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Peter has a nonchalant, devil-may-care attitude, and is fearlessly cocky when it comes to putting himself in danger. Barrie writes that when Peter thought he was going to die on Marooners’ Rock, he felt scared, yet he felt only one shudder. With this blithe attitude, he says, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” In the play, the unseen and unnamed narrator ponders what might have been if Peter had stayed with Wendy, so that his cry might have become, “To live would be an awfully big adventure!”, “but he can never quite get the hang of it”.Barrie, J. M. ”Peter Pan”. Hodder & Stoughton, 1928, Act V, Scene 2.

Peter has a nonchalant, devil-may-care attitude, and is fearlessly cocky when it comes to putting himself in danger. Barrie writes that when Peter thought he was going to die on Marooners’ Rock, he felt scared, yet he felt only one shudder. With this blithe attitude, he says, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” In the play, the unseen and unnamed narrator ponders what might have been if Peter had stayed with Wendy, so that his cry might have become, “To live would be an awfully big adventure!”, “but he can never quite get the hang of it”.Barrie, J. M. ”Peter Pan”. Hodder & Stoughton, 1928, Act V, Scene 2.

In [[Peter Pan & Wendy]], Peter Pan starts off as an arrogant, reckless boy who insists that he’s always right and always wins, with defeat never really crossing his mind even when asked. He even won’t admit he needs help from others when he brags about his achievements. But after nearly dying to Hook in their second encounter and then rescued by Tiger Lily, Peter learns humility and not only does he credits his friends for making him strong, but he now understands how badly he mistreated Hook and tries to become reconciled with his former friend rather than continuing their rivalry.

In [[Peter Pan & Wendy]], Peter Pan starts off as an arrogant, reckless boy who insists that he’s always right and always wins, with defeat never really crossing his mind even when asked. He even won’t admit he needs help from others when he brags about his achievements. But after nearly dying to Hook in their second encounter and then rescued by Tiger Lily, Peter learns humility and not only does he credits his friends for making him strong, but he now understands how badly he mistreated Hook and tries to with his former friend rather than continuing their rivalry.

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Character created by James Matthew Barrie

Fictional character

Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland.

Peter Pan has become a cultural icon symbolizing youthful innocence and escapism. In addition to two distinct works by Barrie, The Little White Bird (1902, with chapters 13–18 published in Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in 1906), and the West End stage play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up (1904, which expanded into the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy), the character has been featured in a variety of media and merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie’s works. These include the 1924 silent film, 1953 Disney animated film, a 2003 dramatic/live-action film, a television series and many other works.

Barrie commissioned a statue of Peter Pan by the sculptor George Frampton, which was erected overnight in Kensington Gardens on 30 April 1912 as a surprise to the children of London.^[1] Six other statues have been cast from the original mould and displayed around the world. In 2002, Peter Pan featured on a series of UK postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail on the centenary of Barrie’s creation of the character.^[2]

Peter Pan first appeared as a character in Barrie’s The Little White Bird (1902), a novel for adults. In chapters 13–18, titled “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens”, Peter is a seven-day-old baby and has flown from his nursery to Kensington Gardens in London, where the fairies and birds taught him to fly. He is described as “betwixt-and-between” a boy and a bird. Barrie returned to the character of Peter Pan, putting him at the centre of his stage play titled Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, which premiered on 27 December 1904 at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London.^[3] Following the success of the 1904 play, Barrie’s publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, extracted the Peter Pan chapters of The Little White Bird and published them in 1906 under the title Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, with the addition of illustrations by Arthur Rackham.^[4] Barrie later…