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Read & copy
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
Meaning & context
Peter turns his immediate fear of death into the language of adventure, revealing the bravado and imaginative self-conception that define the character.
Source details
Peter Pan / Peter and Wendy, Project Gutenberg #16. Peter says the line while stranded on Marooners’ Rock as the water rises; it is fictional character speech in a perilous scene, not advice about death or risk-taking.