The Bridge Neverland

In the novel The Bridge to Neverland by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry is about a sequel to the famous kids book “Peter Pan”. The book is similiar except it has been modified and explained in details of the original story. The most interesting part of the book is the chronological order the two authors uses in their final book of Starcatchers series. This book uses the prequel of Peter and the Starcatchers in order to show how the book is supposedly seen in the modern era. Readers should be interested in this book if they like long term unexpected sequel of the famous childhood story: Peter Pan. The main problem in the story was Aiden and Sarah Cooper escaping from the “evil”. Evil named “Ombra” from the books that Sarah read came to alive and began hunting for Sarah and Aiden as they “found” the last stardust in the century. In the beginning, they first met “hundreds of big crows” (pg110) coming toward them as soon as the openned the stardust chest. They had tried to close the window and keep the crows that were in “perfect synchronization looking like a monk or priest wearing black robe” (pg114). The problem began from here, as Ombra, which Aiden refers as “It’s Him” (pg114). Ombra causes the main problem for them of profiting off stardust or to return it. In the end of the
story, Sarah, Aiden, and J.D Aster are able to successfully get rid of the stardust out of the modern city. They found out that the location, the “bridge” to Neverland is the Peter Pan ride. The figured it out by knowing that it was “built in 1971” (pg259) which was same date Neverland was separated from the world. The moment Peter earned the stardust, the story was over. Peter had “risen off the floor”(pg422) and shown Sarah and Aiden’s parents that he is the real, solving the problems of the “flying police van attention” (pg424). The conflict was solved with Peter promising to return “soon” (pg434) and foreshadowing the the “reflection of the light” (pg437) of Ombra. The main theme of the story is the plot twist in time and the objectives. In the beginning, the story refers Sarah and Aiden’s objective to be “finding existing starcatchers and return[ing] the stardust” (pg136) but at the end, it ended up being completely unexpected by bringing stardust to “Neverland and [to] Peter” (pg 419). It was expected that the two siblings would return it to starcatchers, but it was unexpected that they return it directly to Peter Pan. The theme of time plot twist of having actual Peter Pan in the book was life threatening to modern citizens who had no clue about this. Bridge to Neverland took place in Europe during early 2000s.The events that occurred in Europe was important because the story’s main climax is reached when the J.D Aster and Mrs.
Carmoody comes up with a theory that the “Peter Pan Ride” in Disney in Europe is the “bridge” to Neverland. The theory of the bridge shows that the entrance is specifically in the Europe’s Disney not any other disney. If the location changed, it would have been completely different, since the main road that connects the real world with Neverland was Peter Pan Ride, and since it only exists in Europe’s Disney, the story’s bridge would have changed and the method of entering Neverland would also have changed as
well. Author created the mood in the story by using multiple situations throughout the story. He used the wolves guarding the stardust, Ombra chasing as a crow, meeting of Captain Hook, and meeting of Peter Pan as well. Although there are many other situations that formed the mood, the main was the stress the Aiden and Sarah was getting while being chased by many people. They were chased by polices, FBI, citizens, and evil, which caused the mood to be intensified through the situation they go through every page and every chapter. If this book had a sequel, I expect the sequel to include the return of Ombra who tries to return to the Neverland in order to take back the stardust which was taken away and used to destroy him previously. I believe Sarah and Aiden will visit the Neverland for fun to meet Peter Pan, but ends up bringing Ombra along, which will most likely cause a conflict by taking over the Indians that lives in the Neverland. The events that would happen would be war, Peter and the kids, against the Indians who has their mind taken over by Ombra who hopes to find a new body: Peter Pan’s stardust infested body.