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I'm talking about Captain Hook, well, other things than Captain Hook in Peter Pan

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Chapter 14. This is my quick review of it and here we go. So I find it really

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interesting that the name of Hook's ship is given in the book as Jolly Roger. I'm

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familiar with Jolly Roger as being the flag of the pirates with the skull and

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crossbones, the black flag. So I looked into that a little bit to find out a

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little bit about it and I'll get back to that in a minute. I've also been intrigued

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with Hook's history and who he is. I kind of assumed that maybe he was Jim

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Hawkins from Treasure Island. However, because the book talks about him

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interacting with Barbecue, who is Long John Silver from Treasure Island, but it

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also talks about him interacting with Blackbeard. And this book was published

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in 1904. I don't know when the book is supposed to take place. It might be

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before 1904, but still it talks about these men as if they're real or at least

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they're real for Hook. And I find that to be pretty interesting. So I've kind of

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speculated about who Hook is. Again, I thought he was Jim Hawkins. And I think

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maybe now he's not Jim Hawkins because he seems like he's more of a a little

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bit more of a modern figure, a little bit more of a contemporary figure for

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who. He seems like he's a little bit more of a contemporary figure and I

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think that that's probably accurate. So I looked up Blackbeard the pirate as well

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to kind of talk about that. And then I want to talk about... actually I'm gonna go

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back to that real quick. So Jolly Roger, that name specifically is the the name

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of the skull and crossbones. It's from the 19th century. It seems to be linked

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to Barbary Pirates and that's definitely... well it looks like it's also from the

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18th century maybe. Hmm. Anyway, it's also called the Death's Head flag but yeah

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the Jolly Roger is supposed to be that flag with the skull and crossbones on it.

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But Hook calls his ship that and I'm not 100% sure why. I tried to look it up and

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I couldn't really find a good... I couldn't really find a good answer as to

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why. So it just kind of leads us to speculate what was going on with that.

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Apparently it comes from the French Jolirouge which means pretty red.

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I don't think it means a beautiful red. I think it means like very red but I don't

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know for sure. And apparently it was because... well the the online speculation

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I saw was because either pirate ships were red back at the time or because

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they would become... when pirates would board your ship it would become pretty

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red with all the blood that they would shed. So I'm not exactly sure if that's

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the case or not but I did find it very interesting that Jolly Roger is Captain

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Hook's ship's name and I just thought that was kind of compelling. Hook seems

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to be very much the iconic image of a pirate and I almost wondered if it was

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possible that Jolly Roger came from him but no it's it's from before so that's

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good to know. And then Hook's mysterious past seems to hint that he's a real

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world person but then again it talks about him having dealt with Blackbeard

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the pirate who kids would have heard of but he lived in the 18th century so 1717

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I'm seeing. Let me just read a little bit about Blackbeard the pirate because you

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know where does it put Hook in context? It says by the fall of 1717 Blackbeard was

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operating off Delaware and Chesapeake Bays in conjunction with two other

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pirates Benjamin Hornigold and Stead Bonnet or Stead Bonnet I don't know. In

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1718 Blackbeard sailed the Queen Anne's Revenge to the Bay of Honduras on

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November 22nd 1718 Blackbeard was killed in a battle off Ocracoke Island, North

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Carolina by a British naval expedition personally funded by Virginia Governor

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Alexander Spottswood. These dates indicate that Blackbeard was

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active as a pirate from at least 1717 until his death in 1718. Wow one year and

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he has that much of a reputation apparently his name was originally

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Edward Teach and I don't know where the name Blackbeard came from so that's

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really interesting I had no idea this guy had such a short-lived time as a

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pirate I would have thought it would have been I thought it would have been

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longer I thought it would have been older too to hear that he was operating well 17

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let's see yeah those dates 1776 is when the America was created so he was

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harassing the the British colonies it looks like which is kind of interesting

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but the book you know is written and published in 1904 could have been from

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somewhere near that time let's say the book supposedly took place at in 1900

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that's still a long ways away and it's surprising that Blackbeard would have

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been that old but then again you know how old is Peter Pan how old is Captain

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Hook how long have they been there it's kind of unknown and I find that to be

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pretty interesting the connections to the the public school that hook went to

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them and like what his true identity is it's kind of strange and I don't know I

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don't know what to do with that other than think that he's all the stuff about

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his true identity it's just kind of mystique that buried through in there

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and that's about it that's about it it's interesting how how cruel he is when the

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boys refused to to join with him he's gonna make them walk the plank and he

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has Smee tie Wendy to the mast to watch all her children die and he was he was

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about to turn her face towards the plank so that she could watch them walk the

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plank she watched all her children die when the tick talking of the croc

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scared him off and then he went and hit it and ran away that's how the chapter

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ends and then we learned that it's actually not the crocodile it's

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somebody else mmm but it's interesting because she speaks on behalf of all

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their mothers and she says that she hopes that her sons or that these boys

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would die like English gentlemen and the defiance and the pride of a mother

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that's on display through Wendy is really interesting and kind of it's a

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really fun thing and it's it goes back to something I've talked about earlier

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that there's this interesting spectrum of humanity shown there's these different

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sides of men and women of the masculine and feminine of mothers and sons that

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are shown in this book and it's really interesting because you know you would

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think that oh no she's you know a mother she's a girl should be scared of this

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but instead she does you know command them to to die like English gentlemen

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which means like without whimpering without fear just go silently and die

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because it's better to die with your pride than it is to die whimpering or

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even to serve somebody and be bad be you know a dishonorable person and that's

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like a really powerful statement and you know this book's silly and it's absurd

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but then it has these things in it that are really interesting and really true

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and really touch on things that are true in life and from life I find that

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fascinating anyway that's it check out the backlog of the rest of the chapter

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by chapter discussions I've had of Peter Pan so far we are rapidly nearing the

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end of this book and I'm very excited to talk about it as a whole and I encourage

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you to check out my website MJ Munoz where you can find all my other book

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talks all my other discussions that I've been doing of this and other books as

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well as the Fortress Fiction podcast where I have this is a kind of a new

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thing where I'm talking about a book chapter by chapter previously I was

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talking about a book as a whole and I've done ten or eleven other books before

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Peter Pan and Peter Pan struck me as something that deserved to be talked

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about in a bigger way and it's something I'd like to do in the future so go ahead

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and I have some room to breathe as well so I check that out I would appreciate

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it and look out for me to announce my own books about magical bugs bad monsters

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