He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM ( – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. (Mostly the word a** coming from Tinker Bell occasionally). Overall, it was a beautifully written story about childhood so full of personality that it truly captured my imagination.Ĭontent Rating: Mild, for some swearing. She mostly swore which I found kind of funny. Tinker Bell’s character was quite saucy, naughty and highly entertaining. It’s bittersweet to look at childhood the way it really is because not all of it is pretty. As adults, we tend to forget all the bad things we’ve grown out of and glorify all the good things we miss. What struck me the most was how brutally honest this book was about childhood. Peter has nightmares that trouble him a lot mostly because they feel real to him. It’s a harsh truth of childhood that they really can’t tell the difference between reality and imagination.
I also found it interesting that most of their make-believe games in Neverland were pretending to do adult things in an innocent and unexperienced way. Another thing I found kind of shocking was the casual way in which they talked about killing on Neverland like it was some sort of game. The fact that Wendy stays away so long is because all children are completely confident that they can do whatever they want and they will still be loved. In a way they can’t leave the bad qualities behind without growing up and losing the good ones, too. And I had to smile at the few unexpected Shakespeare references.Ī theme that kept popping up was that children are carefree, innocent, and happy yet heartless. Although the plot is technically the same, the book had a slightly darker tone than the Disney version. Disney usually chops those stories up until you can barely recognize them. I was a little surprised at how similar the plot was to the Disney version. The whole story is this beautiful blend of imagination and reality. If she was too fond of her rubbishy children she couldn’t help it. And the voice was just bursting with personality.
It’s visual, easy to imagine and I could tell that it was a play first before this novelization came out.
It was fascinating with it’s deep thoughts one minute, biting sarcasm the next and some very amusing honesty. Right away I fell in love with the writing. Barrie's famous play, is filled with unforgettable characters: Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up the fairy, Tinker Bell the evil pirate, Captain Hook and the three children-Wendy, John, and Michael-who fly off with Peter Pan to Neverland, where they meet Indians and pirates and a crocodile that ticks.
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