Monday, April 7, 2008

Peter Pan 45-111

Wendy becomes Peter and the lost boys' mother. Tinkerbell hates Wendy out of Wendy, when she first arrives on the island she tells the lost boys that Wendy is a bird and Peter wants them to shoot her. Toodles, who is the most gullible of the lost boys, strikes Wendy with an arrow, however she survives Tinkerbells plot and lives. The lost boys build a house around here until she is well, after which they all move into the lost boys' underground home. Wendy and the lost boys "make believe" to live in an ordinary house, and they go around pretending to do things such as eat dinner, do chores, and have school.

Peters character is a bit questionable at times; while he is often brave and heroic, he is also at times selfish and seems to border on sociopathy. He is constantly forgetting things that he is not immediately concerned with, he may forget events or people once he loses interest. He is entirely unbound by obligations of any sort, he seems to simply do whatever strikes his interest at the moment, nearly everything is a game to him. Sometimes when he and his lost boys are fighting the indians, he becomes bored and switches sides to add interest. At the same time many actions are very courageous and noble; however you always have to question whether or not he merely did it for the fun of it, and if it was only for the fun of it, does that make it wrong?

Hook is obsessed with the idea of "good form". To him this means that to do a thing well, it must not only be done, achieving the end, but it must be done in a certian and correct way. He is constantly agonized by whether or not he has done something in the correct form. He feels that all his sucess, though is the most feared of pirates, is undermined, falsified, if what he has done has not been in good form. If what he did was not in good form, then though he may have achieved a thing through some cheat or mistake, he feels he will soon be found out as a hollow fraud, without good form to back him. Most excruciating to him is that if one has to wonder whether or not one was in good form, this is inherently bad form. Even at his death, when he is knocked from his ship to the crocodile by Peter, he is gratified by the fact that Peter shows bad form by kicking instead of stabbing on his final blow.

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