ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Leonard Bernstein, The Little White Bird, Father Figures
8 Nov 2018
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A different sort of boys" book : male heroes, adventures, rites of passage, boyhood to manhood, pirates, red men, great male villain (captain hook) But, peter pan refuses to grow up : no rite of passage, playing with conventions, cute peter pan idea from 1953 disney film, original play (1904) and novel (1911) much darker & complicated. Peter pan and the pirates: barrie a fan of treasure island, peter pan mentions the sea cook , hook as gentleman pirate , more like upper-class blackbeard than working-class silver, he was blackbeard"s bo"sun, john whispered huskily. He is the only man of whom barbecue was afraid. (86, chapter 4: hook"s internal debate on good form pokes fun at upper-class. More weirdness: mothers: filled with a longing for mothers, despite masculine adventure, boys comfort and love of a mother figure and home, common theme in children"s lit: the orphan tale.
