wow, didn't think there'd be so many threads about this book. my question probably has been answered in one of the threads, but there's no indication of it in any of the thread's title.
so yeah, i started laughing at this book since the beginning just because of the stupid and ridiculous things there, but after a while, what with my personal experience of telling stories with inside jokes here and there, i got a feeling that barrie is having some fun as well while ostensibly telling a story to the children.
i'm politically ignorant and i'm unaware of the situation barrie was living in, but there are some things in the books that i just notice. perhaps someone else could elaborate?
- the red skins (obviously a reference to the indians) speak broken english. was barrie a sort of a racist or he was criticizing people with a superiority complex?
- captain james hook is said to have a different real name and people are supposed to know who he actually is (a teacher, it says). the only person i can think of whose name resembles hook is cook, but was cook a school teacher? (i'm also historically ignorant.)
- those two are the only ones i really notice. i've also glanced at a couple threads and saw that nana is supposed to be a newfoundland? what's that all about?