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Schoefer believes women in general characterized so
weak in harry potter’s book. She believes there are not powerful and
independent woman characters in the books and those who exist are so emotional
and dependent on man and all of their effort is to impress men characters of
the book. She establishes this criterion by bringing examples of different
women characters and personalities of the book who are somehow incomplete like
Hurry’s friend Hermione. As schoefer argues even though Hermione is incredibly
smart, she desperately needs to prove herself to the boys of the book.
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Schoefer tries to be fair in her argument so she
starts her point with mentioning positive points in harry potter books. She
points out the books are in the best sellers list, they make kids to readers,
and the books are so attractive with all their details in a magical world which
even made her as a grown up person to stick in them. I think she considers all
positive features of the book that she could. The fact that she includes her
personal experience with the books and mentioning that how attractive the books
are for her helps her to make a justified argument. This shows she does not
look at the issue only from negative point of view.
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She support her argument with different example of
women’s personality of the book including Hermione, Professor McGongall, and
Ginny –Ron’s younger sister.In addition her final evidence is part of the book
which with illustrate men and women in one place “there are funny little
witches” versa " wild looking warlocks”
and after that she places her audience as a judge to decide which one is
better? Her refutation is when she points out against her argument that women
are weak personalities; people mention Hermione who is smartest student is the
school.
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I personally love Harry
potter’s book and my reason for this is not because I imaged myself as the hero
character of the books. I love it because her new world of magic that J.K
Rowling pictured through her books and I don’t believe sexist is in Harry
potters book. My answer is yes , this small issues could be ignored in Harry
Potters series.
I am confused. The question was whether or not she was justified in leaving out the positive aspects of the books, or is she unfairly slanting her evidence. And its pretty obvious that she is slanting her evidence because she leaves out a lot of important aspects of the females characters that can not be overlooked. For example is not for Hermione then Ron and Harry would be dead. But in your last bullet there you said "yes , this small issues could be ignored in Harry Potters series." does that mean you agree with what she is saying or that you disagree and think the book shouldn't be seen as sexist?
ReplyDeleteI think she lay out some good points in the article but, I also think that the book was not intended to be sexist. The book was wrote by a female so I find it hard to believe that she was being unfair. Maybe thats just the way that she view the world and how it should be.
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