The first Harry Potter book,
published in 1997, was a publishing sensation that turned into a worldwide
phenomenon. Many people saw the Harry potter books as valuable, for a variety
of reasons. For example, they turn lots of kids to book readers generation
after generation. Kids who never read even twenty pages’ book, thanks to Harry Potter,
these kids read 8 hounded pages ‘books with pure enthusiasm. Also, since Harry
Potter books are written about a fantasy world- a world that does not exist in
real life-, the readers can feel themselves in a new world. A world full with
interesting stuff, details about an imaginary school, rules that perfectly make
sense in wizard’s world let readers to give themselves a break from the seriousness
of the real life. However, some people have criticized the series, for example,
that Christine Schoefer on her article blames Harry Potter’s series for being
sexism. She pointed out that female’s characters are too emotional and
powerless in books. Others like Michiko Kakutani believe that books are getting
badly dark years after years. Lots of characters die in the last books, Harry
finds out that his dad was not perfect model for him, and he starts to have a connection
with Lord Voldemort which make him even dangerous person sometimes. Depending
on the criteria used for evaluation, the Harry Potter books can be seen in
positive or negative terms. If we judge them on the basis of popularity, percentage
of kids who start to read books and incredible and fascinating world that J.K.
Rowling creates for millions of people around the world ,it seems clear that
they are deserve their popularity.
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