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__J.M. Barrie__ (James Matthew Barrie) __Peter Pan__

Source One: **The New Yorker** Lane, Anthony. "Lost Boys". __The New Yorker__ November 22, 2004: 1-5.
 * 1) "Through numerous interpretations on screen and stage -- including a touring company that opened a two-week run at the Warner last night"
 * 2) The main character "Peter Pan" was supposedly J.M. Barrie himself. " There was indeed a real 'Darling' family and 'Peter Pan' was J.M. Barrie himself."
 * 3) Peter Pan was one of the most popular screen plays by J.M. Barrie that continued to prosper when turned into a novel
 * 4) the story is especially shown every year around christmas time
 * 5) the way the story was told and spaced made it captivating along with the interesting characters and setting
 * 6) it is refferred to as a timeless classic
 * 7) this story was written when J.M. Barrie was living in London at the time
 * 8) the rights of the book were given to Britain's Great Ormond Street children's hospital as requested by J.M. Barrie this impacted the society because it was such a noble thing to do
 * 9) with the main focus of perpetual youth behind the classic story makes it all that more popular
 * 10) this story aimed for adults and showed that childrens minds are complex and creative and adults can never understand
 * 11) "I think in regard to the story's endurance, it has a universal theme we can all respond to _ it deals with the issues of growing up, mortality, fear of mortality and forever trying to stay young"
 * 12) "Growing up was code for all the awful things that could happen in the vast unknown; growing up meant you were going to die. That's why the tale haunts us so."
 * 13) "He simply stayed a child, always innocent, no responsibilities. And I think we all love being childish, because it is such a romantic notion. And it's even more important now since there is so much emphasis on staying young"
 * 14) the release of the illustrated edition had a small impact with popularity it didnt hurt or help the book
 * 15) when the story was shown on stage it was portrayed as very cultural
 * 16) this story impacted literature with its approach into childrens confusing minds
 * 17) "Peter Pan Barrie achieved the rarest alchemy of all, the one that no writer can plan or predict: he invented a myth."
 * 18) "The most unfeeling child of all, needless to say, is Peter Pan himself. He flits through the play and the novels, and he has flitted through a century of stage productions and movies, and one result of those flittings is that we regard him as airy and innocuous"
 * 19) the story showed fame because petter pan was the boy that hated mothers which shocked audience
 * 20) the author and his works are often compared to the works of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear

Source Two: **Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society** "Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society". Encyclopedia. April 27, 2010 
 * 1) Story was first presented as a play on the london stage in 1904 then in 1911 it was formed into a novel
 * 2) "Barrie offered to the adult public a particular vision of childhood from the Edwardian threshold of the twentieth century"
 * 3) "Peter Pan, the child hero who never grows up and therefore must remain radically elusive and inassimilable to the adult world."
 * 4) the book was presented in London, while the book was based in London partly and also in a fictitious land called "never never land"
 * 5) the role of peter pan on stage is traditionally played by a woman to portray the young boy
 * 6) "If the nineteenth century fostered a Victorian cult of childhood's innocence, preserved according to rigorous forms of domestic propriety"
 * 7) Peter pan supposedly evolved from Victorian fairy stories, which is also the purpose of tinker bell (the fairy that accompanies him)
 * 8) "The sentiment of the drama and the novel were peculiarly pitched at adults: reminding them that the insides of their children's minds would always be alien, and at the same time that their children would inevitably grow up and cease to be children"
 * 9) This novel and character presented a different type of novel, genre, and ideas to Victorian cult of childhood "Peter Pan played to a new breed of ambivalent nostalgia for childhood"
 * 10) "Invoking the Victorian theatrical nonsense of fairy dust, Barrie conjured with remarkable modernity the abyss that separates adults from children"
 * 11) this story shows that you have to grow up whether you want to or not, never neverland does not exist and there is no place alike it
 * 12) peter pan was developed in j.m. barrie's mind by psychological problems and physical ones due to a troubling childhood which helped him create the boy that never grew up
 * 13) the characters and the story line was admired widely by people of all ages
 * 14) the idea of peter pan came about because the games he used to play with friend's children inspired it
 * 15) "Barrie's story strikes many nerves with adults and children, and has stimulated several musical treatments and films"
 * 16) the story also came about from stories told to a friend of barrie's children "//Peter Pan// evolved gradually from the stories that Barrie told to Sylvia Llewelyn Davies's five young sons"
 * 17) peter Pan was produced for the stage in 1904, but the play had to wait several years for a definitive printed version, and it did not appear as a narrative story until 1911
 * 18) //Peter Pan// was first performed at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in 1904
 * 19) //"Peter Pan// has captured the imagination of generations, spawning feminist critiques, psychological treatises, and even lawsuits:"
 * 20) "And of course, there are the innumerable cinematic retellings, from Disney's animated 1953 classic to last year's live-action version"

