is peter pan about dead children?

Question

is peter pan about dead children?

Answer 1

No! It's about the small child inside each of us who wants to go on forever always being a child and never having responsibilities or having to grow up! Only Peter Pan, of course, actually stays a child forever. All the rest of the Lost Boys follow Wendy and her brothers back home and ask the Darling family to adopt them. They all gradually forget about Neverland, except Wendy, who tells her daughter and granddaughter all about the adventures she had there. And at the end of the book, Peter shows up at Wendy's nursery window to take her back to Neverland, but it is Wendy's children and grandchildren who go with Peter. You really need to read the book. It is fantastic. That's why it's a classic. I really hope this helped you.

Answer 2

Is Peter Pan Dead

Answer 3

Maybe I've read between the lines too much or others take things at face value way too much. I think that Peter Pan is dead but the others are alive. The others eventually grow up and do the adult thing and Peter never does, and I honestly believe that it isn't because he doesn't want to, it's because he can't. He has probably done the same thing many times with many children and always gets left behind as they grow older and eventually forget about him.

Answer 4

Yes and no. You must first understand that the only one that does not age in Neverland is Peter Pan. Everyone else grows older but much slower than normal. So a good guess might be that Peter Pan is a sort of demon created by the fairies from a dead boy. Now the movies is about a very powerful being (Peter) with the mentality of a child (there is no right and wrong for him) that kidnappes children. In some cases the children get persuaded to remain in Neverland for more time than they should (usually this happens if the children are orphans). After that they are forced by Peter to remain. When they get too old they are usually killed by Peter usually by putting them in very dangerous situations (like killing bears bare handed) . The few that escape remain in groups one of them being the group of the pirates. It is also about the fairy TinkerBell who apparently brought Peter back to life in this demonic form after becoming in love with him.And why does Peter does all this? Because he is bored and wants someone to play with. Also he calls death "the greatest adventure". He has no understanding of the gravity of his actions.

Answer 5

JAQ is right, it's an interpretation based on passages in both "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" & "Peter and Wendy" There is loose support for Peter Pan being dead, but if so, it would still be an interpretation as all other signs would point to Peter Pan being alive. Regarding the "ageless" properties (or not) of the Neverland, Barrie does not specifically state it, no. However, given certain elements of the story, in order for them to remain true, can lead one to the same conclusion. Such as Hook still being on the island. He's a pirate contemporary of the ones in "Treasure Island" (as"Peter and Wendy" references) and thus would have to have some influenced by some sort of age defying effect to still be alive and remain in the Neverland. The difference (or important factor) it seems, is that Peter Pan is ONLY one who doesn't ever grow up. All others in the Neverland either already are grown ups (and arguably frozen at that age) or eventually leave (or get killed) the island and thus become adults.

Answer 6

I've heard that interpretation before, but not from anyone who's read the book or the script of the play carefully. Contrary to what Disney says, Neverland isn't a place where no one gets any older. That's something special about *Peter*. Everyone else there grows up eventually, so the Lost Boys, the Darling children, etc. clearly aren't dead.

Answer 7

I know, I already like Michael Jackson before he passed, but ironically a week or so before, I gathered an obsession with peter pan, then we lost our real life musical GENIUS of a peter pan. as michael said, it's only those with a filthy/dirty mind, who could perceive that as being wrong, as long as it isn't sexual, what's the problem, that's what the most loving thing to do is, share your bed.

Answer 8

The movie "Peter Pan" is about 3 siblings home alone, they are lured to come with a boy who will take them to neverland where no one grows up and live a life with the "lost boys". It is believed that this movie symbolizes 3 siblings who die and an angel shows up to bring the children to a place where kids go when they die. The place "never land" is a place where kids will never grow up (die) and live as children forever. The name "lost boy" symbolizes kids who were lost to death. In the movie, peter pan teaches the siblings how to fly which is believed to symbolize that the kids are given their wings so they can become angels.

Answer 9

No. Peter Pan is not about dead children. Peter Pan is a fairy tale in which 3 kids meet Peter Pan who can fly. Tinker Bell, Peter's fairy friend gives the children pixy dust so that they too can fly. Then they all fly together to Never Land where the meet Pirates, mermaids, and Indians for an all inclusive adventure!

Answer 10

Yes. As someone has mentioned, they never grow older because of that. They are in the purgatory looking to save others that are close to death and all of Peter's friends are angels, hence the flying. Capt hook is the devil committing all the acts of sin, trying to get the angels to fall like him.



Peter even has a shadow that messes with the kids that are not dead and if you look at it, that shadow is a spirit trying to help them. Peter even says that any one that touches Neverland will never return. Just like death/heaven.



If you read the real story about Peter, you will see he is not she person you grew up to, he is crazy.

Answer 11

Ya its about these kids that get lost and then find out they dont wanna grow up when they meet Peter Pan a boy that was born in a 'alternare world'

Answer 12

"Perhaps he [Peter] was a little boy who died young, and this is how the author conceived his subsequent adventures. Perhaps he was a boy who was never born at all - a boy whom some people longed for, but who never came. It may be that those people hear him at the window more clearly than children do.“



--J.M. Barrie, 1908

Answer 13

ummmm nooooooooo.



But where Peter is from (Neverland) they never grow older, so I suppose the children should be dead at one point or another if they where anyplace but there.

Answer 14

No. It's about the world of Neverland, where people don't age at all, and when the main characters GO to Neverland, neither do they.

Answer 15

nooo its about not wanting to grow up...to always be a kid.

Answer 16

it is now

Answer 17

No .. WTF?!?!?