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    ENG234 – Essay 1 (Topic 7) The power of narration: Peter Pan The narrator in J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan creates readers to develop a consciousness of form through the knowledge from narratives. The more they read the more readers would uncontrollably start to grow up. The narrator readdresses the story from a third person viewpoint with a first person opinion‚ prompting a unique presence. However readers know that the narrator is not in the story‚ he has no material existence and hovers in the background

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    Victorian Influences on Literature In 1904 J.M. Barrie published the book Peter Pan. The novel first started as a play‚ and since then been reproduced into many different version. It published a few short years after Queen Elizabeth passed away and the Victorian Era had come to an end. The characters have specific characteristics that represent the time period. The Darlings represent the way Barrie saw the Victorian Era. We see this through the characterization of Mr. Darling‚ Nana‚ and Mrs. Darling

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    Peter Pan Essay: The Idealization Of Motherhood J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan is a children’s story about a boy who never wants to grow up‚ but it has serious themes. Among these is the theme of the idealization of motherhood. Although the concept of the mother is idealized throughout Peter Pan‚ it is motherhood itself that prevents Peter Pan and others from maturing into responsible adulthood. The novel begins with a scene in the nursery of the Darling household‚ and it will end in the nursery too

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    The Tale of Two Tragic Lives When examining the level of tragedy a character has within a novel‚ readers often overlook the idea of individuality and its effects on tragedy itself. The amount of control a character has over their life plays an enormously important role in how tragic they are within the work of literature. Both Age of Iron‚ and Siddhartha‚ are novels that possess tragic characters due to the level of control they have over their lives‚ however the books’ respective authors each

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    Wendy Darling is the epitome of early 1900’s female stereotypes. As mentioned previously‚ the female stereotype is emotional‚ needy and spoiled. In the beginning of the novel‚ Wendy’s father‚ Mr.Darling‚ wishes that he and his wife could get rid of Wendy as she is too expensive for them to raise. They only way Wendy is able to leave her home is by Peter Pan taking her away to Neverland. Wendy Darling exemplifies the stereotypical women by Peter Pan saving her. Similarly‚ in the fairy tale Cinderella

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    Introduction: In the 1911 novella Peter and Wendy‚ its author‚ James Matthew Barrie narrates the story of a boy who does not want to grow up and the adventures involving him‚ the Darling children‚ dreadful pirates‚ unconventional “redskins”‚ fairies and mermaids. On the very first line of his famous novel‚ Barrie sentenced: “All children‚ except one‚ grow up” . More than a hundred years after these words were written‚ we can say that Barrie could not be more right. Peter Pan‚ or the boy who wouldn’t

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    The Novel in Africa

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    THE NOVEL IN AFRICA John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist‚ novelist ‚ linguist‚ literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities. This lecture is a fictionalized creation of J.M .Coetzee‚ which upholds his belief that‚ “…a true sense in which writing is dialogic; a matter of awakening counter voices in

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    the alternate ending.

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    The alternate ending What if belle fell for gaston and care not for the beast? or the princess and the frog never kissed? will cinderella still be recognized by her prince? if in the palace ball‚ she’s not in. what if rapunzel never grew her hair? will her prince be able to reach her lair? and if shadow never left peter pan’s side‚ then peter and wendy’s roads wouldn’t collide. what if aurora never shed her blood? having no one to wake‚ her prince will be sad. and what if

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    Neverland Research Paper

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    Rocco Caivano Caivano1 Mrs. Hayes British Literature Period 8 8 April 2013 Neverland Far away from any other man‚ woman‚ or child lies a quite and suddle place where I can be myself and not worry about society or many of the worlds problems. In the clouds above the earth is where you can find my neverland. Sitting in the comfortable fluff remising on my life not worrying about anything. From the cloud I can look down upon mankind and watch the kindness and the horrors of

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    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

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