haggardbat
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- Posted: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:37:54 +0000
Somehow I feel that it's simply because he didn't want to. Just like that.
Although if you read Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens it alludes to his being originally human, then thinking himself to be half-bird. I don't know if that has any bearing.
As an additional note, people of Barrie's time would have known Lost Boy as a euphemism for dead. So perhaps he did, as has been suggested, die. It was also said that Mrs. Darling remembers stories that went around when she was a girl, of him taking children who died part of the way to heaven so they wouldn't be frightened. In that sense, I like to think of the Neverland as being a child's heaven, and the boys there simply being in a better place, although Peter himself seems much too alive to really be dead!
Another thing that I've heard is that there is no explanation because Peter is a reflection of Barrie's own feeling of never having properly grown up and his own sense of a bad self-confidence; but I don't like that idea at all (although there seems to have been some good arguments made for it) so I tend to ignore it.
Although if you read Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens it alludes to his being originally human, then thinking himself to be half-bird. I don't know if that has any bearing.
As an additional note, people of Barrie's time would have known Lost Boy as a euphemism for dead. So perhaps he did, as has been suggested, die. It was also said that Mrs. Darling remembers stories that went around when she was a girl, of him taking children who died part of the way to heaven so they wouldn't be frightened. In that sense, I like to think of the Neverland as being a child's heaven, and the boys there simply being in a better place, although Peter himself seems much too alive to really be dead!
Another thing that I've heard is that there is no explanation because Peter is a reflection of Barrie's own feeling of never having properly grown up and his own sense of a bad self-confidence; but I don't like that idea at all (although there seems to have been some good arguments made for it) so I tend to ignore it.