Violence

When it is told Peter cup Hook’s arm and trow it into crocodile’s  mouth, on the condition of a reader, for me  it was the most aggressive strech of the book, because we see henceforth  hook appears mutilated. It this attitude Peter is depicted not just as a trickster figure, but also as Heartless criminal creature.

I think Barrier was much clever to depict Peter as a creature who does not belong to real world. Atfer I kept on reading this odd sensation about Peter disappeared and took in its place a curiosity to   understand Peter’s nature. Another element which appease the violence effects it that it occurs in Neveland, that sound like it is,a land that does not exist.

It would be different if one of the characters who real world were died in this adventure. But we keep the author’s intention progressively, that is, with the story development, we also dive on their adventures world. Yes, adventures world, it is the key  to our change from looking Peter as a murderer to immagine him as liminal character. there is a charming invitation with which we get involve without perceiving. However, if we stop to think about what make us to take part of this story, we would perceive the narrator functions as a sorcerer. We can notice He describes the history as the reader was it him witenessing this adventure. For exemple, we see, on chapter 15,  the narrator gathering us (the reader):

“When last we saw him he was stealing across the island … his legs encountering the water as if quite unaware that they had entered a new element. Thus many animals pass from land to water, but no other human of whom I know.”

Doing this, the narrator convinces us we make part of this adventure as a witness. He also convinces us Peter is not a human creature. He is kind of God of whom Hook wants to know “who and what” he is.

The boodthirstiness remains in these enchanted world, it does not bring about misfortune to those who is from real world, the fact is, Wendy, Jhon and Michael come back their home safes and sounds. It is like a escape to our repression of our wild nature that must be discharged in a place where sensorship from real world does not apply, it is a psychological place where our savage instinct domains. Especially for boys.

Wendy

             Wendy makes me remember some plays of my childhood. Maybe for most of you it was different, but for those who lived in a country side maybe shared this same experience. These plays in questions, were plays in which we pretended being adults. So, our parent’s daily lives were reproduced in these plays. For instance, my sister had little pans, and we (my sister, me and my neighbors) plays “cozinhadinha” and, similar to Never land’s meal, sometimes it was real, sometimes it was just make believe.  The interesting was the rules strongly marked: The girls cooked and played the whole of ours mothers or wives, which implied take care of childs, household chores, while the boys fathers or sun’s role. Even a marriage was played sometimes.  

                It has also another play which was forbidden for those children who did not reached the appropriate age, think more than nine years old. It was called “salada mixta”. I think it was kind of rite of passage to teenage, because it was similar to a blind date you needed to choose what you would give to your unknown partner: a kiss, a hug , or a hand shake.

                Thinking about that time, it seems to me, Wendy, different from Alice in Wonderland, is situated in this rite of passage. Likewise Tinker, Lily, Wendy wanted to be more than a mother. Even Peter figured this out, without knowing what it could be: When Peter said his exact feelings for her was “those of a devoted son” Wendy got angy and  “went and sat by herself at the extreme end of the room.” To this behaviour, Peter remarked puzzled: “You are so queer … and Tiger Lily is just the same. There is something she wants to be to me, but she says it is not my mother.” Thinker as well got angry when Peter proposed her being his mother, and sweared “You silly ass!”

         Wendy herself does not recognize herself as a girl, as we can see when she said what they really wanted  “[I]t isn’t for a lady to tell.” Wendy as the other ladies of Neverland desires to play the role of a woman, not only of a mother. Therefore, Peter is a complex desillusion because at the same time he seems to be the precious boy with whom all girls wanted to date.  

         Wendy, different from Lily and Tinker, belongs to real world. Thus, she incorporates the upbringing of the Victorian girls. What society expected from her, and her role in this Make believe World is a reflection of her future.

NeverLand

I think it is impossible to read Peter Pan and do not remember our childhood. At least in my case, it is astonishing how a similar place as Neverland comes to my mind: The imaginary world where I lived in my childhood. At that time,  being invited to visit a place as Neverland was my greatest desire. and I did not only  believe it was possible, but I really got there - maybe all children as well.

I also think that it was no franchise between reallity and immagination, both were the same thing. It was actually a world of ourself,  very similar to  Neverland. Where Peter Pan could be compared with our closer friend ( Whose identity would receive the status of immaginary when  we become adults), and Neverland, the environment where we had  games, in which our toys were alive, and our pets ( as Nana) was human beeings with different shape, and our friends were pirates.

For this reason, I think,  Neverland is exactly what it sounds like, Just for adults.  A place that does not exist only for adults. For them,  it is Just a imaginary world,  because all those experiences they had lived, not only are irreversible, but also, they  cannot believe in then anymore. Their conception about those experiences have changed. So that closer friend, is now looked as a ghost friend. Those pets is seen now just as animals, which at that time was antropomorphized. Those toys are not seen even a creatures, Just plastic-shaped. Their adventures with pirates, Just a game.

 Therefore, I think Neverland is in the adults’ viewpoint  toward a world that really exist to a child. Because it is really child’s real world, where it does not have place for delimitation. Where neither the world possibility makes sense, because everything is Just realisation.

falling and flying

When I began to read Alice’s I came to me the impression of  having experimented the same kind of dream in which Alice was involved, After , I finished it,  I was totally convinced that I really had similar experience. I realised that in my childhood I also dreamed that I was falling  into a deepest place. I remember that, after I had told my mother about that dream –  not a mightmare, because on these dreams I had a strange  pleasure merged whit fear – that I was in falling, but after crushing on earth I woke up, as well, She told me that it was common, that every childrem have this kind of dream, because we were growing up.

In the same way, Peter Pan provoked this kind of insight. That is, in my childhood,  it was told me that my frequent dreams that I was flying has related to the course of growing

So I want to know if everybody had this kind of dreams in their childhood. Because, I have the impression the success of these books are in some way related to these childhood occurrences

Tea Party

I think this chapter is the one which causes more controversy. There is here the very distinction of the nonsense world and the real world. Where even time is anthropomorphic creature. Alice is in a maze reality: the mad Hatter dammed to live all his live in a same hour. So, his watch does not need to show hours, which is totally strange to Alice’s conception about time.

Language as social convention seems not work completely there. As we can see when Alice argues with de mad Hatter that   “at least I mean what I say that’s the same thing, you know”.  But in this crazy world the language concept is much more arbitrary. It seems everyone has a inner  mean for it, that makes sense just to themselves. For instance, they keep on their joke with language: “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see”;  “I breathe when I sleep” is the same thing as “I sleep when I breathe”. The reader perceives that the logic about these  utterances is relative. The Dourmouse’s one, for exemple, is logical just to him, because both construction is reasonable to him: he really dreams when he breathes.Therefore, the Mad Hatter concludes: “It is the same thing with you”.

So, I think if we do not try to find meaning in this book, it is really funny. But if we stop trying to find sense on it, as to find a answer to the riddles, we would be crazy.

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