104. What is your favorite quotation and why? (Princeton)
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
I cannot remember how many time I read, watched, or was told the story of Peter Pan as a child. Looking back at my childhood, the information about Peter Pan came in stages.
The first stage was the basic outline of the story: the children's parents go out for the evening, the children are visited by a stranger, they are taken to a distant land, they can fly! The distant land is filled with adventure. There are crocodiles, mermaids, more cool children like the stranger, natives, and an evil man. In the end the good people won, but then they had to leave and go back to their ordinary lives.
The second stage was putting names to the characters, and grasping the message of the story. Peter Pan, Wendy, Tiger Lily, Tinker Bell, and the cruel Captain Hook. I think the first major Peter Pan movie I watched was "Hook". This movie greatly helped establish a bigger picture of the story in my little mind. I began to take notice of the love, friendship, hardship, and fear that made this story so iconic.
As I grew-up, Peter Pan was always there beside me. I watched more movies based on the book. And then I watched "Finding Neverland". The book was no longer just another fairy tale. The movie gave the book new life in my eyes. I was touched by the life story of J.M Barrie, and I realized that Peter Pan was not a fantasy book written for money, it was a book with feelings behind it.
I never really understood the meaning of the quote “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” But for some reason it has stuck to me, I just never seem to be able to forget it.
The quote gives this world a sprinkle of the magic that makes Peter Pan such a wonderful story. On a dark and gloomy day when you loose confidence in yourself, this quote manages to bring the sun back into your life. Faith and trust is something that each human can have, pixie dust on the other hand might be a little hard to come by. But this is all besides the point, I believe this quote is so powerful because it shines light on the positive aspects of life. Faith, trust, and pixie dust have a happy connotations, they empower you.
The hidden meaning in the quote may still be hidden from me, but I don't care. This quote makes me feel like I can be superman if I want to. It brings up happy memories, and makes me think a magical place, of Neverland. It takes me back to the first time I heard about Peter Pan.
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“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
I cannot remember how many time I read, watched, or was told the story of Peter Pan as a child. Looking back at my childhood, the information about Peter Pan came in stages.
The first stage was the basic outline of the story: the children's parents go out for the evening, the children are visited by a stranger, they are taken to a distant land, they can fly! The distant land is filled with adventure. There are crocodiles, mermaids, more cool children like the stranger, natives, and an evil man. In the end the good people won, but then they had to leave and go back to their ordinary lives.
The second stage was putting names to the characters, and grasping the message of the story. Peter Pan, Wendy, Tiger Lily, Tinker Bell, and the cruel Captain Hook. I think the first major Peter Pan movie I watched was "Hook". This movie greatly helped establish a bigger picture of the story in my little mind. I began to take notice of the love, friendship, hardship, and fear that made this story so iconic.
As I grew-up, Peter Pan was always there beside me. I watched more movies based on the book. And then I watched "Finding Neverland". The book was no longer just another fairy tale. The movie gave the book new life in my eyes. I was touched by the life story of J.M Barrie, and I realized that Peter Pan was not a fantasy book written for money, it was a book with feelings behind it.
I never really understood the meaning of the quote “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” But for some reason it has stuck to me, I just never seem to be able to forget it.
The quote gives this world a sprinkle of the magic that makes Peter Pan such a wonderful story. On a dark and gloomy day when you loose confidence in yourself, this quote manages to bring the sun back into your life. Faith and trust is something that each human can have, pixie dust on the other hand might be a little hard to come by. But this is all besides the point, I believe this quote is so powerful because it shines light on the positive aspects of life. Faith, trust, and pixie dust have a happy connotations, they empower you.
The hidden meaning in the quote may still be hidden from me, but I don't care. This quote makes me feel like I can be superman if I want to. It brings up happy memories, and makes me think a magical place, of Neverland. It takes me back to the first time I heard about Peter Pan.
Word count: 482
I actually like the quote and its connection to your childhood, but there is too much time spent on rehashing the story and the movies. Remember, this is about you and how you interpret things, not just about your memories of the quote. I'd spend more time revealing you. I'd spend more time bringing out the meaning of the quote through your eyes and what those words mean to you now at this point in your life. Would need a lot of work still.
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