This document provides information about the character Peter Pan from J.M. Barrie's story, including: There are multiple versions of the Peter Pan story with differing details. Peter Pan takes children from their nurseries to Neverland to teach them to fly and fight Captain Hook, though one version says he kills the children when they get older. Peter is a clever boy who doesn't want to grow up and has problems sharing his feelings, though he ensures others are safe. While some versions portray Peter as killing or kidnapping, he is doing the children a favor by taking them on an adventure. Peter's only goal is to kill Captain Hook.

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2. History
The stories behind the first movie about “Peter Pan” are so many and we don’t really
know which one’s the original. But there’s two of them which’s more known than the
others.
Both of them have the same “information” about Peter but with different stories.
Most of them are sad but there’s a version made for younger children on Disney
Channel which isn’t.

3. The name of the author is J.M. Barrie.
James Matthew Barrie, known as J.M. Barrie was
born the 9th of May 1860 in Kirremuir, Angus.
He died in June, the 19th 1937.
Barrie was a Brittish (Scottish) author and
playwright.
The story was first released in 1904.

4. “Story 1”
When a child has died he comes into the nursery by it’s window to take the child with
him beyond the stars to a place called “Neverland”.
Apparently they get their lives back as soon as they’ve arrived.
Peter teaches them how to fly and fight with sword and bows against his enemy
Captain Hook and his pirates.
Hook has only got one arm because Peter chopped off
one of his arms and gave it to a hungry crocodile which
has been chasing him ever since.

5. “Story 2”
Peter flies to childerns’ nurseries to take them to Neverland
and teaches them how to fly and fight against Hook, as in the
first story.
But by the time as the children start to grow up and get older,
he kills them because in Neverland it’s against the “rules” to
grow up. Either he leaves them in the forest all alone or he
kills them himself.
Apart from that part these two stories are almost exactly the
same.

6. In this story Peter sometimes flies to reality, also called London.
He often flies around in silent, looking through people’s windows just to spy on them. One night he flies to the
family Darling’s window in the nursery where there’s three children, Wendy, John and Michael laying asleep in
their beds.
But he loses his shadow and wendy wakes up and helps him to sew it back on.
He asks her to come with him to Neverland to become a foster mother to the lost boys.
“Story 3” (Also my favorite)

7. In Neverland Wendy and her brothers fight with pirates and meet Indians.
But Captain Hook has been told by Tinkerbell (Peter pan’s fairy) what Peter’s weak
point is. His feelings for Wendy.

8. Personality
Peter is a young, clever boy who doesn’t want to
grow up, ever.
He seems to have problems with sharing his
feelings, in this case to admit that he’s in love
with Wendy.
He’s very brave and he always make sure that
everyone’s okay, at least the people he care
about.

9. He’s blonde and curly with blue eyes, skinny and regular length.
He’s wearing clothes which looks like their made of twigs and leaves and he looks quite
dirty.
He doesn’t really have any power,
but with Tinkerbell’s fairy dust he can fly and
that’s how Wendy, John and Michael can fly
too.

10. When?
There are soooo many different movies about Peter Pan,
there’s one from 1991, one from 2003, 2004, 2008, 2014 and 2015.
I bet there’s a hundred more!
The story was written 1904 but the first movie was released 1954 and most of the
movies, (at least those which aren’t animated) take place in the early 90’s.

11. I don’t like the new, modern, animated movies about Peter Pan.
The first ones are more like “history” and so much better!
But probably they released a lot of animated new movies of the story because the
older ones are maybe too hard for children to understand (of course it depends in
which age they are, I’m thinking maybe 3-4).

12. Good/evil?
I would call Peter a hero even though he kills the lost
boys in some of the stories because that’s all he has ever
known, it’s totally natural for him and he can’t really help
it because no one has ever told him it’s wrong.
In the old stories he’s not killing anyone or kidnapping
kids from their nurseries, he’s just taking them on an
adventure, he’s doing them a favor.

13. Goals?
Peter only has one goal in life, to kill Captain Hook. Besides that he doesn’t have any
goals, he’s just taking the children to Neverland to give them something to remember.

14. See you in Neverland!