R: As I am reading I continue to wonder what it exactly it is that makes me just as interested in the book now as I was when I was in the first grade. What about the Harry Potter series makes this young boy such a world wide phenomenon. It really is just incredible that a series I began reading in the first grade was the same one that my mom proceeded to read years later when the book became so immensely popular. The main thing that I feel like may be an extremely appealing quality to this book is that it doesn't create a make believe world that takes the place of our own world, she makes this new place that exists aside our own but in secret. She makes it so that it feels like it could almost be real. That there really could be this secret magic world that is being hidden from the rest of us. It appeals to those who still believe in this sort of thing flat out and also to those who like to believe that it does exist out there somewhere. Also she makes the subjects of the book a young crowd which a number of age ranges can relate to. The younger audience that it appealed to was then able to grow up with the characters. For those who can't directly relate to the age range could relate to them and what one but can also relate to the more adult themes that J.K. Rowling presents in the book. The characters do of course begin at the age of 11 but are never seeming to deal with matters that an 11 year old should in the wider spectrum of what the story is about.
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Though you have 6/6 entries for 10/29, they were all posted on the same day on a book that you are reading for the seventh time, and could have been written without your rereading. So, here's the question: how is your time with this blog advancing your reading and writing skills?
ReplyDeleteWell I hadn't read the book in ten years so it's been pretty refreshing looking back at it as a seventeen year old as opposed to a second or first grader....
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