Peter And Wendy Never Grow Up Quotes

Words: 632
Pages: 3
Open Document
Peter and Wendy: Never Grow Up

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” This quote explains a good way to look at staying young while still growing up. If you keep some of your childhood with you throughout your life you’ll still feel young while you have to do grown up things. In the book Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie Peter never wants to grow up and stay a child and have fun forever. “childhood has it’s own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.” ( Elkind 4). This quote talks about how important childhood is and seeing this quote you can maybe understand why Peter never wanted to grow up.
In Peter and Wendy, I argue that childhood is portrayed …show more content…
Darling wants to adopt him Peter asks Mrs. Darling a bunch of questions about what she would make him do if he lived there. Once he got all his answers he said “I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things,” he told her passionately. “I don’t want to be a man. O Wendy’s mother, if I was to wake up and feel there was a beard! Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man.” (Barrie 93). This shows more of how even when Peter had a loving family willing to adopt him and love him he still didn’t want to accept it and grow up and go to school and become a man like his lost boys and the Darling children would soon become. All the lost boys and Darling children eventually grow up and get jobs and have families. Peter comes back many years later expecting Wendy to still come do his spring cleaning and to have stayed the same age as when he met her. When he comes back Wendy says “I am old, Peter. I am ever so much more than twenty. I grew up long ago.” And Peter says “You promised not to!” ( Barrie 98-99). This shows how Peter is still naive and a child by believing that his friends wouldn’t grow up and just stay young with
Show More

Related Documents: Peter And Wendy Never Grow Up Quotes

Peter Pan Research Paper

think of when you hear the name Peter Pan? You probably think of a young boy dressed in a peculiar green outfit landing on your windowsill after flying across the starry night sky just to listen to your stories of him. You might also think of endless adventure on an escape to Neverland, fleeing from responsibility and never growing up, fighting pirates, and the magic of pixie dust and believing in everything your imagination could possibly think of. What about where Peter Pan originated from, how he…

Words 1083 - Pages 5

Toddler Pageants Essay

on-stage artificial and practiced personality, than all the other girls. Should little girls be rewarded for being prettier or richer than others? Not only does it teach the contestants that beauty and money can get you popularity, but it also sets them up for other issues down the line, such as, bulimia, anorexia, depression, the need to be perfect, and the need for attention. Toddler pageants are warping the mindset of our children, and therefore should be more regulated, and have an age restriction…

Words 3517 - Pages 15