Some stories are so powerful that they become myths.
Peter Pan, whose horned cap, rural attire, . . . It is a child's fantasy of war where the evil Captain Hook and his pirates are defeated by Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. Who Would Not Grow Up was a tremendous success when it first premiered in 1904. Barrie is one of the writers from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century who transformed children's literature with their stories of childhood fantasy. Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and Barrie's Peter Pan were both about the hedonistic lives of little boys.