The Ending of Tiger Lily

I finished the book tonight and I am quite infuriated. I held off reading the last few pages after dinner because I was already near to tears, and I saw some of the letter Peter Pan sent Tiger Lily. I believe you cannot fall 'out' of love with someone, you either always love at least some of someone or never at all.

Tiger Lily promised Peter she'd leave her tribe to be with him and the lost boys, but suddenly Tik Tok becomes sick. Phillip, the Englander who Tiger Lily tried to save came back and started telling stories. He told Tik Tok he would never be accepted into heaven for wearing dresses, Tik Tok eventually cuts his hair and becomes as normal as he could. Tiger Lily is so angry when she finds this, she sets up birds to infest the homes of the Englanders on Neverland as if the God's were back. Tiger Lily had forgotten temporarily about Peter, so she never went to leave with him. Her mind was infested on Tik Tok. When she finally does get a chance to get away, she goes to Peter and the boys where she sees a new girl.

Wendy. They called her Windy bird because she was in a tree like a bird when the boys found her. The group was so invested into this new girl they hardly paid attention to Tiger Lily. Eventually, Peter and Tiger Lily confront each other, but it is also near too late. Tiger Lily formed an alliance with the pirates. She planned on killing Wendy and Peter. At this point, my heart was breaking. Tiger Lily was abandoned by Peter Pan when she needed him the most. Her father had died, she has to get married and Peter belongs to someone else now. Now, she does go back for the couple after realizing she is in the wrong for thinking such thoughts. She goes to save Peter and Wendy from the water, but the mermaids try to drown Tiger Lily. She gets away, as do Peter and Wendy.

When Tiger Lily leaves, Smee, the pirate who wished to kill Tiger Lily catches her. But, bit by bit the true Tiger Lily is coming back. She gets loose from the pirate and goes safely home when he falls into the crocodiles' mouths.

This post is getting longer and longer, so I will try to shorten this up a little bit. Peter is leaving for England with Wendy, where they do get married. But Tiger Lily goes to see him first where he says,"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough." Tiger Lily didn't understand how you could only love a part of something, when Peter seemed to love all of her. Towards the end of the book, Tinker Bell goes to England where she sees Peter. He has aged, it's 50 years later and he has gray hair. When she returns to Neverland, Pine Sap and Tiger Lily are to get married and Tinker Bell finds a letter from Peter. He explains int he letter that it wasn't he loved part of Tiger Lily but that he was afraid she was braver than him, that he wondered if she could ever love more than some of him.

This was a great book, and I certainly do recommend Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson to any girl, or even boy. I hope anyone who reads it enjoys it as much as I did.

Tinker Bell

Within reading this past week, I've thought quite a lot about Tinker Bell lately. She is the narrator of this story but I haven't thought about her as much as Peter Pan or Tuger Lily or even the Giant. Tinker bell mentions Peter Pan noticing her, calling her cute or picking her up with his finger, any slightest bit of attention. Then Peter kisses Tiger Lily on the neck, and all Tinker Bell can talk about is how she thinks more of Tiger Lily than Peter Pan. But, I don't think that's true. Obviously, Peter is on Tink's mind or else she wouldn't bring him up when she speaks about Tiger Lily.

Then, Tiger Lily returns to the borrow of the Lost Boys. Peter sort of claims Tiger Lily when she holds her hand on Peters fourhead and he hugs her. He says, "Were together, right? You are with me. You'll come back again now, for sure, right?" Tiger Lily didn't really think twice about her marriage with the Giant that was approaching even more. They were sort of boyfriend-girlfriend, Tiger Lily would visit every day after evening. One day Peter invites Tiger Lily to go see the ancient people of Neverland. It's a three day journey and extremly awkward. But within the camping during night, Peter notices Tinker Bell again and names her Tinker Bell. "Our little Tink," he said.

Another night when the lost boys and Tiger Lily were swimming, Tinker Bell was careful to not get her wings wet. When a faeries wings get wet, they are just as good dead. Peter scooped Tinker Bell into his hands before a beast emerged from the water and ate a mermaid. Startled, he had dropped her. Tink fell into the water. Faeries in Neverland communicate by flapping their wings, but she can't do so with them drinched. She sees this as her last moment alive while everyone is swimming to shore, but then Tiger Lily turns. Tiger Lily comes back and reaches Tinker Bell, careful to dry her off. 

Tinker Bell has been noticced. Even though she didn't think Tiger Lily had, or anyone really, Tiger Lily knew all along, and Peter Pan did too.

Tiger Lily, September 11

I am about halfway into the book, Tiger Lily. So far it's really good. Since my last post, some exciting things have happened. The last I read before this week was the letter Peter Pan had left Tiger Lily to find him. She contemplated doing so, but decided she would to retrieve her necklace the Englander had gave her that Pan took. She finds the hideout is underground, where all the Lost Boys are asleep when she arrives. Eventually, they awake, give Tiger Lily a tour, and ask her to come back again. The boys are extremely rude. They'd constantly spoke their thoughts about Tiger Lily. If she was a girl, if she was pretty or ugly, how she acted. When she leaves, Pan walks her out and decides they should be friends. Tiger Lily accepts the offer but says she will not come back.
But when Tiger Lily returns to the village, she encounters more trouble than she'd ever expected. The citizens had announced Tiger Lily cursed a second time when Aunt Fire burns herself alive. Tiger Lily, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with Aunt Fires death, but people will have their suspicions. Then, near a week after the death Tiger Lily returns to eating with the other girls of the village for dinner with two feathers in her hair instead of one.
Three days after the village buried Aunt Fire, Tiger Lily returned to the Lost Boys. They weren't home when she got there, so she tracked them. They were on the beach throwing a party for what they think is Tootles' birthday. Tiger Lily dances with them and Peter Pan.
When she wakes up in her bed the next morning, Aunt Fire's wedding bracelets were left to her. This symbolized that the wedding was still on. Tiger Lily, by tradition had to wear the bracelets and go into town to show everyone the news.

Tiger Lily

The best thing about my book, Tiger Lily is how independent Tiger Lily actually is. Tiger Lily survived Pan's kidnapping of her. She got her hands loose from being tied, and knocked Pan unconscious to get away. Aunt Fire is still bossing Tiger Lilly around, and from where I recently stopped reading in the book, Tiger Lily is called to pop a boil on the Giant but when she returns to her bed, there's a note from Pan. It was a map that had said "Find us."
 Tinker Bell follows the pirates instead of Tiger Lily after the attack. Past the forest, Tinker Bell comes across the murderer. Reginald Smee. He killed because he had a heart, just the opposite of what anyone would think. Smee would suck up to be the captain Hook's favorite, which, in fact he was. Hook would get drunk and go outside to speak with Smee. There, he confessed how he lost his hand. It went around Neverland that his hand got chopped in a fight, thrown into the ocean and in an alligators mouth. But Hook told the real story. Hook worked on shoes to pay for school, back in England. His job was to insert the sole to be cut in the correct shape, but he had fallen asleep and his arm went in instead of the leather sole.
 Tink also noticed how Tiger Lily affected Smee, though Hook told him to keep his hands off due to their truce with the Sky Eaters. But Smee was intrigued by Tiger Lily's braveness and strength.
   I'm predicting she will become more acquainted with Pan, and he will lead her to the pirates where they will fight. Smee will have a chance to kill Tiger Lily, but I don't think he will be able to carry out his death wish.