... , it teaches lessons "about what it means to be human, to grow up, to suffer and learn- (assignment handout, 11/3/03). I will argue why, and discuss how, Little Women and Peter Pan fall into this category of educating their respective readers. Little Women is first and foremost a girl's novel "it is written by a girl, about girls, and for girls. It has ... to society's standards. Nevertheless, Little Women is a story about teaching and educating young women about maturation, and Alcott effectively uses her characters to relay her messages across to her readers. Peter Pan focuses primaril...

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... big things for her daughter, but that leads to very high expectations. The first idea is for Ni Kan to become a Chinese Shirley Temple. Ni Kan ends up looking like Peter Pan. When beauty does not work out the next thing was to try intelligence. Ni kan's mother would test Ni Kan with trivia questions every night after dinner. When Ni kan ... ...

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... I do not have to read it over and over again. I never really enjoyed reading, and have few memories of being read to. My earliest memory is of my Dad reading Peter Pan and The Little Tug Boat That Could (I think that was the name) as a little kid. I also remember my Dad reading the book Where the Wild Things Are. Those were the ... ...

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... the parental breakup. One of the story's best moments shows this meaning of a hurtful childhood by divorce. The mother is reading the daughter, Gertie, a bedtime story. Significantly, the story is Peter Pan, which deals with the struggle of growing up. The camera then shows the boys, Elliot and his brother, reliving old memories of their father. ET is watching the mother/daughter ... ...

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... The Rye, Holden's Road of Trials takes from Pencey Prep to New York City. Holden deals with his own mental hallucinations, cognative disotience, and his desire to stay innocence, his Peter Pan complex. The author does not end the novel with a happy ending, from analyzing Holden's experiences we can assume he emerges a more complete and understanding person once he came to the ... ...

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... a disaster. The student at the beauty school had messed her hair up so much that she had to cut her hair short and people teased her because she looked like Peter Pan. Next she wanted her daughter to be remembered as an amazing child from the book "Ripley's Believe It or Not". Than it was the piano lessons, her mother exchanged cleaning ... ...

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