He, according to Amy Billone, “participate[s] in a world of dreams that is at once the product of his greatest joys and his most terrible fears” ( Billone 190-191). This balance between his “greatest joys and his most terrible fears” makes it seem almost applicable to any child that he might be able to do the same. Children easily get involved in the fantasy world and having a child who represents it all at once is in high demand. Throughout the novel, Peter's flaws emerge and become an appeal to the lost boys and Wendy, but only for a while. This is because “all the children, except one, grow up (Barrie 1) and although the call to join Peter in youth that lasts forever is tempting, maturation will always take them back. Peter represents the ultimate “dream child[]” (Billone 180) who will never grow up because he will not be threatened by the truth that is age. His "story fits into 'a realm of literature that unflinchingly fixes the truth, that overcomes the flaws and inconsistencies, the intellectual and social forces of our time, directly into the collective mind of its audience'" (Biglione 181) . This “truth” revolves around the fact that everyone must grow up, and Peter Pan is so appealing because it “deals with the distressing evaporation of innocence caused by temporality itself” (Billone 181).