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| - In Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, the titular boy flies in through the window of the bedroom that the girl Wendy Darling shares with her younger brothers John and Michael one evening. After having blown fairy dust on them, Peter Pan teaches the three Darling children to fly. Since the children's parents are not at home that evening and Nana, the Newfoundland dog who acts as their nanny, has been banished to the yard, there is nobody to prevent the children from flying away with Peter Pan to his home on the distant island of Never Never Land. In Never Never Land, Wendy acts as mother to Peter Pan, the other boys who live with him (unclaimed children who fell out of their baby carriages and who are known as the Lost Boys) and her own brothers John and Michael. Never Never Land i
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| - In Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, the titular boy flies in through the window of the bedroom that the girl Wendy Darling shares with her younger brothers John and Michael one evening. After having blown fairy dust on them, Peter Pan teaches the three Darling children to fly. Since the children's parents are not at home that evening and Nana, the Newfoundland dog who acts as their nanny, has been banished to the yard, there is nobody to prevent the children from flying away with Peter Pan to his home on the distant island of Never Never Land. In Never Never Land, Wendy acts as mother to Peter Pan, the other boys who live with him (unclaimed children who fell out of their baby carriages and who are known as the Lost Boys) and her own brothers John and Michael. Never Never Land is also home to fairies, beautiful but dangerous mermaids, a tribe of Native Americans, wild animals and a pirate crew led by Peter Pan's sworn enemy the fearsome Captain Hook. In spite of its dangers, Wendy, John and Michael live happily in Never Never Land for some time. When Peter Pan leads them to believe that their parents might have given them up for dead, the Darling children decide to return home at once. Wendy having told them that her parents would adopt them, the Lost Boys decide to leave Never Never Land with her. Peter Pan chooses to stay behind when the other children leave. The other boys and Wendy are then captured by the pirates. Having been alerted to what has happened by the fairy Tinker Bell, Peter Pan sets off to rescue the other children. Hook is defeated and all the pirates are killed. All the children then fly back to the Darlings' London home. The Lost Boys are adopted. Mrs. Darling offers to adopt Peter Pan too. He refuses and says that he is returning to Never Never Land so that he can stay a little boy forever. Wendy suddenly wants to go back to Never Never Land too. Her mother will not let her go back there permanently but agrees to let Wendy go back there once a year to help Peter Pan with spring cleaning. The final scene of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up takes place one year later when Wendy goes back to Never Never Land to help Peter with spring cleaning. Peter is unchanged but Wendy is already showing signs of growing up. She is aware of this and does not expect to continue going back to Never Never Land much longer. In When Wendy Grew Up - An Afterthought, it is revealed that Wendy only returned to Never Never Land to help Peter Pan with spring cleaning one more time. After that, she does not see the boy again for many years. Wendy grows up, marries and has a daughter of her own named Jane. Jane loves to hear stories about Peter Pan and about her mother's time in Never Never Land. After Jane goes to sleep one evening, Peter Pan flies into her darkened bedroom where the adult Wendy is sitting. Peter Pan finds it very hard to accept that Wendy has grown up and that the child sleeping in the room is her daughter. When Jane wakes up, however, the two children soon become good friends. J.M. Barrie adapted When Wendy Grew Up - An Afterthought into the final chapter of his novel Peter and Wendy, which was first published in 1911.
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