Book review: Peter Pan

Peter Pan

Book review

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The main themes in Peter Pan are imagination, courage versus cowardice, maternal love, and preserving memory.

Theme

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”

About the author:

J.M.Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland. He did his primary education at Glasglow academy and continued his studies at Edinburgh. There, he studied literature. He wrote several news paper. One of the most famous news paper of J.M.Barrie is St.James Gazette. After working for a few years in this field, he soon became a novelist. Most books written by him are based on adventure and it is very interesting!! His other books are – Better dead, When a man is single, A little white bird, My lady Nicotine, Peter Pan, A kiss for Cindrella and many more!!!

Peter Pan is one of the most wonderful book written by J.M.Barrie. It is story of a child who loves adventure. His name is Peter Pan. One of the most interesting thing in that child is - he can fly! But, he never grows. One night, while he was listening to Mrs.Darling’s [one of the character in this story] bedtime story, he loses his shadow when he was escaping from her house. When he comes back, he requests Wendy to attach his shadow back to him. Wendy did as directed by Peter Pan. When Peter finds that she is so kind, he requests her to come with him to the island of Neverland, the most beautiful place to go with a girl. There, they enjoys exploring new world. I don’t know whether there is a place called Neverland. But, in this story Neverland is situated above the clouds. This story is unimaginable. But, each and every sentence is written beautifully!!!

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.” “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

Peter Pan is based on JM Barrie’s older brother, David, who died in an ice-skating accident the day before his fourteenth birthday. In the minds of Barrie and his mother, David was in fact, a boy “who would never grow up.”