Alcott "saw life whole, saw illness and death, sorrow and trouble and poverty as parts of life to be met with normality and courage- (Meigs, 351). ... Perhaps this is another function of didactic fiction that Barrie is relaying to his readers: that growing up, and learning, oftentimes involves distinguishing between what is moral, and what is not, and that parents are usually the ones to provide us with the answer to such a question "yet another trademark of children's literature within the overall Literary Canon. ...

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