1. Didactic Fiction in Alcott's Little Women
I will argue why, and discuss how, Little Women and Peter Pan fall into this category of educating their respective readers. ... Peter Pan focuses primarily on children growing into adults. ... When Barrie teaches his readers about childhood, he does so through the character of Peter Pan, who "symbolizes the child's reluctance to be absorbed into adult life- (Jan, 68). And so because Peter Pan is afraid to confront reality, he constructs for himself a parallel, upside-down world to which he can fly to in comfort. ... The same can be said of Peter Pan, whose author sought to expound hi...
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