesting to know that there's this kind of honor

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and there's this reciprocity, and we see Peter's previous good actions being rewarded by causing his life to be saved

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when he's in this deadly situation, and that's kind of fun. This wasn't like a huge chapter.

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It was a very short one, actually, and there's not a ton going on, but there's enough to think about and talk about briefly,

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and it also made me think of some funny stuff, so I thought I'd go ahead and share that with you.

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So thank you for listening. Stay tuned for more. I'm going to continue this journey through Peter Pan, going chapter by chapter.

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I'm excited. I'm really enjoying this, and I'm excited to get to the end, and then finally talk about the book as a whole

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on my Fortress Fiction episode, where I talk about this book's worthiness and its merits and demerits overall,

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and I think it's going to be a lot of fun. So anyway, please check that out. Like, share, subscribe.

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and if you have books that you think I should check out and that you'd like to have given this sort of treatment

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where they're gone through chapter by chapter and talked about briefly each time, or for each chapter,

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Either will do. So until next time, folks, take care, be well, and keep reading.

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