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I'm back talking about Peter Pan chapter by chapter.
This is chapter 11.
It has one of the saddest things in it.
It has some interesting emotional stuff going on.
And I didn't quite expect that from this book because I, well, despite the fact that this
is my second read through and I mentioned previously that I did cry a lot throughout
this book, I had forgotten about this one detail, which I'm surprised I had because
it was, I'm pretty sure, adapted into the Hook movie and I really enjoyed that movie
as a kid.
And I'm surprised this detail glossed over me.
But anyway, Peter, part of the reason that he dislikes mothers so much, it's not that
he doesn't know anything about mothers, it's that he actively dislikes mothers because
he only remembers their bad points and none of their good points because he went to his
mother and he flew to his window is the idea.
And when he went there, the window was barred and there was another little boy who had been
replaced or who was his replacement.
And that's really interesting.
So that kind of makes me wonder when Peter said that he heard his parents talking about
what he would be when he grew up and he ran away on the day he was born, did he really
run away on the day he was born because he heard his parents talking about that or is
that the story that he tells everyone else and that he tells himself to make himself
feel better about the fact that he ran away and has no parents and has no home and just
lives in the Neverland with the Lost Boys.
And I think that's interesting to think about from a story perspective and to analyze that
thought but I also just want to sit on this thought for a little bit that Peter is the
one lost boy.
He's like unique among the Lost Boys for many reasons but one such reason is that he went
home and he found that he wasn't wanted or welcomed anymore.
At least he believes this is true, the narrator says.
So we don't know if it's actually the truth or not.
It's just what the narrator says that Peter thinks is true.
And anyway, in either way whether he actually did it or he pretended it and he believes
it in that way or because of that reason Peter is the one lost boy and he's the most lost
of the Lost Boys because he, the other Lost Boys have hope that they'll go home and they'll
be accepted by their parents and if they're not accepted by their parents the darlings
will adopt them which let's be honest they probably will because it's that kind of funny
world.
And yet despite the fact that it's a funny world there's still room for tragedy and there's
still room for sadness and there's the sadness and the tragedy of Peter that he is so hurt
and he was so hurt.
Oh, oh wow.
He was so hurt that he'll never forget that, he'll never get over it and he'll never come
back.
He'll always be in the Neverland.
And I just realized right now that when Hook stabbed him in chapter eight or so and well
when he bit him it said and then he felt betrayed it said that a boy never forgets his first
betrayal basically and that all he does is trust that she'll treat him fairly and I wonder
and that the difference between Peter and other boys is that he always forgot and he
was always shocked when Hook would betray him let's say which you could assume has happened
many times and or treated him unfairly I should say not betrayed treated unfairly and I wonder
if I brought it betrayal now I'm kind of contrasting it with unfair treatment I wonder if Peter
thought that was unfair of his mother to replace him to bar the window and despite the fact
the book says that he always remembers or rather always forgets his you know that first
betrayal of trust or that first unfairness that's what it's the first unfairness that
Peter never really did forget that unfairness of his mother whether it was the first or
not if he forgot all the others it's basically the first to him and he remembers and holds
deep in his heart the fact that she replaced him and he finds that to be unfair because
a mother's love as Wendy tells her story it should spring eternally and a mother's love
should be something that a child can always count on to be there and to cause her to be
there waiting for him and apparently she wasn't or that's what he knows that's what he thinks
and that's really sad that's really cold and I'm fighting a cold I'm not about to cry here
not but not that I would I wouldn't hide it if I was trying to cry that's the thing or
if I was about to cry but um it is emotional it is poignant and it is stinging and it is
interesting that Barry talks about this and with all the kind of adult things that I've
talked about here all the danger all the you know potential death and scalping and you
know being killed by pirates or being drowned to death by mermaids or by just the cold sea
you would think that this emotional thing wouldn't be as hard-hitting as it is but it
is and it's it's every it's every bit of danger as everything else in the story and it's every
bit true and it's a little shocking and sad that this is a reality or this is a possible
reality that no mother's love won't last that a mother's love isn't going to be enough a
mother's love will not be there for you forever and Barry makes some interesting comments
that the children basically abuse a mother's love which I can see as being true and they
will selfishly regard her and they'll selfishly calculate how far they can push things before
they've gone too far and they always feel they can go a little bit more because again
that's the power of mother's love but Peter's seen the failing in that which is a true thing
I think to some extent and it's definitely a warning to children that they shouldn't
take their mother's love for granted they shouldn't push her too far and whether or
not a mother's love truly is eternal and whether or not she can always forgive you for everything
you do that's up for debate but it's not something you should test I think and that's kind of
the takeaway I get from this chapter anyway what did you think about it what do you think
about my my ponderings on mother's love do you think Peter's remembering this first unfairness
like I do or do you think are you taking things a totally different way I'd be curious to
hear and I didn't even talk about the fact that the lost boys all want to go home with
the darling children and that they're convinced by Peter's story his revelation is shocking
revelation that he does remember his mother and he doesn't remember his window and that
he you know was barred from it that that impels the children to go there it's rather interesting
I'd love to hear your thoughts on it and on more of the book as I continue to talk about
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