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  1. Nov 2017
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    Peter Pan<br/>in Kensington Gardens
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    1. xheadley 15 Nov 2017
      He has been too late several times, and when he sees he is too late he runs back to the Thrush’s Nest for his paddle, of which Maimie had told him the true use, and he digs a grave for the child and erects a little tombstone, and carves the poor thing’s initials on it

      This is the second time that the book explicitly glosses over a seemingly violent death. This is a difference between children's books in the past and in the present. Present day authors are more likely to not address the concept at all or to address it very lightly and in a mystical and careful way.

    2. xheadley 15 Nov 2017
      ‘All your ways of playing, ‘ she said with her big eyes on him, ‘ are quite, quite wrong, and not in the least like how boys play.’

      She is his first proper interaction with the outside world. Prior to this he wanted to know how the world was, but never could due to the fact that he only ever interacted with those in the Gardens.

    3. xheadley 15 Nov 2017
      My Lord Duke,’ said the physician elatedly, ‘I have the honour to inform your excellency that your grace is in love.’

      Literalize emotions (love) to the extent at which they aren't so much felt by the individual but have a physical and tangible effect that is determined by another.

    4. xheadley 15 Nov 2017
      They are not a bit cunning after Lock-out, but until Lock-out, my word !

      They want or need to be around children,but do not want to be seen by them. When Peter, who at the time they thought was a human child, was in the Garden after Lock-out they were in panic.

    5. xheadley 14 Nov 2017
      found a multitude of small people drawn up on the shore to contest his landing, and shouting shrilly to him to be off, for it was long past Lock-out Time.

      To the people in the rest of the Garden he is just a human, who shouldn't be there this late.

    6. xheadley 14 Nov 2017
      Was Peter the least gallant of the English mariners who have sailed westward to meet the Unknown ?

      To Peter the real world, the world he is now traveling to, is the Unknown and a world of fantasy.

    8. xheadley 14 Nov 2017
      you will never be able to fly again, not even on windy days. You must live here on the island always

      Now he can't leave the island that he doesn't belong on because he was shown he doesn't belong there.

    9. xheadley 14 Nov 2017
      This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.

      The story of Peter Pan, as with all stories told through a medium of speech, has been altered through the years.

    11. xheadley 14 Nov 2017
      But, like all the most wonderful things that happen in the Gardens, it is done, we concluded, at night after the gates are closed.

      Reminds me of the Labyrinth, where the maze kept changing.

    12. xheadley 13 Nov 2017
      had a series of incredible adventures, one of the least of which was that she kicked off both her boots.

      Marmaduke Perry was a problem because he "behaved like a girl" and Mabel was a problem because she did things that would be typically viewed as masculine, like going on "a series of incredible adventures".

    13. xheadley 13 Nov 2017
      From the Hump we can see the gate that is called after Miss Mabel Grey, the Fig I promised to tell you about.

      Reminds me of Wizard of Oz, in the sense that there are different locations with different types of characters and/or different fantastical elements. Like how there is Munchkinland and Haunted Forest in Wizard of Oz, here there is the Figs and the Hump.

    14. xheadley 13 Nov 2017
      Once she was a new one, because the old one had let go,

      I assume she is the gate keeper and therefore there must always be one there. Is there a magical element? How did a new one appear?

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