READ RAWLINGS
Have you actually read any of the Harry Potter Series of books?
It's been some time since a writer has attracted and held the attention of young people so expertly and parents who have not forgotten how real and demanding their early reading habits were when properly motivated.
British authoress J. K. Rawlings has done all of us a favor in bringing excitement and enthusiasm back into the idea of reading books. Young people today are reading the Harry Potter books with exceptional excitement and enthusiasm. No one can say, for sure, of course, just where this sudden acceptance of books by youth, ,might led us, but it seems to many adults that this is the start of something good for our children. It is most important, I feel, that we parents and grandparents follow though and become personally aware of the series - four volumes thus far and more in the making – which has influenced our children so strongly.
How does Rawlings work this special magic?
She works with amazing simplicity using tried-and true villains and ordinary people do commonplace things, She has great respect for the traditions Mankind has held for many centuries concerning the existence of magical qualities in the world and in certain humans, as well. Readers are not required to develop belief and acceptance of some, supposedly “new” man-made creature involving ultramodern techniques and concepts. She makes active use of our accepted world of commonly accepted concepts of witches, ghosts, goblins, trolls, elves, manifestations by magicians and necromancers among us and around us.. Never does she ask modern readers to believe in something that has not considered in the past by their predecessors. The demonic forces of evil and the redeeming qualities of good are set forth in modern dress. You may find much of it to familiar. Much of seems known to you from innately from your birth. You may well have been taught not to believe in such things; they they were sheer fabrications, yet, perhaps ...some of it could be, well, ...not true, exactly, but possible.
Harry Potter, put upon most cruelly by the circumstances of his birth and early life, and the means by which he matures; by which he grows, we do as well right along with him. We accept the fact that he is a wizard, as were his parents before him. He and we, are charged with combating evil in various forms. He strikes one as being so average that most readers find it easy to align themselves with his way of thinking and wishing for change.
The general pattern is a series of short adventure stories, each complete and satisfying in itself yet resolved in a manner which associates it with the larger theme of the book itself.. Rawlings successful overcomes any reading span problems young people may have. Her writing is a cut above that you may think applies to kid lit. One never gets the feeling she is “writing down” to children, Nor is she ever being smug with older readers - explaining details or pretending she dose not really believe in the magic which she write so well.
All if us might do well to attend a few lectures at her Hogwart's School for wizards and magicians. It is a pleasant way to find out what type of reading has attracted our youngsters intensely. It is not easy reading in the sense that we tend to think books for young people must be.
You may best start your Rawlings reading with the initial volume” “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone “ In that way you will get a firm cocept of the genesis of Harry Potter ,Wizard.
. A.L.M. September 27, 2003 [c657wds]
