How Does Peter Pan Change From The Book

Peter Pan is a household name nowadays, whether it be from the book or the many movies, everybody knows who he is or at has at least heard of him. Because of this and the advances in today’s technology, the book by J.M. Barrie is slowly getting overshadowed and replaced by the movies by Disney. When Disney bought the rights to Peter Pan to make children’s movies, they really limited the whole aspect of J.M. Barrie’s crazy writing style that makes the book what it is by things such as not including any death in the movie, changing character’s mannerisms to make them more appealing, or just eliminating scenes because of time constraints. The most important change from book to movie was not including any sort of death or murder. In the book, Hook gets shoved off the boat and eaten by the crocodile, but in the movie he just gets in a boat and rows off into the distance. Peter Pan’s number one goal was to kill Hook, when he achieved this in the book it really uplifted the readers and started to settle the book to an ending. When Disney made
The main case of this occurs in the character of Tinker Bell. In the book, Tinker Bell can only have one emotion at a time, and for the most part that is anger. In the movie, not much is said about only having one emotion at a time and they turn Tinker Bell into a lovable fairy that isn’t really as bad as J.M. Barrie portrayed her to be in the book. For example, after Hook captures Tinker Bell in the book she tells him where the Lost Boys hideout is, in some of the movies however, Hook and Smee just stumble upon their hideout accidentally. Taking this part of the book out of the movie creates basically a different Tinker Bell that the audiences would love. Despite the audiences enjoying a better and improved Tinker Bell, J.M. Barrie wrote her into be an angry and somewhat untrustworthy fairy, and that is just not how she is depicted in the