"Wendy is a young 12 to 13-year-old girl. She goes on to meet Peter Pan and becomes a companion to him. Although not sure about joining Peter in his adventures in the beginning because she had her brothers to look after, along with her mother whom she often accompanied, over time she goes to Neverland with Peter because of her curious ways of seeking adventure." Note: The citation and the title are left unchanged. This source was crucial in providing a background look into Wendy's character. It explains how she got her name, describes her appearance, and provides background information about the beginning stages of her life. This information was essential in helping me visualize who Wendy really was as a character. The source is cited as: Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Barrie was and provided more insight into how he created these special movie characters. It also revealed the people from whom he molded these characters. This source helped me gather my thoughts before starting my research project. This source discusses the Victorian Era and its relevance to Peter Pan. It explores the Victorian plot style, which serves as the foundation for the novel Peter Pan. The source demonstrates how the author utilized this era to influence the characters in the story, allowing him to delve deeper and create an amazing storyline. The importance of this piece was evident as it played a significant role in shaping the relationships between the characters. The Victorian background information provided insight into the actions and behaviors of the characters. Therefore, it is clear that this piece was crucial in understanding the dynamics of the story. (Note: the citation remains unchanged.) "Neverland" is the proclaimed island where Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, and Tinker Bell reside. It is a place where one can remain young forever and never have to grow up, representing the meaning of eternal childhood. However, this magical place is also accompanied by the dreaded Captain Hook and his evil pirate crew. The significance of this source is that it showed me the type of life that Peter and the others lived on the island. The reason Tinker Bell is important is that she created tension between herself and Wendy. Wendy was receiving more attention from Peter, causing Tinker Bell to become jealous. The tension between the characters helped me to further question the subject of my research and aided in my attempt to conclude answers to solve my research proposal question. "The Real Peter Pan" discusses the actual family that inspired J.M. Barrie to create the characters in his famous story. Barrie's study of the family provided him with the knowledge and inspiration needed to write a wonderful book with a captivating story. He credited and thanked the family for inspiring him and even became friends with them, remaining close to everyone in the family. This was a wonderful source of information. "It was important because it was the whole reason that Barrie started the story of Peter Pan, because of that family."
...eriences. I was able to learn in depth, about the extensive and agonizing journey immigrants experienced to arrive to America by reading from the primary sources which gave me a better understanding of their situations. For example, I learned that if a husband or wife died half way sea, the other person is held responsible for paying for the dead (Hollitz, 45). The pictures and maps also enhanced the way information can be interpreted through primary sources. The paintings of Puritan children clearly demonstrate their feelings and attitude. I was able to see through their uncomfortable position, life style, and virtue by observing their posture, facial expression, and the way they dress. The primary source documents turned out to be very useful in many ways that assisted me to come up with a better understanding in details with chapter 2-4 in Give Me Liberty.
...e of literary works. Foster dedicates an entire chapter of his book to how novels have common plots and themes to fairy tales. The fairy tale Peter Pan entails a young boy with magical powers, refusing to grow up. Collins at a younger age coincides with the fairy tale character Peter Pan.
For it is a commonplace of our understanding of the period that the Victorian writer wanted above all to “stay in touch.” Comparing his situation with that of his immediate predecessors, he recognized that indulgence in a self-centered idealism was no longer viable in a society which ever more insistently urged total involvement in its occupations. The world was waiting to be improved upon, and solved, and everyone, poets, included had to busy themsel...
keeps the reader interested in his topic. He addresses the opposition quite well which adds a large
did it give the reader something exciting to read, but it also was able to put an interesting perspective on life itself.
...I believe it provided the reader with a better understanding of the different reasons the girls were acting in the nature they did.
Peter Pan has appeared in many adaptations, sequels, and prequels. Peter Pan first appeared in a section of The Little White Bird, a 1902 novel that was originally written for adults. In 1904, Peter Pan was turned into a play and since the play was so successful Barrie’s publishers, extracted chapters 13–18 of The Little White Bird and republished them in 1906 under a different title. This story was adapted and changed into a novel, was published in 1911 as Peter and Wendy, later the name changed to Peter Pan and Wendy, and then changed to Peter Pan, as we know it today. The tale that we are familiar with was even expanded more. In 1953 Walt D...
is crucial to the review because without it a reader may believe the story has little
At first glance the characters Connie from “Where are you going? Where have you been?” and Little Red Riding Hood from the classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” may seem to have nothing in common. However, from the start one can compare how much they actually have in common. Though these two characters are very different they are the same in many ways. Their story, from beginning to end, is similar. It is easy to see how alike and different they are with the description of Connie and Little Red Riding Hood’s lives, the relationship with their wolves, and their tragic endings.
Victorian literature is a representation of society at the time. These Victorian authors have expressed their concerns with the dangers of the restrictions of society and the effect it has on women. Both “The Yellow Wallpaper and Wuthering Heights show the repression of women, the dependency on men, but also the resistance to a patriarchal society and its norms.
Goldilocks defies authority by breaking into someone’s home, that she knows nothing about. She is disrespecting the family by breaking and entering, eating their food, breaking a chair and by sleeping in their beds. This can cause children to just walk in to a stranger’s house due to the door being open, this also gives showed things them it is okay to disrespect people. Reading this story can show the kids that bad things are okay and that there are no consequences for the actions they proceeded to do.
...From The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Victorian Age (George Landow, Prof. of English and Art History, Brown Univ.)
...ing message and provide an emotional punch to equal the book's resonance, which would have probably made a longer film, but added to the continuity if the film.
I am writing this paper because I was assigned to write it as a class project. Along the way I realized the importance of sharing the real meanings of all these stories. Stories are important because in the society we live in things are constantly changing. Fairytales change but the base of the story always remain the same no matter how many times it has been retold. It’s important to reveal the true meanings of these stories, even with its dark characteristics, because the world is dark .Children need to know that there are people that have told stories relatable to what they are going through. Fairytales help the development of children; it helps their maturity as they confront someone else’s tough situations, instilling hope of a more positive ou...
The Pied Piper began the story by wanting to use his skills to make money. He trusted the townspeople and got rid of all of the rats on the promise to get paid, but the townspeople broke their promise and this triggered a change in the piper. The children disappeared when the piper decided to seek revenge on the townspeople, so he used his skills to get rid of the children just like he got rid of the rats. The resulted in the townspeople being upset, but they did not mourn in the way that was expected.