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﻿Walt Disney's Peter Pan The movie begins with George and Mary Darling preparing to attend a party. They are disrupted by their sons, John and Michael Darling, acting out a story told by their older sister, Wendy, about Peter Pan and the pirates. Mr. Darling becomes angry and fed up with these stories, and he tells Wendy that she is too told to be living in the nursery, and it's time for her to have a room to herself. This symbolizes that it is time for Wendy to grow up. That night, Peter Pan visits the nursery and teaches the Darling children to fly with the help of Tinker Bell and her pixie dust. They fly to Never Land where a ship of pirates is anchored off the coast. The ship is commanded by Captain Hook, who wants revenge on Peter Pan for cutting off his left hand. The Darling children and Peter Pan meet up with the Lost Boys on the island, six little boys dressed in animal costumes who look to Peter as their leader.

In the movie, Tinker Bell is tricked into revealing the location of Peter Pan's lair to Captain Hook, because of her jealousy of Wendy. Captain Hook's plan to kill Peter is foiled when Tinker Bell makes him promise not to "lay a hand or a hook" on Peter. Tinker Bell is then locked in a lantern as a makeshift jail cell. Meanwhile, Wendy and her brothers become homesick and plan to return home. They invite Peter Pan and the Lost Boys to go with them and be adopted by the Darlings. Peter Pan refuses because he doesn't want to grow up, and he assumes that they will all return back shortly. The Darling children and the Lost Boys are captured by Hook and his pirates, and they leave a time bomb to kill Peter Pan. Tinker Bell learns of this plan to kill Peter and she escapes her jail cell in time to snatch the bomb from him as it explodes.

Peter Pan and Tinker Bell confront the pirates on the ship and save the children before they are forced to walk the plank. The children fight off the pirates while Peter Pan battles Captain Hook. Hook and his crew flee after he is humiliated by Peter, with the crocodile following after them. With Tinker Bell's pixie dust, Peter Pan flies the ship back to London so Wendy, Michael and John can return home. The Lost Boys decide to stay with Peter in Never Land instead of being adopted.

The Darling parents come home from the party to find Wendy asleep by an open window, and their sons asleep in their beds. The parents are unaware that their children had ever left. Wendy wakes up and excitedly tells her parents about their adventures in Never Land. Mr. and Mrs. Darling look out the nursery window to find a pirate ship sailing in the clouds, and Mr. Darling recognizes it from his own childhood as it disappears.

__**Themes -**__
 * The primary theme of this story is the conflict between the innocence of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. Clearly Peter struggles with this and decides not to make the transition into adulthood.
 * There is a slight romantic theme in the book as well. Wendy gives Peter a "kiss" showing her flirtatious side. Peter also struggles with his conflicting feelings for Wendy, Tiger Lily and Tinker Bell. Only the book contains these themes and the Disney movie eliminates and romantic themes.
 * Family is also a reoccurring theme in this story, dealing especially with mothers. Peters tells Wendy that she will see a mermaid so she will come to Never Land, but Peter really just wants her to come so he and the Lost Boys will have a mother. Peter is unwilling to play a father role, but agrees to pretend to be the father because he does not want real responsibility.

