Peter Pan by J.M Barrie

Title: Peter Pan by J.M Barrie

Heading: Peter Breaks Through

Introduction: All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this.

Every first sentence:

• Of course they lived at 14, and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one.

• The way Mrs. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her.

• Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him.

• Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces.

• Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.

• For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they should be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed.

• Now don’t interrupt, “he would beg of her”

• I have one pound seventeen here, and two and six at the office.

• “Of course we can, George” she cried.

• Remember mumps, he warned her almost threateningly and off he went again.

• There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak.

• Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbors; so, of course, they had a nurse.

• No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly.

• He had his position in the city to consider.

• Nana also troubled him in another way.

• Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children’s minds.

• I don’t know whether you have ever seen a map of a person’s mind.

• Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal.

• Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawl, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed.

• Occasionally in her travels through her children’s minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter.

• Yes, he is rather cocky.

• But who is he, my pet?

• He is Peter Pan, you know, mother.

• At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies.

• Besides, she said to Wendy, he would be grown up by this time.

• Oh no, he isn’t grown up, Wendy assured her confidently and he is just my size.

• Mrs. Darling consulted

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