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This is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer.

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You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com

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I'm back talking about Peter Pan chapter by chapter.

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This is chapter 11.

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It has one of the saddest things in it.

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It has some interesting emotional stuff going on.

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And I didn't quite expect that from this book because I, well, despite the fact that this

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is my second read through and I mentioned previously that I did cry a lot throughout

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this book, I had forgotten about this one detail, which I'm surprised I had because

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it was, I'm pretty sure, adapted into the Hook movie and I really enjoyed that movie

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as a kid.

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And I'm surprised this detail glossed over me.

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But anyway, Peter, part of the reason that he dislikes mothers so much, it's not that

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he doesn't know anything about mothers, it's that he actively dislikes mothers because

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he only remembers their bad points and none of their good points because he went to his

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mother and he flew to his window is the idea.

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And when he went there, the window was barred and there was another little boy who had been

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replaced or who was his replacement.

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And that's really interesting.

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So that kind of makes me wonder when Peter said that he heard his parents talking about

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what he would be when he grew up and he ran away on the day he was born, did he really

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run away on the day he was born because he heard his parents talking about that or is

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that the story that he tells everyone else and that he tells himself to make himself

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feel better about the fact that he ran away and has no parents and has no home and just

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lives in the Neverland with the Lost Boys.

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And I think that's interesting to think about from a story perspective and to analyze that

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thought but I also just want to sit on this thought for a little bit that Peter is the

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one lost boy.

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He's like unique among the Lost Boys for many reasons but one such reason is that he went

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home and he found that he wasn't wanted or welcomed anymore.

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At least he believes this is true, the narrator says.

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So we don't know if it's actually the truth or not.

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It's just what the narrator says that Peter thinks is true.

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And anyway, in either way whether he actually did it or he pretended it and he believes

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it in that way or because of that reason Peter is the one lost boy and he's the most lost

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of the Lost Boys because he, the other Lost Boys have hope that they'll go home and they'll

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be accepted by their parents and if they're not accepted by their parents the darlings

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will adopt them which let's be honest they probably will because it's that kind of funny

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world.

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And yet despite the fact that it's a funny world there's still room for tragedy and there's

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still room for sadness and there's the sadness and the tragedy of Peter that he is so hurt

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and he was so hurt.

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Oh, oh wow.

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He was so hurt that he'll never forget that, he'll never get over it and he'll never come

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back.

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He'll always be in the Neverland.

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And I just realized right now that when Hook stabbed him in chapter eight or so and well

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when he bit him it said and then he felt betrayed it said that a boy never forgets his first

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betrayal basically and that all he does is trust that she'll treat him fairly and I wonder

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and that the difference between Peter and other boys is that he always forgot and he

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was always shocked when Hook would betray him let's say which you could assume has happened

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many times and or treated him unfairly I should say not betrayed treated unfairly and I wonder

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if I brought it betrayal now I'm kind of contrasting it with unfair treatment I wonder if Peter

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thought that was unfair of his mother to replace him to bar the window and despite the fact

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the book says that he always remembers or rather always forgets his you know that first

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betrayal of trust or that first unfairness that's what it's the first unfairness that

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Peter never really did forget that unfairness of his mother whether it was the first or

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not if he forgot all the others it's basically the first to him and he remembers and holds

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deep in his heart the fact that she replaced him and he finds that to be unfair because

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a mother's love as Wendy tells her story it should spring eternally and a mother's love

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should be something that a child can always count on to be there and to cause her to be

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there waiting for him and apparently she wasn't or that's what he knows that's what he thinks

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and that's really sad that's really cold and I'm fighting a cold I'm not about to cry here

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not but not that I would I wouldn't hide it if I was trying to cry that's the thing or

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if I was about to cry but um it is emotional it is poignant and it is stinging and it is

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interesting that Barry talks about this and with all the kind of adult things that I've

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talked about here all the danger all the you know potential death and scalping and you

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know being killed by pirates or being drowned to death by mermaids or by just the cold sea

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you would think that this emotional thing wouldn't be as hard-hitting as it is but it

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is and it's it's every it's every bit of danger as everything else in the story and it's every

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bit true and it's a little shocking and sad that this is a reality or this is a possible

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reality that no mother's love won't last that a mother's love isn't going to be enough a

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mother's love will not be there for you forever and Barry makes some interesting comments

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that the children basically abuse a mother's love which I can see as being true and they

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will selfishly regard her and they'll selfishly calculate how far they can push things before

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they've gone too far and they always feel they can go a little bit more because again

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that's the power of mother's love but Peter's seen the failing in that which is a true thing

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I think to some extent and it's definitely a warning to children that they shouldn't

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take their mother's love for granted they shouldn't push her too far and whether or

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not a mother's love truly is eternal and whether or not she can always forgive you for everything

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you do that's up for debate but it's not something you should test I think and that's kind of

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the takeaway I get from this chapter anyway what did you think about it what do you think

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about my my ponderings on mother's love do you think Peter's remembering this first unfairness

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like I do or do you think are you taking things a totally different way I'd be curious to

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hear and I didn't even talk about the fact that the lost boys all want to go home with

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the darling children and that they're convinced by Peter's story his revelation is shocking

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revelation that he does remember his mother and he doesn't remember his window and that

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he you know was barred from it that that impels the children to go there it's rather interesting

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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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it chapter by chapter and I'm waiting for that fortress fiction episode to come where

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I can talk about the book as a whole and if people want to be involved with that I'm not

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going to give dates here but if you're listening along as the show is going as I'm producing

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these then go ahead and drop comments you're always welcome to drop comments but if you

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drop comments before the fortress fiction episode comes out which would be I'll conclude

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with the last chapter which I think is 18 and then all the next episode or the next

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I don't know how I'll do the next Friday coming up I'll do the book I'm not sure we'll see

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we'll see what I do but anyway I encourage you to leave comments and I'll include them

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in the fortress fiction episode where I talk about the book as a whole if you do it before

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there the the stories would be posted there and I just had two short stories oh I finished

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two short stories a while ago and I was working on a third short story I messed up the due

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date and I now have a story that's 90% finished that I can't use for this particular short

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story submission I was writing it though to be lead material for my lead magnet for my

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universe that I'm writing that features magical bugs battling monsters and there are special

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there are common grow bugs and there are special grow bugs who have interesting stories where

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they partner with humans and do various things and this is a story about one of those in

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the old west actually so that's kind of an interesting story it's pretty much family

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friendly family friendly western with real danger and real stakes and anyway I'll probably

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be publishing my short stories soonish and then that they're very short stories the it's

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a superhero and a fantasy also in other universes I'm interested in writing in and then this

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grow bug western I'll probably publish as my lead magnet and get my email my email list

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set up for people who are interested in the grow bug books specifically which again it's

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about magical bugs battling monsters and I think it's a lot of fun I think it's very

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cool I like it's its own little world that exists in our world so I think that's a lot

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of fun and anyway I will update you with that as soon as I have the mailing list ready as

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soon as I have the short story out and as soon as I get the the actual book published

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which is not a western it's all in the grow bug world which is again in our world it's

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out in the wilderness it's you know out there somewhere there are grow bugs and they're

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doing things and they're helping kids as they can so anyway until next time folks take care

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