In both the play and the novel, Peter
often visits the “real world” of London to listen in on bedtime stories
told by Mary Darling to her children. One night, Peter is spotted, and
while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. On returning to claim his
shadow, he wakes Mary’s daughter, Wendy Darling. When Wendy succeeds in
re-attaching his shadow to him, Peter takes a fancy to her and invites
her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang of Lost Boys, the children
who are lost in Kensington Gardens. Wendy agrees, and her brothers John
and Michael go along. The dangerous and magical flight to Neverland is
followed by many adventures. The children are blown out of air by a
cannon and Wendy is nearly killed. Peter and the Lost Boys build a
little house for Wendy to live in while she recuperates. Soon John and
Michael adopt the ways of the Lost Boys, while Wendy plays house in
mothering them, all the while invoking the jealousy of Tinker Bell,
Tiger Lily, and the mermaids. Peter is often oblivious, concentrating on
real and make-believe adventures and on taunting the pirate Captain
Hook. Later follows adventures at Mermaids’ Lagoon, the near deaths of
Tinker Bell and Peter; a violent pirate/Indian massacre, and a climactic
confrontation with Peter’s nemesis, the pirate Captain Hook of the
pirate ship the Jolly Roger.
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