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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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I'm talking about Peter Pan, Chapter 10, as I continue talking about this book, chapter by chapter.

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So this is interesting. Barry sets up the status quo of the happy home for Peter and Wendy and the Lost Boys,

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as well as the Redskins, who are now their friends, all in an effort to make us feel more bitterly or more sharply

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what is going to befall them in the next chapter or two.

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He even hints literally at it as the chapter progresses, and things are going so well for everybody that this will be the last time

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that they will all be together in this house.

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Towards the very end he says that they played this song, and it was a creepy song,

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and there were these shadows that they played with, and little did they know that there would be actual creeping shadows

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that were going to get them and to attack them soon, and it would really scare them and take them away from the stuff that they love.

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So that's really interesting. I love how he ratchets up the tension.

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In order to do that, we get some really fun stuff, some really cozy home life stuff,

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where the children are at tea, I'm assuming like four o'clock tea, because they're British,

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and they have pretend mugs that they're drinking pretend tea at.

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They're really complaining against each other for different things,

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and because Wendy has a strict no hitting each other policy while we're at table,

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they've come up with this thing where they have to raise their hands and wait for her to call on them,

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and then they say, I complain of so-and-so for doing such-and-such, and Wendy accepts that.

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But apparently, as boys will do, as children will do, they abuse the system,

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and they either all raise their hands to complain of each other too much, or they don't raise their hands at all,

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and they're just saying, I complain of so-and-so, I complain of this, I complain of that,

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and he goes through this scene illustrating the way that they're all complaining of each other for doing different things,

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and at one point, even the narrator says, so-and-so said this, that was telling, or that was, yeah, I think it was that was telling,

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and then so-and-so says, I complain of such-and-such, and it's funny, it's really funny,

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and there's even the thing with, I think it's slightly he wants to be the baby,

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he wants to be like, he wants to sit in father's chair, he wants to be father, he wants to be a baby,

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he wants to be something important, and he gets all worked up, and Michael tells him, no, he can't be the baby,

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and then like a couple minutes later, Michael says that he doesn't want to be the baby,

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he complains about that to Wendy, and says he wants to get out of it, and she's like, no,

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a baby is such a cozy thing to have in a house that we have to have a baby in a crib,

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and I don't think there's a crib, I think they're just pretending that he's in a crib, and yet that makes it all work,

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so again, the power of pretend and the power of play is so fun, and it's so endearing, and it really is rather magical,

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and I like how it's working on one level, just it's telling the story, and it's telling of these kids playing and pretending,

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and that's magical in and of itself, and it makes for such a happy atmosphere that,

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and the chapter is even called the happy home, that it really does give a sense of, I don't know, like warmth and wholeness and wholesomeness,

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and then as Barry starts peppering in that this is going to be the last time, and that there's bad stuff coming along the way,

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it kind of does create tension just by him setting things up very nicely and then saying, but it's not going to last,

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and I think it's very effective and very good, and I like it, I don't know how old the technique of going one way

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and then setting it up to spring back and go another direction is, but I like it, and it's very effective and very good,

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and I think it's very well done here, it's very skillfully done here, and I really appreciate it, so that's it for now.

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I want to hear people's thoughts about what's going on in these books, what's going on in these books chapter by chapter,

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and even in the book as a whole. I will be having a book chat covering the full book at the end of this book,

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so I'll finish it and then I'll do the last chapter by itself, and then after that I'll do one more,

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I'll do a fortress fiction episode where I talk specifically about this episode, about this book as a whole and its merits

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and whether or not I think it belongs in the fortress fiction, and anyway, I will continue doing that,

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and I'm continuing to work on my own book about magical bugs battling monsters, and once I get that one published,

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I'll let you all know about it and I'll share different things about it here, because I think you'll like it,

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if you like Peter Pan, I think you'll like this book, so anyway, until next time folks, take care, be well, and keep reading.

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