Lost Girl Exercises 110 and 111 Notes

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 - I imagine play is set in modern day

- a twisted story involving Peter Pan following the life of Wendy Darling several years after returning from Neverland

- Wendy has grown up, but she is still a child at heart, she seems to wish she never left Neverland 

- she is very sad and depressed even after so many years - the real world was kind of life a shock to her 

- her story is famous because she brought back the lost boys (story of Peter Pan taking kids posed as a kidnapping to the rest of the world) 

- Wendy is stubborn, sad, confused, stuck in place

- she is still determined, she still has her heart set on Peter 

- the playwright wanted to show how complex a single story can really be and what it is like to be stuck in place, maybe not wanting to grow up

- thinking you want one thing and realizing you actually want another, but at the same time you know deep down you made the right decision

- she seems constantly dazed and in another world in her head, I imagine her staring off into space and constantly lost in memory (a shell of what she appeared to be in the story of peter pan) despite the fact that she says she only allows herself eight minutes a day to think about him

- Wendy is now a young adult living in her childhood bedroom, constantly sad and crying 

- she is hung up on her past when she went to Neverland with Peter 

- her father and brothers left (they didn't want all the outside media attention) 

- Wendy learns that there were other girls who went to Neverland with peter too 

- main influence: neverland 

- not much else in her life is shown - she rarely leaves the house, rarely leaves her room 

- assuming she left neverland because she knew that is was not real life and she didn't want to lose her memories, but when she gets back all she can think about is memories and she seems to not enjoy real life at all 


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