jm barrie
JM Barrie is a man in his 40’s who still has the imagination and innocence of a young boy. [1]
Barrie became world famous with his play and story about PETER PAN (1904), the boy who lived in Never Land, had a war with Captain Hook, and would not grow up. [2]
Like his immortal Peter Pan, Barrie never wanted to face the pain and unhappiness of the adult world. [3]
JM Barrie is a wonderful playwright who is the mastermind behind the story of Peter Pan. [1]
He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys. [4]
Wendy Darling with her brothers accompany Peter Pan to Never Land where he lives with the Lost Boys, protected by a tribe of Red Indians. [2]
At Dumfries he and his friends spent time in the garden of Moat Brae house, playing pirates ‘in a sort of Odyssey that was long afterwards to become the play of Peter Pan’. [4]
Jamie, as he was called, heard tales of pirates from his mother, who read her children adventure stories in the evenings. [2]
The English dramatist, who hid a barbed wit and slightly mocking view of life beneath often cloyingly sentimental surfaces, was first represented in America by The Professor’s Love Story (1892) and Walker, London (1894). [3]
One day when Barrie visits the family, he is surprised to find that Peter has written a play and uses his brothers to act out the characters. [...] Barrie shows them through the play that they can visit Neverland any time they want, as long as they never lose their imagination and innocence, just like Barrie. [...] When Peter sees the play in the theatre, he is captivated and realizes that they are the boys in the play and Barrie is Peter Pan in the way that he helped them to forget their worries and fly away to Neverland. [1]
Even at his old age, Barrie could play enthusiastically Captain Hook and Peter Pan with the son of his secretary, Lady Cynthia Asquith. [2]
Barrie continues to visit the boys and come up with exciting new adventures for them all to go on, like a crew fighting pirates on a ship, and each time trying new ways for Peter to join in and use his imagination. [1]
Birkin, Andrew., J. M. Barrie & the lost boys: the love story that gave birth to Peter Pan, New York: C. N. Potter: distributed by Crown Publishers, 1979. [3]
Sources:
[1] www.uwm.edu/People/stanisl3/project3.htm
[2] Books and Writers: J.M. Barrie
[3] J. M. Barrie: Biography from Answers.com
[4] J.M. Barrie - Wikipedia