Neverland

• found in the minds of children
• an island
• family resemblance
• compact enough adventures are never far
• second to the right, and straight on till morning
• many more suns and moons than Mainland - time difficult to track (find crocodile)
• Home Under the Ground - Peter & Lost Boys residence
• Little House - Wendy's house
• Jolly Roger - pirates brig
• Mermaids' Lagoon & Marooners' Rock

inhabitants

• fairies - Tinker Bell - production and possession of fairy dust (enables flight; Peter was taught by birds)
• birds - entertainment, instruction, limited guidance; Never bird
• Lost Boys - Tootles, Nibs, Slightly, Curly, the Twins - boys who fell out of prams when nurse is not looking and if not claimed by humans within seven days, collected by fairies and flown to Neverland; not permitted to fly; at war with pirates
  • Peter Pan - puer aeternus; beautiful boy with beautiful smile clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that flow from trees; based on Barrie's brother David, who died the day before his 14th birthday; exaggerated boastful & careless; selfishness of childhood; forget-ful, self-centered, devil-may-care attitude (to die will be an awfully bug adventure); can fly, imagine things into existence, able to sense danger; Pan
• pirates - Captain James Hook - off-shore; revenge on Peter for cutting of his right hand in battle and feeding it to the crocodile
  • Mr. Smee (bo'sun); Gentleman Starkey; Bill Jukes (tattooes); Cecco (handsome Italian); Cookson; Noodler (hands backwards); Morgan's Skylights; Black Pirate (gigantic); Alf Mason; Robert Mullins; George Scourie; Chas. Turley; Foggerty (Alsatian); Whibbles (eye patch)
• "redskins" or Piccaninny tribe - Great Big Little Panther, Tiger Lily; at war with pirates; games with Lost Boys
• mermaids - malevolent, hedonistic, frivolous; vain & irritating (Wendy); live in coral caves underneath the waves; mermaids' haunting transformation at the turn of the moon while uttering strange wailing cries at night
• animals/beasts - bears, tigers, lions, wolves, flamingoes, crocodiles - beasts > Piccaninny > Pirates > L.B. > beasts
• small old lady with a hooked nose
• gnomes - tailors
• princes with six elder brothers
• the Darling family
  • Wendy Moira Angela Darling
  • John Napoleon Darling
  • Michael Nicholas Darling
  • George & Mary - parents
  • Nana - Newfoundland nurse
  • Jane Darling (Margaret)
  • Liza - maid