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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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Thank you for joining me for another chapter by chapter review of Peter Pan talking about

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Chapter 13 this time, Do You Believe in Fairies?

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If this isn't, if this is your first time here and you're not joining me again, then

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I would invite you to check out all the other episodes.

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You can check this one out first because it's going to be good, and then you can go back

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to the other ones and check out the whole thing.

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I've got it all on the playlist.

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I've got it linked on my website.

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You can find all of the CXC chapter by chapter podcast episodes where you can hear me talking

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about Peter Pan for now, and I will add to that as time goes on.

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You can also check out Fortress Fiction where I talk about other books.

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One great, well, not one great book.

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A similar-ish book is Alice in Wonderland.

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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is an absurdist book, and there's a lot of absurd

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elements in Peter Pan as well, which I really appreciate.

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James Barry is very funny, very creative, very imaginative, very thought-provoking in

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the way he writes things, and this chapter is no exception.

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I'm intrigued by the fact that he did this metatextual thing where he asked the readers

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to engage, and I'm a parent of small children, so I've seen Daniel Tiger, and there's the

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scene where, or there's the parts in the episode where they ask for the audience participation,

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and they wait and they pretend as if they've heard something, and I like the way that it's

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framed and this way it's handled, and this is really interesting because it says, some

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clapped, some didn't, and some little beast hissed or something like that, and that's

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cool because if you were reading this to a kid and the kid clapped, they would be validated

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for the choice of clapping.

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If you were reading to a kid who didn't clap and it said some didn't clap but some did,

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they would also be validated in that choice, and they'd be like, ooh, okay, I didn't kill

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Tinkerbell by not clapping.

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Somebody else clapped, and they took care of the problem for me, and I don't have to

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worry about it, or even if that child is disconnected from the mat, or if they don't want to clap

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for whatever reason, they're being transgressive or they're being a little stinker, basically,

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just what transgressive is, then other kids throughout the world, you could imagine that

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they are clapping at this scene at the same time because I would think that children would

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think that if they're having the story read to them, that other children are having the

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story read to them at the same time, and they think, oh, somebody else clapped, so it doesn't.

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And it's a really interesting turn, it's a really interesting way to present it, and

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then even throwing in the detail that some kids hissed at Tinkerbell because they didn't

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like her, which is understandable, she's kind of irascible.

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It adds this element of variety, or not variety, but truthfulness.

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It feels very real because it's positioning and it's showing different perspectives that

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different children would have on Tinkerbell and probably do have on Tinkerbell, and that's

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kind of really interesting the way that's done.

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Some other really interesting elements in here, or interesting dark elements or serious

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elements that you might not expect in a story like this, is yes, while Captain Hook is trying

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to kill Peter and the Lost Boys and Wendy, maybe less so Wendy, or maybe more, he'd kill

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her in a more merciful, more gentlemanly fashion than he'd kill the Lost Boys.

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Gosh, he might poison her instead of stabbing her with his hook, you know?

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It's very much more romantic and nice and gentlemanly.

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Yeah.

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Barry doesn't shy away from being real about things, so Hook apparently is this intense

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man who has concocted a crazy potion or a poison for himself that will kill him if he's

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ever captured, well, before he's ever captured so that he doesn't give his enemy the dignity

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of capturing him, and then being the ones to kill him, he'll take his own life.

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And that's really dark and really serious, and very interesting.

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It's very interesting that it's here.

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We've got a lot going on, like Peter doesn't want to let Wendy win, so he doesn't want

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to take his medicine for her.

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He sleeps on top of the covers, not four feet over the covers, but on top of the covers.

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Shout out if you know what that was a reference to.

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Anyway, sorry.

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But anyway, so he, I like a lot of stories, okay?

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I like a lot of stories, I like a lot of movies, I like a lot of fun stuff.

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So, he's doing things like that to get back at her even though she's not there, and he

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even falls asleep laughing, because he knows that if he laughs instead of crying or being

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sad that it would get at Wendy, it would nettle her, so to speak.

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And what in the world is going on?

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Anyway, you people who are watching the video, you get to enjoy this, and people who are

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on the audio only, you don't know, you don't know what's going on here.

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Anyway, so it's still not fixed.

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We're just having fun here, aren't we?

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And then he wants to make it up to her, so even though she's not there, he goes ahead

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and drinks his medicine, which is just water, and it has this terrible poison in it, but

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before he can drink it, Tinkerbell, who's warned him that Hook was in there, that Hook

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put the poison in there, somehow he was in there and put the poison in there, she grabs,

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she gets in between his mouth and the bottle, and she drinks the deadly draft, and she's

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dying, and then we get this opportunity to save her life by clapping as we're reading

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the book or listening to the book read to us.

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And then after all that's done, and I'm not summarizing the book, I'm not summarizing

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the chapter, but I'm telling you things that happened in it so I can remark on them, so

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I just mentioned to somebody previously today that I don't really like when people recap

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things unless they're doing it in such a way to add value to it and to pique my interest

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in it.

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And hopefully this is piquing your interest as a computer pan, but I'm trying to react

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more to what happened, but I got to tell you a little bit what happened to react to it,

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right?

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So anyway, Peter leaves the tree house with all these weapons on him saying, Hook or me

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this time, he vows, Hook or me.

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So he's going out there to kill that man and to kill that adult, not that he hasn't killed

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men before, and he's going with all these weapons and there's this really cool detail

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about the fact that he has to fly a certain height, like he's got a kind of like skulk

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low on the ground instead of flying high.

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He wants the height advantage, the aerial advantage, he wants the high ground and to

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be able to see what's going on on the island, but the birds will give him away because he's

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... Is this because of the crazy names that he gave him or the name?

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I don't know, something about the names that he gave the birds, but I really think it's

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just because he's like a jerk or maybe the names that he gave them gave him a character

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that's very aggressive.

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Anyway, the birds would let Hook know that Peter was on the way and also him, well, because

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if he were flying up near the birds would see him, they would alert Hook basically.

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So he's skulking like an Indian, like one of the Peking Indian, and he is hoping that

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all the, well, some of the lost boys in Wendy remember to do things that will help him to

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find them and to trace them down.

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Although I would think he would just go to Hook's ship, which the, you know, spoilers,

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the next chapter is called Pirate Ship, so he must just go to their ship, but it mentions

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at the very end of the chapter that he is having a blast.

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He's having so much fun, and I think the idea is that while all of this is true and while

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all of this is dangerous, this is all kind of just a game to Peter and to these kids

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in Neverland, and it's all kind of done in good fun.

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And that's, I don't know, it's kind of nice for the audience because it kind of softens

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the blow, it softens the danger, it like helps them to know that this is going to be okay.

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But reading it as an adult, it just makes Peter sound crazy.

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It makes him sound crazy and dangerous, and I don't know, it's kind of interesting.

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It's almost uncomfortable, but I like it actually.

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So as I said while I was reviewing something else, I really like deadly weirdos.

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Those are my favorite kinds of hero characters are deadly weirdos.

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So anyway, I guess that's what Peter is.

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Until next time, folks, take care.

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I'm reviewing a lot of things.

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I'm also working on writing a lot of things.

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I had a faux pas happen with a short story I was writing, but I went ahead and finished

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it.

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I need to go through and fix it up and get it punched up into proper order to share with

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people and read to them or offer them to read.

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And I have other short stories that I will be publishing soon over on MJWindows.com.

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Before I finish reading Peter Pan, at least one of the short stories will be up for sure,

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I think.

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Anyway, take care, folks.

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