Lost Boys
Neverland's young inhabitants
Lost Boys refers most famously to the group of orphaned children in J.M.
Barrie's Peter Pan who live in Neverland and never grow up.
The term has since been applied to various groups of displaced or abandoned young males, most notably the Sudanese refugees who fled civil war in the 1980s and 90s.
It can also describe young men who seem directionless or refuse to embrace adult responsibilities.
He's one of those lost boys still figuring out what to do with his life.
Fictional eternal youth realm
- TinkerbellLoyal fairy sidekick
- Captain HookPirate with metal appendage
- WendyEnglish feminine name
- J.M. BarrieNeverland's literary creator
pirates · mermaids · crocodile · flying · pixie dust · Smee · fairy tale · nursery
Those who fled
- orphansChildren whose parents died
- outcastsRejected, excluded people
- misfitsThose who don't belong
- feralWild after domestication
wild · urchins · homeless · abandoned · street kids · gang · tribe · brotherhood
Desire to kill
- fangsSharp piercing teeth
- undeadDeceased yet animate
- motorcyclePowered two-wheeler
- boardwalkPlanked waterfront pathway
Kiefer Sutherland · garlic · stake · coffin · nightlife · pack · initiation · transformation
Underage combatants in war
- civil warDomestic armed conflict
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- SudanNortheast African republic
Ethiopia · resettlement · survival · walking · humanitarian · documentary · memoir · trauma
Neverland
Fictional eternal youth realm
- TinkerbellLoyal fairy sidekick
- Captain HookPirate with metal appendage
- WendyEnglish feminine name
J.M. Barrie · pirates · mermaids · crocodile · flying · pixie dust · Smee · fairy tale · nursery · shadow
runaways
Those who fled
feral · wild · urchins · homeless · abandoned · street kids · gang · tribe · brotherhood · camaraderie
bloodlust
Desire to kill
- fangsSharp piercing teeth
- undeadDeceased yet animate
- motorcyclePowered two-wheeler
Kiefer Sutherland · boardwalk · garlic · stake · coffin · nightlife · pack · initiation · transformation · sunlight
child soldiers
Underage combatants in war
- civil warDomestic armed conflict
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- displacementRemoval from usual location
Sudan · Ethiopia · resettlement · survival · walking · humanitarian · documentary · memoir · trauma · resilience
- Peter PanPeter Pan, Neverland, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, Wendy
- Vampiresvampire, vampires, vampirism, fangs, coffin
- Orson Scott CardThe Swarm, Ender, Bean, Petra, Valentine
- immortalityimmortality, eternal life, immortals, everlasting life, deathlessness
- Cult FilmsEraserhead, The Room, Donnie Darko, Napoleon Dynamite, Army of Darkness
Lost Boysadults
Fully mature individuals
Wendy Darling · fathers · Captain Hook · adult survivors · Peter Pan
lost, loss, boy, loser, losing, boys, loses, boyish, boyhood