Question

"Very soon."

"I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things," he told her passionately. "I don't want to be a man. O
Wendy's mother, if I was to wake up and feel there was a beard!"

"Peter," said Wendy the comforter, "I should love you in a beard;" and Mrs. Darling stretched out her arms to
him, but he repulsed her. "Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man."

"But where are you going to live?"

"With Tink in the house we built for Wendy. The fairies are to put it high up among the treetops where they
sleep at nights."

"How lovely," cried Wendy so longingly that Mrs. Darling tightened her grip.

"I thought all the fairies were dead," Mrs. Darling said.

"There are always a lot of young ones," explained Wendy, who was now quite an authority, "because you see
when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are
always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones
are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are."

"I shall have such fun," said Peter, with one eye on Wendy.

"It will be rather lonely in the evening," she said, "sitting by the fire."

"I shall have Tink."

In one to two sentences, determine how Wendy's point of view changes as the dialogue continues.

Item 15

Answer 1

Wendy begins by comforting Peter and romanticizing him—saying she'd love him even with a beard—and then shifts into an authoritative, imaginative storyteller as she explains how fairies are born. By the end her tone turns wistful and vulnerable when she admits it will be rather lonely sitting by the fire.