Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - review.
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE Book Review Many of the beloved heroes and heroines of children's literature -- from Cinderella and Snow White to Oliver Twist and the Little Princess to Matilda, Maniac Magee and the great Gilly Hopkins -- begin their lives being raised by monstrously wicked, clueless adults, too stupid to see what we the readers know practically from page 1: This is a terrific person we'd love to have for a best friend. And so it is with Harry Potter, the star of ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,'' by J. K. Rowling, a wonderful first novel from England that won major literary awards and has been at the top of the adult best-seller lists there, and is having the same kind of success here too. Poor Harry Potter is orphaned as a baby and is sent to live with his odious aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley, and their fat son, Dudley. While Fat Dudley Dursley has two bedrooms (one just for his surplus toys, like the television set he put his foot through when his favorite show was canceled), Harry is forced to sleep in a crawl space under the stairs, has never had a birthday party in his 11 years and must wear his cousin's way baggy hand-me-down clothes. But Harry is destined for greatness, as we know from the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead, and one day he mysteriously receives a notice in the mail announcing that he has been chosen
Children's books
When people talked about the children's books or readings, they always have certain stereotype images, such as big fonts with colorful pictures, fairy tales with all imaginations, or these books are not suitable for adults to read. People also think that all of children's stories have happy endings, and create a positive image on everything. But actually there was no such thing called "children's books "in the past. From my parent's generation or even my grandparents' era, they don't have too many choices on the children's literatures. All they had are some fairy tales or old stories which orally passed by generations through generations. There is no one confoundedly to write for children. Until the middle of the 20th century, people started to concentrate and focus to write the books for children. That's why we can have so many choices and so many varieties of books for the children. Some authors even categorized themselves as the "children's book writers" to separate with other writers. For the younger readers, such as kids are not even go to preschool. They don't know many words or any alphabets at all. Their readings must be accomplished with older adults. Reading is a kind of game or activity to these kids. They enjoy the time to spend with their parents. For them, their readings must attract their attention with multicolored images and even audio sounds. Winners never
In J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, this world of torture and adventure is present.
One of the issues described by parents and other adults in most articles are centered on children's literature and the censorship debate. This is indicated clearly by views on children developing morals and values and the "tension between kid culture and adult marketing." There is two extreme point of views where by some parents portray children's literature as evil when it presents issues many parents don't want to know of or deal with. Tales of a young boy attending "Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry travels back and forth between two worlds, the mystical world of magic and the mundane world of muggles." (Bewitched by Harry Potter, pg. 1) In J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, this world of torture and adventure is present. Some view Harry Potter as a combination of detective work of Harry Boys and Nancy Drew, a play world of Charles Dickens and Dr. Seuss. Another words J.K Rowling is viewed as an excellent imaginative author since Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. Potter books transcend fantasy. Others would strongly disagree, "some claim the Potter books lure children into witchcraft." (In defense of Harry Potter, pg. 2) Grownups are buying books to read to children, but they are also reading the books themselves, which in return leads to "the infantilization of adult culture, the loss of a sense of what a classic really is." (Besotted
J.K. Rowling's fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry - review.
Independent Reading Assignment In J.K. Rowling's fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry with his friends Ron and Hermione helped to save Harry's godfather from Lord Voldermort. Harry Potter, the main character of the story, is a fifteen-year-old boy who is an orphan. Harry Potter is also a wizard who is learning at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His closest family member is Sirius Black. Sirius Black is a convicted murderer although he did not murder anyone. Ron Weasley his best friend comes from a big, poor wizard family. His entire family has red hair. Hermione Granger is another one of Harry's good friends. She is a very clever witch even though she comes from a muggle family. A muggle is a person that does not have any magical power in them like Hermione's parents. Albus Dumbledore is the old and wise Headmaster of Hogwarts and is the only wizard that Lord Voldemort fears. Lord Voldemort is the most powerful, dark wizard of all time and the whole wizarding world fears him greatly. Harry has begun to have very strange dreams about being inside the body or the object that Voldemort is possessing at that time. Harry believes that these dreams are actually occurring in the real world. Dumbledore can see that Harry is having these dreams and does not think that it is a good idea for them to continue. This was mainly due to the
Generalizations about Children's Books & Children's Reading.
Submission 2 Julie Krenzler Paper 1 Wed. May 19th, 2004 Generalizations about Children's Books & Children's Reading I had, in my mind, some of the prescribed generalizations that people have about children's books, but I thought that I would conduct a small-scale poll of my own. I had printed out a hard copy of the assignment and had brought it to my boyfriend's house so that I could generate ideas while he watched a basketball game (he's a die-hard Pistons fan). During one of the intermissions, he leaned over and read the assignment sheet and asked me the golden question, "Generalization about children's books? What does that mean?". Ah, my research had begun. I asked him to imagine a children's book in his hand and to tell me what was inside. He had pictured a Doctor Seuss' book and recounted generalizations such as, a large font, silly, uncomplicated words, colourful pictures, elementary plot, short, simple sentence structure and rhyming words. I felt my boyfriend had succinctly narrowed into the public's general thoughts about children's literature far more than I could have, probably because I have studied children's literature and know differently, or do I? In this world there are generalizations that are absolutely false. They are tales and legends made up by people who witness one or two occurrences, and then decide that it is an