Wendy's Change In The Book 'Peter Pan'

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PETER PAN, Wendy Darling, Character Analysis
Change is all around us, some changes can be avoided but many are inevitable. Wendy Darling under goes many changes throughout the book “Peter Pan”. The major one being growing up which many forces caused this. A force that caused Wendy to grow up is time and/or (human) nature. She displayed this when she said ““I am old. I am ever so much more than twenty. I grew up long ago.”” Peter says ““you promised not to!”” Wendy says ““I couldn’t help it.”” (Barrie 167 chapter 17).Another place where this was shown was on page 79 when it says “she was a young mother” (Barrie 79 chapter 8) she was not really a mother it was only her instinct telling her to act grown up like a mother.
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