![]() ![]() This idea could have resulted in a dull sort of polemical tract, but Jensen makes her twisted tale just as thrilling and captivating as the original - in a decidedly adult way. He can only be released by coming to terms with his feelings about death, domesticity, female sexuality, and male aggression. In this version, an adult is trapped in a child’s dream, which for him becomes an eternal nightmare. With Alias Hook, Lisa Jensen has created a past and a future for Pan’s grown-up nemesis, Captain Hook, that turns the story on its head. What about a story that shows how there is actually magic in growing up, rather than just in avoiding it? ![]() But for some readers, including me, there’s something unsatisfying about it. With its mishmash of confused feelings about death, domesticity, female sexuality, and male aggression, the tale of the boy who refuses to grow up retains its hold on our imaginations, no doubt because these remain areas that confound and perplex us. ![]() Within its technicolor Victorian exterior, Peter Pan surely embodies one of the most bizarre legends of childhood ever created. ![]()
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