Source Three: **US.News** Hallet, Vicky. "US.News". US News. April 29,2010 [].
 * 1) some popular themes of this story are mortality, immortality and the transition from childhood to adulthood
 * 2) it was referred to as "that terrible masterpiece"
 * 3) the book is not as true of a fairytale as the popular disney version which portrays this story as a childrens one
 * 4) some beleive that kind of character is parasitic
 * 5) "J. M. Barrie’s literary reputation rests on one work: Peter Pan, the play, first performed in 1904 to wildly enthusiastic audiences and still performed successfully today."
 * 6) "The character of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, has become iconic in popular culture as well as in children’s literature."
 * 7) "Peter’s story has survived charges of sentimentality to emerge periodically but predictably in every generation to renewed impact."
 * 8) this story resembles the 5 kids barrie wa sleft with when his life companion interest died of cancer
 * 9) Peter Pan is a pantomime
 * 10) (Pantomime is a peculiar British phenomenon, with the accent on peculiar.)
 * 11) Peter Pan was to become the “traditional” Christmas entertainment for English children for over a century
 * 12) in tradition the peter pan role is always played by a girl
 * 13) "the drama of //Peter Pan// in 1904 represented a literal escape from Victorian childhood as the Darling children flew right out the window."
 * 14) "Peter Pan seems to be the mightiest figure in children’s literature, for most writers, especially fantasy writers, have to wrestle with his image at some point, either happily admitting the influence or so steeped in it that they do not even recognize it."
 * 15) "The centenary of Peter Pan reminds us how influential Barrie’s story has been and continues to be; not just popular culture but also much of children’s literature is informed (and misinformed) by Barrie’s ideas."
 * 16) the character peter pan is illiterate
 * 17) When Barrie wrote the play Peter Pan, his name already adorned twenty published volumes and twelve London plays.
 * 18) Barrie’s original name for his imaginary wonderland was The Never Never Never Land. He soon edited it to The Never Never Land, then to The Never Land, and finally to Neverland.
 * 19) The character's name comes from two sources: Peter Llewelyn Davies, one of the boys, and Pan, the mischievous Greek god of the woodlands.
 * 20) "It has also been suggested that the inspiration for the character was Barrie's elder brother David, whose death in a skating accident at the age of thirteen deeply affected their mother"

Source four: **The Boston Globe** Parker, James. "The Real Peter Pan". __The Boston Globe__ February 22, 2004: 1-3
 * 1) Peter Pan first appeared in print in a 1902 book called // The Little White Bird // and was then used in a very successful stage play
 * 2) originally called "the boy who wouldnt grow up"
 * 3) the sequel includes peter pan coming back to wndy but 20 years being passed so he instead becomes friends with wedy's daughter jane
 * 4) this impacted literature and thier culture so much that there are seven statues of Peter Pan playing a set of pipes, cast from a mould by a sculptor
 * 5) A limited edition of this statue has been created to raise money for the children's charity
 * 6) Peter Pan is considered the male hero of the novel and various adaptations
 * 7) The most apparent thematic thread in the story concerns "growing up" (or not), with the character of Peter wanting to remain a child forever in order to avoid the responsibilities of adulthood
 * 8)  "Another theme is mentioned in the 2004 film // Finding Neverland //: "It is all the work of the ticking crocodile. Time is chasing after all of us."
 * 9) There have been several additions to Peter Pan's story
 * 10) "The play is in many ways a more mature and mournful reworking of themes Barrie explored in the tale of the boy who refused to grow up"
 * 11) another name used for it was Peter and Wendy
 * 12) also the adventures of peter pan
 * 13) the reason for peter pan being considered an alter ego of barrie is also due to how barrie at a young age quit developing and remained at his 5 foot height
 * 14) the character wendy in peter pan was based of a true person in barries life that had passed away
 * 15) it was argued that the origanl texts were not politically correct
 * 16) A problem adults found in Peter Pan was that there is a lot of implied and explicit violence in Neverland, mostly coming from the pirates
 * 17) he specified that the copyright of the play should go to Great Ormond Street Hospital
 * 18) the original is argued completely different from disneys version it is less aimed at children and the adventures of peter pan
 * 19) peter pans shadow is used as a metaphor for the character and it's alter ego the author himself
 * 20) peter pan was the most famous and enduring work for barrie