Peter Pan or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) is the title of Scottish playwright and novelist J. M. Barrie's most famous play, and Peter and Wendy (1911) is the tiltle of Barrie's novelisation of it. This is exactly the version we will talk about.
Let me introduce you to some of the characters:
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| PETER PAN |
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| WENDY |
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| Mr. & Mrs. DARLING |
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| THE LOST BOYS |
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| NANA |
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| TINKER BELL |
Peter Pan is a naughty child who always listens to Mrs. Mary Darling's bedtime stories by the open window. One night, he is spotted and while trying to escape he loses his shadow. On his way to get his shadow back he wakes Wendy Darling up. She helps him with his shadow by sewing it back to him again.
Peter soon discovers Wendy knows a lot of bedtime stories, he invites her to Neverland to be a mother of his gang, the Lost Boys. She accepts and takes her two brothers, Michael and John, along with her.
It takes Wendy no time at all when they get to Neverland to assume the role of a mother figure. The Darlings are taken through several adventures. Some dangerous ones ocurring at Mermaids' Lagoon.
Peter and the Lost Boys save the Indian princess Tiger Lily.
It is in this adventure when they get involved in a battle with Captain Hook.
Peter Pan gets wounded and he thinks he is going to die. In the meantime Wendy begins to fall in love with him and ask sPeter what kind of feelings he has for her, and Peter tells her that he is like her faithfull son.
Wendy is a bit dissapointed and while telling a story she remembers about her parents and decides to return to England. Peter gets very mad. Unfortunately, Wendy and the Lost Boys are capturaded by Captain Hook, who also tries to poison Peter's medicine while he is sleeping. Tinker Bell, who has no time to warn him about the poison, drinks the medicine herself causing her near death. Tinker is secretly in love with Peter and she is very jealous of Wendy.
Peter is able to save Wendy and the Lost Boys , and so defeats Captain Hook and the pirates. In the end, Wendy decides that her place is at home, so she brings all the boys back to London except for Peter.
Peter promises to return for Wendy every spring. The end of the play has Wendy looking out the window and saying into space, " You won't forget to come for me, Peter ? Please, please don't forget ".
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| Don't you forget Neverland! |
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