Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.
Name:
Baldaniya Vanita
Class: M. A.
Part-2
Roll No: 29
Paper No: 13
The
New Literature.
Guidance By:
Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad.
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
Children’s
Literature and Harry Potter:
First of all what is Children Literature:
Children
Literature is good quality trade books for children’s from birth to
adolescence, covering topics of relevance and interested to children of those
ages, through prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
Harry Potter is children’s books some
people might suggest “children’s books” but it is doubtful that they are right
because Harry Potter books appeal to many children. But is children’s books
really a genre of literature apart from pre-school fantasy books.
Harry Potter is children’s detective
stories, children’s handicraft books, children’s adventure stories and
children’s fantasy books, just like there encyclopaedias, detective stories, and
fantasy books for adults and many are suitable for both age groups.
Perhaps a detective story for children is
not as complicated as one for adults but it is likely that the child who loves
such stories will grow into an adult who loves the same only on a higher level.
But we cannot classify Harry Potter primarily as children’s books but as
fantasy literature perchance on a “tower” level than other works of its kind,
but still part of the same genre.
Harry Potter is interesting books but
every part is gives moral lesson to us. For Example:
Sweet layer on bitter pill. Same children
literature is for children but deep satire on society also. Harry Potter is
imaginative fiction depended for effect on strangeness of setting (such as
other worlds or times, and of character and of character (such as supernatural
of unnatural beings).
In children’s literature generally hero
is in green shied it means hero is child and they have immature, innocence,
trustworthy, undoubting, and hero’s opposite villain is more mature. When
children watch a movie that time they
have look only picture and listen dialogue of movie and enjoy only but children
are not analysis about movie but when adults are watch a movie that time they
have analysis is mud blood, muggle etc. and everything that when time they have
watch movie so that is different aspect of children books or movie and also
adults.
Harry Potter is horror books and
fully imagination and fantasy books but children enjoy a lot and one more
things that whenever children literature wrote that time write centre of ending
of any work form that is any story is horror is happy that is children
literature. So Harry Potter is horror books, but fantastic books so children
are like Harry Potter books.
In Harry Potter not only fantasy or
imaginative books but with so many realistic things are there in books. That is
love, relationship, friendship, society people, emotional so many things are
there in Harry Potter. Harry’s love with his mother, Ron and Hermione and
Harry’s friendship with each other.
Harry’s relation with society people and
his Uncle and emotional to each other that is true aspect of reality in human
life and in Harry Potter books
I have say something about children
literature that children literature is not only horror literature and not fully
fantastic story of literature but many character through writer say something
about social reality and status in society people in society.
For Example:
!1) David
Copperfield
By- Charles Dickens
2) Oliver
twist
By- Charles Dickens
3) The Blue
Umbrella
By- Ruskin Bond.
This all are children literature work but
that is not horror or fully fantastic books. But in the work character is small
girls or boys and villain is big or elder. For example: Oliver Twist: Oliver is
small hero younger the 9 year old but his opposite villain is Fagin 25 years
old that same thing in David Copperfield, David is small boy but school master
id also old.
In
‘the blue umbrella’s Binya’s character is small but shopkeeper is old man so
writer choose this type of character in books or works because small boy or
girl struggle in her/his life so children are surprise that in trouble time
hero or heroine character are struggle in small age.
Ruskin Bind is children literature writer
and his work is easy way wrote and use simple language but give the moral
lesson in human being and symbolized
that child is innocent and immature than why child struggle a lot in they have
life. Orphan child is accept punishment of his/her father Oliver Twist is
orphan child but that is not Oliver’s mistake but he struggle a lot in society
people.
Ruskin Bond is primarily known for his
children stories. He is in fact, the pioneer of modern children literature
writer in India. The rise of new children’s literature is partly due to the
breakdown of the traditional family set up, when kids often, listened to oral,
“Story by
grandparents: The rise of media entertainment and tide communications
Also has
contributed to the popularity of children’s literature. Bond has captivated his
young readers by the charm and freshness traditional as well as modern.”
Bond’s character are portrayed in almost
all the stories just as real life characters. Bond believes that a writer
should be responsible to society and man. He is neither a propagandist more
philosopher. His fiction is reflect with human value and universal appeal. A.
C. Word’s opinion about the fiction can be applied to Bond’s fictional world:-
“It is not a
fairy tale or wholly and solely means of relation, a harmless opiate for,
vacant hours and vacant minds.”
In ‘The Blue Umbrella’ Bond fabricated a
simple unambitious innocent world. His characters struggle hard for their
survival. His characters are also lively embodiments of the magnetite of his
soul.
In the ‘Oliver Twist’ Oliver’s mother
dies after the birth of her child in a workhouse. The infant’s father is
unknown, and the orphan is placed in a private Juvenile home. After nine years
of mistreatment, the boy is returned to the workhouse for even more abuse.
After representation his fellow sufferers in an attempt to get more food,
Oliver is punished and is apprenticed to sower berry, an undertaker. Oliver is
innocent boy but other people are do work of Oliver that criminal type so
Oliver struggle a lot in small age.
Oliver is innocent person. He was a
hunger boy so he says of house master that “get a more” and work house man
punishment give of Oliver but question that why not give more and not give more
but what his mistake so workhouse man give the punishment.
In David Copperfield also the ‘Oliver
Twist’ type to story. David is small boy but fighting with society people and
Oliver, David etc. small character fight with society and struggle a lot so
children like this type to books.
Harry is struggle a lot in his life and
fight with magical power is Voldemort and so many trouble and adventure passes
in his small life and always he fight again society and magical power but that
time Hermione and Ron support a lot of Harry. Also Dumbledore support so Harry
fight with Voldemort.
I give some example of Serial or movie
that children like.
Movie: Krish
Saktiman
Bal Ganesha
Serial:
Balveer
Sonpari
Chota Bheem etc.
So, that all movie and serial like a
children because in this movie or serial hero or heroine is small child but
struggle a lot and fight with magical power so that is fantastic but children
like that. That is children Literature.
‘Harry Potter’ is a children literature
work but adults person also like ‘Harry Potter’ because a serious of many
genres, including fantasy, drama, coming of age and the British school story.
Which includes elements of mystery, thriller, adventure, horror and romance. It
has many cultural meaning and reference. According to Rowling, the main theme
is death, there are also many other themes in the series, such as prejudice,
corruption, and madness.
The novels revolve around Harry Potter,
an orphan who discovers at the age of eleven that he is a Wizard, though he
lives in the ordinary world of non-magical people known as Muggles. The
Wizarding world has hidden from the Muggle world, presumably to avoid
persecution of witches and Wizards, which had occurred to a great extent several
centuries before. His magical ability is inborn, and children with such
abilities are invited to attend an exclusive magic school that teaches the
necessary skill to succeed in the Wizardind world.
Harry becomes a student at Hogwarts
School of witchcraft and Wizardry, and it is here where most of the events in
the series take place. As Harry develops through his adolescence, he learns to
overcome the problems that face him:
Magical, social and emotional, including ordinary teenage challenges
such as friendship, infatuation, romantic relationships, schoolwork and exams,
anxiety, depression, stress, and the greater test of preparing himself for the
confrontation in the real world that lies ahead, in Wizarding Britain’s
increasingly- violent second Wizarding war.
According to Rowling…”A major theme in
the series is death, “My books are largely about death. They open with the
death of Harry’s Parents. There is Voldemort’s obsession with conquering death
and his quest for immortality at any price,
the goal of anyone with magic. I so understand why Voldemort wants to conquer
death, were all frightened of it.”
Really, well prepared. Appropriate example or images i found.
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