Tink and Wendy by Kelly Ann Jacobson

Author:Kelly Ann Jacobson [Jacobson, Kelly Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Adaptations, Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Lgbtq
ISBN: 9781953103130
Google: KJw2zgEACAAJ
Publisher: Three Rooms Press
Published: 2021-10-14T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Godmother Anne’s Introduction to “Mothers”

Excerpt from Neverland: A History

THOSE CAREFUL READERS KEEPING SCORE MAY have noticed that the role of mother has featured heavily in many of my previous chapters. What, you may be wondering, is so special about a mother?

I have many theories about why this person—or persons, in the case of some of the subjects of this book—have become so important. Firstly, many of the people I’ve discussed either lost their mothers at a young age or never had a mother to begin with. Peter was abandoned, as were the Lost Boys; the Darlings’ mother was dead; Tink never had a mother to begin with. A rare case, Hope Bain actually had a mother, but for a time that mother, Mrs. Bain, fell short of the expectations her child had of her.

Still, my original question remains: What is so special about a mother? Why did these children, these motherless babies-turned-adolescents, retain such a strong yearning for someone they either never met or had lost permanently?

The answer, I believe, lies in the role the humans created for the women of their society. Take, as a counterexample, the Fairy Realm. Here, we are all expected to be feminine, and flirt, and flit; we are also, on the other hand, expected to play all parts to our growing empire. All of the guards are women. All of the craftspeople are women. The fairies who cook your breakfast are women, but so are the fairies who consume that breakfast and then go off to secure the border against an invading army.

In the Fairy Realm, women are ALL.

On Earth, however, women have traditionally played a much different role—one that has, in its description, the part of caretaker. Women are expected to become mothers; as mothers, they are to do the labor of the house—not just cook and clean, but check homework and monitor behavior and kiss bruises. Women are HALF of the parental unit, yet like an egg when cracked down the center, their part in the labor of the house is never an even split. Someone must get the yolk.

Take, for example, Wendy Darling. Only a few years older than John, she almost singlehandedly ran the Darling house until her untimely accident. The only person to help, for the brief period of time she stayed with them, was Tink.

Of course, Wendy had other motherly roles to play as well—but I’m getting ahead of myself.

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