ENGL 216 Lecture 23: Barrie 2
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Wendy is entranced by the idea of fairies, peter"s lack of a mother, and is intrigued. "erruptions of sexual jealousy"- tink and wendy are competing for peter"s affection. Peter does not understand and completely misses this when it happens. Classes in the system in never never land. Captain hook is always trying to be a gentleman by deciding whether or not he was keeping in good form or not. Flying is the perfect metaphor for escape (which the children do from their home/parents) Shift our view to the boys and learn more about them as individual characters (don"t like slightly very much) Tootles is the most chivalrous of the boys. Wendy wants to try and civilize the lost boys (similar to what happened with. The lost boys actually enjoy it a lot because they miss having a mother, whereas huck and tom were fine with it but got used to living without a mother.
