In last chapter, we learn that Peter Pan comes back to Neverland with Wendy and her siblings. Now let’s have a look on chapter 5 – THE ISLAND COME TRUE.
When it was known to Neverland that Peter Pan in coming back, the entire island looked like it got a new life. In the absence of Peter Pan, things are usually quiet on the island. Every body was eagerly waiting for Peter Pan, especially lost boys because pirates were looking out for lost boys. This time there were only six lost boys on the island because the boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out. They are forbidden by Peter to look in the least like him, and they wear the skins of the bears slain by themselves, in which they are so round and furry that when they fall they roll. They have therefore become very sure-footed. The description of lost boys is as follow:
Tootles: Tootles was not least brave but unfortunate, but he was quite the humblest of the boys.
Nibs: Nibs is gay and debonair who cuts whistles out of the trees and dances ecstatically to his own tunes.
Slightly: Slightly is the most conceited of the boys. He thinks he remembers the days before he was lost, with their manners and customs, and this has given his nose an offensive tilt.
Curley: Curly is fourth; he is a pickle, [a person who gets in pickles-predicaments]
The Twins: Last come the Twins, who cannot be described because we should be sure to be describing the wrong one. Peter never quite knew what twins were, and his band were not allowed to know anything he did not know, so these two were always vague about themselves, and did their best to give satisfaction by keeping close together in an apologetic sort of way.
Tinker Bell is very jealous of Wendy, still she pretends to be Wendy’s friend. She takes advantage of conflict between pirates and Peter Pan and ordered lost boys to kill Wendy on the behalf of Peter Pan and said that doing so will please Peter Pan. So Tootles excitedly shot an arrow to Wendy and she fluttered to the ground with an arrow in her breast.
