Chapter 3
Peter declares he ran away because he heard his parents discussing what he would be when he was a man: 'I don't want ever to be a man... I want always to be a little boy and to have fun.'
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From Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The novel's central theme — Peter as the eternal child who refuses adulthood, with the cost being love, memory, and human connection.
Chapter 17
Wendy grown up encounters Peter again; he cannot understand her tears or her adulthood — the tragedy of his eternal childhood crystallized.
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