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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
"It is sad to have to say that the power to fly gradually left them...Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed."
I’m just not a fan of Peter Pan. Read this because it is part of the curriculum I am currently teaching. I am curious how my students will feel about it.
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Classics aren't really my thing but I found Peter Pan to be charming and whimsical, once of course you get past the brutal first chapter.
3.5
This book is a tragedy actually.
The ending was a nightmare, everyone forgetting everything because they grew up (or didn’t in Peter Pan’s case) forgetting how to fly, doubting whether they’d ever been to Neverland.
What happened to growing up with the whimsy still inside of you?
I did kind of appreciate how Peter came to the Darling descendants to take them to Neverland at the end but it was still so terribly sad.
I was such a big fan of the movie growing up but I always disliked everything ending and still do.
The rest of the book was literally just Hook fighting his demons aka pondering over good form and bad form.
This book is a tragedy actually.
The ending was a nightmare, everyone forgetting everything because they grew up (or didn’t in Peter Pan’s case) forgetting how to fly, doubting whether they’d ever been to Neverland.
What happened to growing up with the whimsy still inside of you?
I did kind of appreciate how Peter came to the Darling descendants to take them to Neverland at the end but it was still so terribly sad.
I was such a big fan of the movie growing up but I always disliked everything ending and still do.
The rest of the book was literally just Hook fighting his demons aka pondering over good form and bad form.
Not a fan. I had to make up my own backstory for Peter for this to make sense to me. And I still found it darker (in an original-version-fairy-tales kind of way) than expected and distasteful. Personally distasteful, not in a cultural norm, "think of the children!!" sense. Even so, think of the children!! The story was pretty fucked up and seems like a fuckin' weird thing to relate to your kids. I found it much more interesting as a studiable piece of literature than as a narrative.
The private explanation for Peter that I kept in my head pretty much the whole time was this:
Peter is that rare changeling that was switched back when the real baby's mother succeeded in getting her own child back by making soup in an eggshell or whatever. This allows me to explain why Peter is such a capricious, frivolous, vain dickhead with zero regard for human life. Neverland = Fairyland. Lost Boys = changeling victims.
Now I know why so many adaptations make Peter the bad guy.
Cuz he's a fuckin' douche kidnapper.
TEACH YOUR KIDS NOT TO RUN OFF WITH STRANGERS EVEN IF THEY HAVE ALL THEIR FIRST TEETH!!
The private explanation for Peter that I kept in my head pretty much the whole time was this:
Peter is that rare changeling that was switched back when the real baby's mother succeeded in getting her own child back by making soup in an eggshell or whatever. This allows me to explain why Peter is such a capricious, frivolous, vain dickhead with zero regard for human life. Neverland = Fairyland. Lost Boys = changeling victims.
Now I know why so many adaptations make Peter the bad guy.
Cuz he's a fuckin' douche kidnapper.
TEACH YOUR KIDS NOT TO RUN OFF WITH STRANGERS EVEN IF THEY HAVE ALL THEIR FIRST TEETH!!
I really loved the writing and the story, but Peter Pan himself was a little creepy.
adventurous
funny
fast-paced