They are giving grotesque animal like qualities. ... That they lack this intergration makes their potential to take their revenge from the world that has bread them all the more poignant. ... The scorn of patronising and ultimatley useless help offered by the missionaries almost gives the lower classes a common and shared perspective on the world around them, and ultimately unites them. ...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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