In Peter Pan literature, the writer uses different techniques to deliver his message to the writer. These techniques are:
- Narration.
- Description.
- Comparison and contrast.
- Persuasion.
Narration Technique
This is the technique which the writer has exhaustively used in writing Peter Pan.
The writer tells a story complete with characters that include Peter Pan, Wendy, John and Jane. The story presents us with a problem and takes us through attempt to solve it. There is a timeline and setting which include the Pirate ship and the nursery. This technique further stand when Wendy narrates bedtime story to her daughter Jane.
Description Technique
The writer has used this technique especially when he wants to clearly give a picture of a scene or a character. At the opening of chapter 16, the write describe how the boys had dressed, he say of the boys “ they all donned pirate clothes cut off at the knee, shaved smartly, and tumbled up, with the true nautical roll and hitching their trouser” in doing so, the writer bring a mental picture of the scene.
J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, when Wendy grew up chapter 16.
Comparison and contrast
The writer points out differences and similarities about his characters and thinks. A good example is when Peter whispers to Tink he says of Wendy’s mother “she is a pretty lady, but no so pretty as my mother. Her mouth is full of thimbles, but not so full as my mother’s was’
J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, when Wendy grew up chapter 16.
Another instance is when Michael is describing his father when they returned home, he say of his father “He is not so big as the pirate I killed”
J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, when Wendy grew up chapter 16.
Persuasion
There are instance where the writer the writer use persuasion technique, especially when one character is trying to change the other character point of view. A good example is when Wendy tries to change Mrs. Darling point of view in regards to death of fairies,
She say “There are always a lot of young one, because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and there are always new babies, there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the top of tress; and the mauve ones are not boys and the white ones are girl, and the blue one are just little sillies who are not sure what they are”
J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, when Wendy grew up chapter 17.
Language devices
Figurative
The writer describes things by comparing it with something else. Example is when the writer uses the word ‘goat’ when describing the feeling the boys had toward themselves for being away from the Island. He writes “before they had attended school a week they saw what goats they had been not to remain on the island”
J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, when Wendy grew up chapter 17.
Imagery
Imagery has been used to describe how big Wendy was in the eyes of Peter, the writer says “He gave a cry of pain; and when the tall beautiful creature…” these words give the leader a mental picture of how small Peter was compared to Jane.
J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, when Wendy grew up chapter 17.
Understatement
The writer uses Understatement when he describe Peter on his return to Wendy, it says “………and peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box….”
J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, when Wendy grew up chapter 17.
Hyperbole
The description given by the writer when Peter return to pick up Wendy describe Wendy as “……….tall beautiful creature…….” The reader is present with a huge giant.
J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, when Wendy grew up chapter 17.
Symbolism
The writer use color to describe fairies, during a conversation between Wendy and her mother “………..the mauve one are boy and the white ones are girls and the blues ones are just little sillies who…….” J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, when Wendy grew up chapter 17.
Reference
J. M. Barrie (2000) Peter Pan, Adamant Media Corporation publishers, United States.