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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

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at MJMunoz.com Join me for another chapter by chapter discussion of Peter Pan episode,

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or rather chapter 16. In this chapter we learn that Jan Berry understands children very well.

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What do I mean by that? I talked about this a bit in my short, but I ran out of time,

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so I'm going to expand upon it here right away. Peter, instead of sailing everybody

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back to the island, he keeps them on the ship, and instead of having Tinkerbell fly the darling

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children back home, and the lost boys, he and Tinkerbell leave them all behind, and

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I guess they're still on the ship, I don't know, and he ends up going to their house,

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and he tries to lock the door and stop them from being able to go back home. He wants

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them to see that the window is locked, like his was locked, and go back to Neverland,

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like he went back to Neverland, and for Wendy to be his mother always, and you know, Michael

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and John will be there, and they'll be part of the lost boys, and that'll be fine for

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him. He doesn't want to lose that. He's so desperate to hold onto that. The reason that's

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so interesting, and the reason that works so well, is because, well, we understand that

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he's a child, and he's flawed, and he's failing in this test, so to speak, but we also get

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to see the pain and the heartache that Mrs. Darling feels, and that Mr. Darling feels.

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Mr. Darling is now, or Darling is now sleeping in a kennel, and being in a kennel most of

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the time, he even goes to work in a kennel, and gets invited to dinner parties in a kennel,

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but he really is suffering for it, which I believe because he's kind of a silly guy.

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Mrs. Darling, however, her hope that her children will return is eternal, and even George says

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that the window is too cold, or it's too cold, so she should close the window, and she chides

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him and says, no, I will not close the window, and he apologizes to her, realizing what a

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faux pas he made, and realizing that she won't close the window because she doesn't want

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to let go of her children, and she doesn't want them to think that she's not there waiting

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for them, because she is there waiting for them, because she loves them so dearly.

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Barry very much chides the children for their lack of concern for their mother.

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I don't think he calls them little beasts in this chapter, but he's pretty close to

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it.

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He says they're heartless, and that they just go to her assuming that everything will be

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fine, and the level of her heartbrokenness is such that when they are there, because

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their darling children do come home that night, and they lay in their beds, and she goes to

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look upon them, to look upon the empty beds, she sees them there, but she doesn't realize

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it's really them, because she's been having visions of them being there in their beds,

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because that's how much she wants them to return.

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That's how much she loves her children, how much she's hoping that they'll return, and

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knows they'll return, to the point where she's, I believe, sitting down, and they call to

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her in turn, and she still doesn't believe it's them, because she's experienced that

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too.

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So, in a very interesting way, Barry spends this chapter talking about how much he likes

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her, and how he prefers Mrs. Darling to all the other characters in the story, and how

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he wants to save her from the pain that her children are causing her, and to relieve her

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from the pain that they're causing her.

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And it's interesting, because he really expresses this concern for her, almost to the exclusion

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of her children.

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But, of course, if you're going to care greatly for a mother, you also have to care for her

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children, because it doesn't work that way, but he is just the narrator, supposedly.

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So, I don't know, it's a really interesting way things are handled.

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It would be anticlimactic, and it would be a wasted chapter if it didn't hit on all these

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emotional notes, and kind of pay off things that had been set up earlier.

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And I don't know, it adds to the tragedy of Peter, because he ends up leaving.

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He ends up being defeated by...

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See, he can defeat Captain Hook, but he can't defeat a sad mom, and he ends up, I guess,

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hanging outside the window or something, when the Darling children are back, and he sees

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that he's on the outside looking in, and he's never going to be able to have that.

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And that's a good ending for Mrs. Darling, and for Mr. Darling, and for the children,

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but it's not quite a good ending for Peter yet.

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Except, well, if he were to grow up, this would be a big part of his growing up, but

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he's the boy who refuses to grow up, so this isn't going to be the end for him.

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But it is a really interesting examination of children, and this book has become a classic,

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this story has become a classic, it's been retold many times, and people still like it,

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and I think it's children who like it, not adults looking at it.

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Not that adults can't like it, I do very much enjoy this story.

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But I almost wonder if maybe people think too little of children as far as their capacity

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to accept criticism or to be attacked by the media they enjoy, because this book spends

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a lot of time having fun and being absurd, but it also spends time here very much attacking

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these children and not demonizing them, but definitely not angelizing them, and it makes

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it clear that a woman, a mother is deluded by her love for her children to the point

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where she will accept so much from them, and literally take things that she shouldn't have

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to take from them because of her love for them, and that she'll just continue to indulge

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them.

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And I don't know if it's that indulgence that children find enjoyable, the fact that their

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imaginations are being indulged and that they're being reassured that their mothers will always

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love them and care for them in this type of way, in this very profound way, or is it the

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magic and the spectacle that keeps children interested in this story?

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I don't quite know, and I'm curious to know what you say about it.

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So leave me a comment here.

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I'm even open to, at some point, opening it up and having people suggest books they'd

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like me to read chapter by chapter.

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I already have my list of what's to read next.

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I don't remember what's to read next because I've been very much in Peter Pan mode and

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focused on this.

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But yeah, I'd be curious to see what other people have to say about this and what other

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books people would like to see me talk about and join in the conversation in at least comments,

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going chapter by chapter, telling me what you think about things before I talk about

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them.

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That'd be great.

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So until next time, folks, take care, be well, and keep reading.

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