There has been a rumor flying around saying that Peter Pan is the bad guy and that Hook is the good guy. Well, if you people would actually read, you would know that this is not true.
What makes people believe it to be true?
"The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out"--Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, Chapter 5, Paragraph 2.
Reality of that paragraph:
Read the story.
It does not say he killed them. No one knows what J. M. meant, but it is clear that the "according as they get killed and so on" part could be from pirates killing them or possible death from the dangerous creatures of Neverland the lost boys hunt and kill. Peter cared for Wendy as a son would a mother and accepted her brothers as one of his lost boys. He let them go home, not kill them.
What started the rumors?
There is a TV series which is doing their own take of our classic fairytales. The name of this show is called “Once Upon A Time”. A lot of very old tales of our childhood did, indeed, end horribly or unhappily, however, “Peter Pan” is one of the few stories Disney adapted into a movie that did not have a deathly tone regarding the main character and the Lost Boys. “Once Upon A Time” states that Peter Pan kills any of the children who grow too old and that Hook was the good guy, one of the many Lost Boys who survived Peter’s murderous ways.
Your argument is invalid!
Nothing you say to counter this will be taken seriously unless you actually read the book itself. Saying anything about “The Little White Bird” is, also, considered invalid as the only time “killed” is ever mentioned in it was in XII. The Grand Tour of the Gardens, Paragraph 10.
“Next comes St. Govor's Well, which was full of water when Malcolm the Bold fell into it. He was his mother's favourite, and he let her put her arm round his neck in public because she was a widow, but he was also partial to adventures and liked to play with a chimney-sweep who had killed a good many bears. The sweep's name was Sooty, and one day when they were playing near the well, Malcolm fell in and would have been drowned had not Sooty dived in and rescued him, and the water had washed Sooty clean and he now stood revealed as Malcolm's long-lost father. So Malcolm would not let his mother put her arm round his neck any more.”
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What makes people believe it to be true?
"The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out"--Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, Chapter 5, Paragraph 2.
Reality of that paragraph:
Read the story.
It does not say he killed them. No one knows what J. M. meant, but it is clear that the "according as they get killed and so on" part could be from pirates killing them or possible death from the dangerous creatures of Neverland the lost boys hunt and kill. Peter cared for Wendy as a son would a mother and accepted her brothers as one of his lost boys. He let them go home, not kill them.
What started the rumors?
There is a TV series which is doing their own take of our classic fairytales. The name of this show is called “Once Upon A Time”. A lot of very old tales of our childhood did, indeed, end horribly or unhappily, however, “Peter Pan” is one of the few stories Disney adapted into a movie that did not have a deathly tone regarding the main character and the Lost Boys. “Once Upon A Time” states that Peter Pan kills any of the children who grow too old and that Hook was the good guy, one of the many Lost Boys who survived Peter’s murderous ways.
Your argument is invalid!
Nothing you say to counter this will be taken seriously unless you actually read the book itself. Saying anything about “The Little White Bird” is, also, considered invalid as the only time “killed” is ever mentioned in it was in XII. The Grand Tour of the Gardens, Paragraph 10.
“Next comes St. Govor's Well, which was full of water when Malcolm the Bold fell into it. He was his mother's favourite, and he let her put her arm round his neck in public because she was a widow, but he was also partial to adventures and liked to play with a chimney-sweep who had killed a good many bears. The sweep's name was Sooty, and one day when they were playing near the well, Malcolm fell in and would have been drowned had not Sooty dived in and rescued him, and the water had washed Sooty clean and he now stood revealed as Malcolm's long-lost father. So Malcolm would not let his mother put her arm round his neck any more.”
Not everything you read on the internet is true.
Fact check your information next time.
