Hook And Mr Darling Character Analysis

Nevertheless, Peter, who represents “youth and joy” himself, does not have many worries and seems to be the only character that truly enjoys life. He has character traits that people seem to lose during growing up, namely “cockiness” and a great self-confidence. His bravery and courage manifested in the sense that he believes that everything is possible and he is capable of doing everything. It is ambiguous that such, at first sight, bad character traits are “his most fascinating qualities”. However, this could be rationally explained by contrasting the comparison of Peter and adult males in the story. Unlike the easy life of Peter, who does not worry about anything, the life of Hook and Mr. Darling is filled with insecurity as we as both

However, there is another side of the book that emphasizes problems of always remaining a child. For instance, grown-up Wendy’s description of children as “gay and innocent and heartless” is indeed accurate because when they are having fun, they completely forget about the mother, but then they come back and expect that she will always wait for them. That was the case with Peter when he thought that his “mother would always keep the window open for” him but, apparently, after he “stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and flew back” the window was closed. Thus, after Peter felt that he had been rejected by mother, he decided that mother figure is “over-rated”, forbade telling stories about real mothers in Neverland and even tried to prevent Wendy from returning home, closing the window in the hope that “she will think her mother has barred her out” and then return to Neverland. Still, I don’t think that closed window symbolized actual rejection of the child; rather it is more like a push into the real world. In the story mother’s love also shown through the case of Never Bird, who cares about children but, as everyone knows, in order to child grow up, birds should push them out of the nest. So, it is an essential step that leads to adulthood with which Peter could not cope and therefore decided to never grow up. Anyway, the dismal point here is that with all joyfulness, and fun, and