__**Characters -**__


 * **Peter Pan** is as arrogant, courageous, and forgetful as he is in the book. He is the boy that never grows up.
 * **Tinker Bell** is Peter Pan's closest friend. She becomes jealous of Wendy in both the book and movie. H[[image:peter_pan-300x214.jpg align="right"]]er jealousy almost causes Wendy to be stoned to death, and tell Captain Hook where Pan's hideout is, thinking he will capture Wendy.
 * **Wendy Darling** is twelve years old turning thirteen. She is very motherly, naive, and mature for her age.
 * **John Darling** is eight years old, and the oldest Darling brother. He is tall and slim and wears glasses. He becomes the leader of the Lost Boys for the fight against the pirates.
 * **Michael Darling** is the youngest of the Darling children. He is clumsy yet playful, and carries a teddy bearwith him throughout the film.
 * **Captain Hook** is the antagonist of the film. Although he is a villain, Hook becomes very childish in his fear of the crocodile. He is dependent on Smee, his personal assistant.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Lost Boys **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> are boys that have become lost and taken to Never Land by Peter. The Lost Boys consider Peter their leader and they follow what he says.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Peter makes night-time calls on Kensington, London, listening in on Mrs. Mary Darling's bedtime stories by the open window. One night Peter is spotted and, while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. On returning to claim it, Peter wakes Mary's daughter, Wendy Darling. Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, and Peter learns that she knows lots of bedtime stories. He invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang, the Lost, children who were lost in Kensington Gardens. Wendy agrees, and her brothers John and Michael go along.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Peter welcomes Wendy to his underground home, and she immediately assumes the role of mother figure. Peter takes the Darlings on several adventures, the first truly dangerous one occurring at Mermaids' Lagoon. At Mermaids' Lagoon, Peter and the Lost Boys save the princess Tiger Lily and become involved in a battle with the pirates, including the evil //Captain Hook//. Peter is w ounded when Hook claws him. He believes he will die, stranded on a rock when the tide is rising, but he views death as "an awfully big adventure". Luckily, a bird allows him to use her nest as a boat, and Peter sails home. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> One day while telling stories to the Lost Boys and her brothers, John and Michael, Wendy recalls about her parents and then decides to take them back and return to England. Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to Peter, Wendy and the boys are captured by Captain Hook, who also tries to poison Peter's medicine while the boy is asleep. When Peter awakes, he learns from the fairy Tinker Bell that Wendy has been kidnapped – in an effort to please Wendy, he goes to drink his medicine. Tink does not have time to warn him of the poison, and instead drinks it herself, causing her near death. Peter invokes the sympathy of children who might be dreaming of him, and Tinker Bell is saved. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Peter heads to the ship. On the way, he encounters the ticking crocodile; Peter decides to copy the tick, so any animals will recognise it and leave him unharmed. He does not realise that he is still ticking as he boards the ship, where Hook cowers, mistaking him for the crocodile. While the pirates are searching for the croc, Peter sneaks into the cabin to steal the keys and frees the Lost Boys. When he finally reveals himself, he and Hook fall to the climactic battle, which Peter easily wins. He kicks Hook into the jaws of the waiting crocodile, and Hook dies with the satisfaction that Peter had kicked him off the ship, which Hook considers "bad form". Then Peter takes control of the ship, and sails the seas back to London. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In the end, Wendy decides that her place is at home, much to the joy of her heartsick mother. Wendy then brings all the boys but Peter back to London. Before Wendy and her brothers arrive at their house, Peter flies ahead, to try and bar the window so Wendy will think her mother has forgotten her. But when he learns of Mrs Darling's distress, he bitterly leaves the window open and flies away. Peter returns briefly, and he meets Mrs. Darling, who has agreed to adopt the Lost Boys. She offers to adopt Peter as well, but Peter refuses, afraid they will "catch him and make him a man". It is hinted that Mary Darling knew Peter when she was a girl, because she is left slightly changed when Peter leaves. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">Differences

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The values that are in both the novel and movie are the pricelessness of youth and the important of family.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">In the book, Hook lost his right hand, however in the movie he lost his left hand
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There is not as much violence in the film so that it would be more suitable for a younger audience.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Barrie's book was intended for adults. In the beginning of the novel, Mr. & Mrs. Darling discussed the costs of having children which was not put in the Disney movie.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Captain Hook and Peter Pan are more schematic in the novel.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Darling children know about Peter Pan before he came to their window in the book, while the children meet Peter Pan for the first time when he comes to the nursery looking for his shadow.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The ending was changed in the Disney movie in order to appeal to the young viewers. In the book, Wendy's daughter Jane goes to Never Land with Peter once Wendy is too old, then Jane's daughter Margaret goes with Peter and the cycle continues on.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Lost boys are not adopted in the end of the film, like they are in the book. Disney made the lost boys return to Never Land with Peter and remain children.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Lost Boys appear as more of a group in the movie than in the novel. In the novel each boy has lines and more of a personality.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Disney tried to lighten the story by having the Darling children return home before the parents came home, so the parents never worried about the children missing. In the book, the parents are very upset until the children come home.

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 116%; text-align: left;">What is gained?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When Disney turned this novel into a movie, they opened the story to more children. It is obviously easier for children to watch a movie then to read a novel.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By adding music, the movie also becomes more entertaining for children as they can sing along with the movie.
 * T<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">he animation is also something that is fun to watch and keeps the attention of the child.

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 116%; text-align: left;">What is lost?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Like all fairy tales that have gotten the Disney treatment, the movie adaptation has been simplified to the frame of the story. All of the actions and adventures from the book are included in the movie, although the idea of Never Land becoming real because of the childrens dreams is ignore.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sometimes when novels are turned into movies, major themes and important aspects that made the novel good are lost in transition.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By reading books, it allows you to use your imagination and by turning the book into a movie people tend to lose their imagination.



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