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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens	comment	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a collection of chapters first published in The Little White Bird that concerns the character Peter Pan. In this story, it's revealed that all children begin life as birds until Solomon Caw sends them out to expecting mothers, where they become human children. Peter, an infant of seven days old, is still young enough that he's still half-bird and therefore has complete faith in his ability to fly. He escapes his home by flying out through the open window and arrives in Kensington Gardens. Upon realizing that he really is no longer a bird, he loses the ability to fly because once you doubt your ability to fly, you can no longer do it.This book is a sort of predecessor to Peter Pan, though there are some differences. The first, obviously, is that Peter lives in Kensington Gardens, not Never Land. Secondly, he's perpetually a baby, not a child as most of us know him to be.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_486f44a1	type	Swans A-Swimming
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_486f44a1	comment	Swans A-Swimming: There are swans in the garden.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The book ends on the note that Peter occasionally finds the bodies of children who were stuck in the gardens after Lock-out Time and thus died of exposure. He buries them in the gardens... but what makes it even more of a downer is, according to the narrator, Peter apparently never makes sure if the children he finds are actually dead before he buries them. So, if they aren't dead when he finds them, they definitely are when he buries them.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: This is Peter's first appearance in fiction, and it's probably not the Peter Pan you're familiar with. There's no Captain Hook, no Lost Boys, no Darling children, no Never Land... Instead, Peter is a perpetual baby who lives in Kensington Gardens, rides a goat and a sailboat, and falls in love with a human girl. The folkloric elements of The Fair Folk play a much more important role throughout.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_5be7bd04	type	Raised by Wolves
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_5be7bd04	comment	Raised by Wolves: Or birds, in this case.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_699a6c87	type	Masquerade Enforcer
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_699a6c87	comment	Masquerade Enforcer: Pilkington a schoolmaster with a cane who makes Children go to school. He is described as a shade with a large cane which is described as a hook. The fear of Pilkington is what forces fairies to hide by day. Many consider Pilkington is a precursor of the more famous Captain Hook.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_6add177d	type	Puff of Logic
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_6add177d	comment	Puff of Logic: As soon as you doubt your ability to fly, you won't be able to do it anymore. Oh snap.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_77aedc5c	type	Horse of a Different Color
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_77aedc5c	comment	Horse of a Different Color: The imaginary-goat-turned-real-by-the-fairies.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: The fairies. They're tiny, but really shouldn't be messed with.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_8f7b77d3	type	Cargo Ship
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_8f7b77d3	comment	Cargo Ship: Peter asks Maimie to marry him because her furry coat reminds him of a bird's nest. invoked
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Peter is described as half-human and half-bird, or a "Betwixt-and-Between."
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_af921409	type	Accidental Marriage
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_af921409	comment	Accidental Marriage: It's explained that fairies get married simply by leaping into each other's arms (although a clergyman must be present). Later in the story, a character named Mamie Mannering leaps into Peter's arms, and the narrator points out that this "was a sort of fairy wedding".
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: When mentioning that Peter occasionally finds and buries the bodies of children who died in the gardens, the narrator admits that he's not 100% confident that Peter always makes sure they're actually dead before burying them.
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