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Essay Instructions: This is an Essay and a Research Paper.
Create an analysis of a selected piece of literature, using a specific theoretical or analytical approach, and including secondary resource information.
You must write on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (either book)
The research essay must be at least 2500 words.
Works cited page must include:
3 scholarly articles from library databases (one must be at least 8 pages long)
2 books from the general library collection (not including the novel)
1 book from the library reference collection.
Use MLA format
Do not include dictionaries and encyclopedias as resources.
Must quote from your primary source and at least 3 secondary sources.
This is an essay and research paper of what the authors message is not yours.

Essay Instructions: a paper that shows mastery of methodologies. there must be 3 scholarly sources, 2 general library book sources. a minimum of 6 paragraphs and 1 quote per paragraph would be excellent. topic of paper is to apply methodologies to J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" in order to find an underlying meaning, and support that with the sources. No encyclopedia's.

Essay Instructions: ‘By insisting so loudly on the innocence, purity and asexuality of the child, we have created a subversive echo: experience, corruption, exoticism.’ (James Kincaid)

With reference to Kincaid’s statement, examine the cultural significance of the notion of childhood ‘innocence’, with reference to relevant textual examples found in "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and J.M.Barrie's "Peter Pan".

Essay Instructions: 4 Pages of analysis and critical commentary on the character Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie's Play "Peter Pan, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" compared to the same character Peter Pan in "The Little White Bird".
The character of Peter Pan 1st appears in "The Little White Bird". Compare the Character Peter Pan in both stories? How is he the same and different?

The major theme in Peter Pan is innocence of childhood and responsibilty of adulthood, "all children but one grow up". Why is Peter Pan clinging to childish fantasy? Is the character Peter Pan really JM Barrie a man that never really grew up or one of the Llewelyn Davies boys?

Include in paper the time period - Edwardian. What was going on during the time these two stories were written. Social constraints of late Victorian middle class domestic reality contrasted with Neverland, a world where morality is ambivalent.

Then Summary.