The next in line for the Neverland tales is Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell, as many know her, is Peter’s right hand pixie.
Tinker Bell (Peter Pan):
1. We all get jealous: Just don’t get carried away.
2. We need to fix our mistakes ourselves.
3. Protect those you care about.
4. Think of others before yourself.
5. Use your talents to help those who cannot help themselves.
Tinker Bell (Peter Pan 2: Return to Never Land):
1. When you change for the better, there’s no going back.
2. Forgiveness: To those who intentionally or unintentionally do harm unto you, and to yourself.
3. Help others find themselves.
At first glance I’m pretty sure that some are confused as to why I’ve added this character (since she is only a supporting role), and maybe why her new movies are not included. Please allow me to enlighten you as to why.
Her new movies teach lessons in their own right and way. And I will not discredit them in any way, shape, form, ect. I haven’t added them simply because I’m more familiar with her old roles and movies. If I was more acquainted with her new adventures then maybe I would add them. All together I wasn’t certain that I should, and I think it best to go with my gut.
The themes that I wish to address are built around the notions that Tinkerbell isn’t a character that deserves to be put up with the Disney heroines; and that she teaches lessons of jealousy and hate. Themes that I’m sure everyone is familiar with. I would like to politely disagree, with all intentions and purposes of offending no one. To me Tinkerbell is one of the best entities of forgiveness and personal change.
In the first movie, Tinkerbell starts off as jealous and spiteful towards Wendy. And to me this is easily explained in the context of Peter. Peter is the boy who never grows up, and, is therefore, wanting to flirt and sometimes doesn’t even know that he does. He flirted with at least three separate girls in the first movie, and in an effect caused the tension between Wendy and the pixie.
Tinkerbell, therefore, only lashed out at Wendy because of her feelings for Peter. Her jealousy did get the best of her when she made the deal with Hook. But it was later, when she realized her mistake, that she took it upon herself to fix what she had done. And it was in this action that she saved Peter from the bomb Hook had planted, sacrificing her own life for his (even though he had dubbed her a traitor and banished her), that she told Peter to go save the other’s first. In an effect, telling him that she didn’t deserve being saved or forgiven for what she had done. She hated herself for letting her jealousy get the way of the other’s safety and what she knew was right.
In the end, when everything was said and done, she used her gift of pixie dust to help the darling children return to where they were needed most. She didn’t berate Wendy like she had done before, but rather the two came to a silent and permanent understanding. They became friends, in various meanings of the word.
And later, when Wendy’s children were old enough the believe the stories of the boy who never grew up, Tinkerbell would once again befriend. Even through everything that Jane did, ultimately, putting Tinkerbell’s life in danger, she did not blame or berate. She loved and forgave with every fiber of her tiny being; thus showing that change is, for the most part, permanent.
You see, I do not judge her because she was quick to be hot headed, we all have those times. (Her little body could only hold one emotion at a time.) I judge her on what she did about it. Her ultimate change of heart, what I strive to be like on a daily basis. She may have been only able to feel one emotion at a time; but the truth is, what she did with them speaks louder that any rumbling voiced echo that ever was or has been or will be.
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