Finding Neverland

Marianna 2022-04-21 09:02:40

Some definitions of growing up. To grow up is to become mature, to know how to love and be loved, and to understand responsibility and burden. When you grow up, you learn to be jealous, suspicious and ridiculed, and you don't have to feel in a hurry in the face of all kinds of people and things, and you are more and more aware of human nature and the world.

In Peter's world, he will never have unhappy things, so as long as he uses the magic of the elf, he can do things that everyone in the world, even children, would think violates the laws of nature---flying, As long as you think about happy things, you can fly. How dreamy, how luxurious. In contrast, Captain Hook, who has a hook on his arm, said he had nothing to be happy about after learning the secret of "how to fly" despite his blood-red eyes that could frighten the little ones. He's a sad grown-up who can never fly.

Wendy asked Peter if he knew what love was. Peter gave her a negative answer. At that moment, the little girl had a hunch that could make her back go cold. That hunch was that if she didn't grow up and stay in her childhood forever, she would miss more than a little bit. However, she wanted to become an adult who could love or hate. Even at the cost of losing something more. With a proud look on Peter's face, he said he didn't have a mother, and that he was crying because he couldn't control his shadow after defeating the pirate who could fly. How innocent. He doesn't have a mother, he doesn't know what jealousy is, he doesn't understand all the cruel, real and complex emotions, all he has is the joy of being a child. So he won't grow up, he refuses to grow up.

Every child will have the idea of ​​"refusing to grow up" before they grow up. But at the same time, he will silently look forward to what he will look like when he grows up in ten or twenty years. Then, they slowly grew into real adults with their innocence and curiosity about growing up. At this time, as adults who seem to be invulnerable, they will look at the devastated world they live in with their hearts full of holes, and then think of their childhood.

So, there is the end of the story. Peter, who was still happy, watched the children who walked with him in the past experience happiness that he could never get. The tears in his eyes were reluctance to part, and he was determined to understand the cost of staying in childhood. He flew away, and he still refused to grow up. While he may be alone for a while, there will always be children who accidentally fall out of the stroller guarded by an inattentive nanny and are sent to Neverland. Peter's story takes place at the age of thirteen or fourteen, who is about to leave his childhood. Peter, who is always a child, takes the child's unique adventurous spirit and sense of justice to protect Neverland, and the guardians come and leave in batches of children. He is the patron saint of all children. He left the window of Wendy's house with the assurance and faith for all the children who were unwilling to grow up and forced to grow up. Will those children who finally grow up have a feeling that the dream of "don't grow up" has been realized? Peter realizes the most impossible dreams for himself and for all the children.

He never grows up in Neverland.

All the children grow up, except one...

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  • Jakob 2021-12-31 08:03:07

    good-looking. I do belive in fairies! Peter Pan is really extraordinary. Wendy had quite different imagination from the novel she was reading.

  • Jovani 2021-12-31 08:03:07

    Jeremy is simply Peter Pan from a fairy tale book

Peter Pan quotes

  • Wendy: Why do you hate him so?

  • Pirate: Beg for your lives.

    John: Sirs! My brother and I are English gentlemen. English gentlemen do not beg!

    Michael: [Michael gets on his knees] ... Please. Please, don't kill me!

    John: [John gets n his knees too] Please, don't kill me either!