>>213647844>The problem is, and they leave it out of the movies, that when the lost boys grow up and want to leave, peter kills them as they threaten his fantasy, his self delusion.I was about to call you a retard, because this doesn't happen in the books. But I found the line you were talking about, and it turns out you're still a retard because you can't read.
>The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them outThat ";" is what we call a semi-colon, and it denotes two related, but separate ideas. Here's how your brain should process this information, if you knew how to read
1)The number of lost boys fluctuates
COMMA, this indicates a continuation of the previous idea
2)This is because the boys occasionally get killed (pirates, Indians, wildlife, etc.) and "so on" i.e. join and leave, like when peter drops them all off at Wendy's house at the end of the book
SEMICOLON - this indicates that the next idea is a disparate thought, although it is related to the prior concept, i.e. the fluctuating number of boys
3)In addition to the usual methods, Peter Pan also removes some of the boys from the gang when they start growing up.
Now, it's not explicitly mentioned how he does this, but killing seems incredibly unlikely considering the fact that he voluntarily drops a bunch of them off in the real world at the end of the book. If the author intended the construction of the sentence to imply the killing of children by Peter, the verb killed would be immediately followed by an elaboration about peter thinning them out, rather than the qualifier "and so on" that deliberately implies there are many other methods by which the lost boys come and go.