Chapter 4
Hook's introduction on the pirate ship — 'cadaverous and blackavised,' with eyes that turn red when he plunges his hook.
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From Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The villainous pirate captain, an Eton-educated gentleman obsessed with 'good form' and haunted by the crocodile that ate his hand.
Chapter 14
Hook's anguished soliloquy about 'good form' — his obsession with being a gentleman pirate, revealing the surprising depth of Barrie's villain.
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Hook's death: he leaps into the crocodile's jaws but only after checking that Peter kicked rather than stabbed him — Peter lacked 'good form,' which is Hook's final triumph.
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