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| Peter Pan playing the flute. Found on flickr. |
- Classic story with a character twist
- Hook is the hero of Neverland while Pan and the fairies are corrupt
- The introduction describes the way in which the story is presented and what role the author plays in relaying that story
- author is the audience for this example
Style
- written in a novel-like style
- the dialogue between the author and Hook is formatted like a conversation
- written as a story within a story
- story begins with the author interviewing Hook
- Hook begins to tell a story during his interview
- story ends with Pan arriving to Neverland with a new batch of kids, different than the Darlings from the story Hook was sharing in the interview
- similar to a movie where the main character visits a memory of the past and that memory lasts the whole movie til the very end when it shows the character in present time
- point of view switches back and forth between Hook and Pan, sharing some of their thoughts while they perform different actions even though Hook is recounting the story
Setting
- especially in the introduction, the author took the time to put in some very descriptive words about the scenery
- the images that the author chose helped set the scene in my mind
- descriptive portions about the scenery are used sparingly but when they are written they serve a purpose and fit well with the context
Plot
- Hook and Pan both equally fascinating to me
- Hook and Pan's character traits and roles are swapped in this version of the story
- Pan's charisma and child-like behavior is feigned and he possesses a darker quality to his character
- instead of the free-willed character of the cartoon, he acts with a hidden agenda
- does not demonstrate a pureness of heart
- tries to use the Lost Boys instead of taking care of them
- Hook takes on more of an empathetic and parental tone
- he suffers injuries from Pan in the hopes that it frees him from his corruption
- he acts in the interest of preserving each aspect of what it means to be a child
- includes imagination
- care-free attitude
- postponing the despair of the adult world and responsibilities
- he is the caretaker of Neverland
Bibliography
Author - Jake's Storybook
Title and Link - Peter Pan: Revisited
Hi JT, I saw your notes here, but reading another student's Storybook was not the reading assignment for this week... there is an Anthology of stories that everybody is reading, and the idea is to use one of the stories in that Anthology for your own story; here is how that works: Week 2 Reading B: Anthology. The Storybook you picked here is a really good one (the writing is really excellent!), so how about this: you can declare what you did here as the extra credit reading for Week 2, okay? And hopefully you'll still have time to read the Anthology so that you'll have the materials you need for your own story this week.
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