![]() ![]() Rewrite: Toad gets his just deserts and does 20 years in Dartmoor the stoats get to keep the house a modern collectivist world where we all keep to the speed limit is ushered in. ![]() With the help of some impenetrable plotting, he escapes and the forces of counter-revolution reclaim the house. But this happy state of affairs doesn't last long. Eventually, he gets a long sentence for theft and driving without due care and attention, and his house is turned into a workers' co-operative. Reactionary story about a rich egotist who lives in a grand house and spends all his time crashing cars and causing mayhem. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame ![]() The evil Captain Hook does not escape the clutches of the ticking crocodile, who swallows fey Tinkerbell and the annoying Mrs Darling for good measure. Rewrite: After numerous adventures, Peter and Wendy settle down to a life of domestic tranquillity in Notting Hill the Lost Boys work hard at school and make it to Cambridge, where they study law and win rowing blues. Leaving aside all the episodes that will terrify small children – ticking crocodiles, vicious pirates, poisonings, kidnappings, near-death experiences – the real problem with this play that was turned into a novel is Peter: why won't he grow up? Why can't he reciprocate Wendy's affection? Is he gay or just confused? The ending, when Peter deserts the lovelorn Wendy, is heart-wrenching Barrie's later addendum, with its suggestion that Peter repeats his search for a "mother" in each generation of the Darling family, is deeply disturbing. Rewrite: Joins Ugly Duckling Support Group campaigns successfully for physically challenged ducks' rights is ultimately accepted for what he is rather than conforming to meaningless notions of grace and beauty. ![]() He just about survives a wretched, lonely winter and is willing his own death when he is saved by a sudden (and wholly unconvincing) transmogrification into a swan. The only birds who take him in are a group of wild ducks, who are then promptly slaughtered. Offensive tale of persecution and body fascism in which an ugly-looking bird is given a hard time wherever he goes. ![]()
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