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=//Who is Peter Pan?//=

The Peter Pan relation to Greek mythology: Peter Pan’s last name is from the Greek God Pan. Pan is the son of the God Hermes who is a considered a very tricky God. Pan is a creature of the wilderness and is explained as a very wild and energy filled individual. In the writings of Servius, the sixth ancient kind of Rome, there is a lengthy description of Pan. He has horns to resemble the horns of the sun and moon. He wears a fawn skin to resemble the stars in the sky. Pan’s lower limbs are hairy because of the trees and wild beasts he lives among. He has feet of a goat relating to the stability of the earth. Pan also has a pan-pipe, which is a musical instrument he created. He is the god of all nature. This all relates to Peter Pan the character because he lives in nature and is very wild and energetic. He also does use the pan-pipe.

History of Peter Pan: Peter Pan first appeared in a section of a novel written in 1902 by J.M. Barrie called //The Little White Bird.// The most well known story involving Peter Pan was on December 27 in 1904. It was a play called //Peter Pan// or //The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up.// The play turned into the novel of //Peter Pan// in 1911, which was originally called //Peter and Wendy// and then //Peter Pan and Wendy// and then simply //Peter Pan.// Peter Pan has been used in other stories since its original beginning. It was used in 1953 in the famous Walt Disney version of //Peter Pan.// There was a stage musical of Peter Pan in 1954 by Jerome Robbins was filmed for television. There was a movie in 1991 called //Hook.// Also, //Peter Pan// was a movie in 2003 and there was a sequel of //Peter Pan// written in 2006 called //Peter Pan in Scarlet// //.//

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=**What is Peter Pan Syndrome?**=

Peter Pan Syndrome is the supposed psychological phenomenon of immaturity among some men, who like a fictional character, remain childish and fail to assume appropriate adult social roles and responsibilities. It is not recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as being a specific mental disorder. [|What is Peter Pan Syndrome?]

=**Peter Pan Illustrations:**=



=Comic Life=

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=//Web Pages/Articles//=

[|Male Socialization: The Peter Pan Syndrome]
 * "The little boy who does not want to grow up." Men deal with problems in their relationships with their parents and women because of society's idea of how they should behave. Emotions are often either escalated, or they lose touch with them, and they tend to be emotionally immature.

[|How to "Cure" the Peter Pan Syndrome]
 * This article explains steps on how to cure the Peter Pan Syndrome if your child has it.

[|Peter Pan Syndrome & Catcher in the Rye]
 * This article attacks people who are stuck in the Peter Pan Syndrome and even though people die from these childish acts, they still don't stop. This article also shows how Holden Caulfield in __The Catcher in the Rye__ is a Peter Pan in the story.

[|Example of Peter Pan Syndrome]
 * College students are sometimes afraid of responsibility. This article tells a story about a college student who questions his professor about what is wrong with him, because there are situations in his life that he does not understand. They come to the conclusion that he is afraid to grow up; he is an example of someone who has Peter Pan syndrome.

=Blog Posts=

[|Michael Jackson, Peter Pan Syndrome and Living Forever]
 * Robert Levin is a huge fan of Michael Jackson and feels like he relates to him because they both long for a childhood that they never had. They both had a damaged childhood because Michael's dad would beat him and Levin had Tourettes. For this, he was ridiculed of by his peers and was forced to grow up fast.

[|Katie Sokoler Blogs About Peter Pan Syndrome]
 * Katie is an artist and lives in New York City. She constantly sees people working hard and commuting, and she wants them to stop and look at her drawings all over the city. She wants to keep her kid alive by spreading her art through out the community. She then blogs about it.

=Videos=

[|Peter Pan Syndrome Song]

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=Corresponding Criticism=

[|Mind Of Man: Cut Peter Pan Some Slack]
 * This article talks about how maybe the men don't have Peter Pan Syndrome, and instead the women have Wendy Syndrome.