Blog Response #1

Josh Hipp

Blog Post #1

Prompt 1

                We all know the feeling we get when reading something that interests us, that feeling of emersion into the text and the lives of the characters. I too have that feeling when reading Harry Potter. We start to find similarities between the characteristics of the characters and our own characteristics or those of people we know. It is that phenomenon that lets us jump into the mind of the author and truly see where they are coming from because surely they too have seen similarities between their characters and the people of their own lives, because they crafted the characters. This makes me read more fluidly through the HP books because I feel related to the characters by the traits I share with them. It makes me more intrigued to continue with the series not only because the story is interesting but because I want to know if their lives will continue to relate to my own, without the magic of course. I have identified with more than one character in the series but it has changed as I've grown older. At the beginning of the series when I was younger I would have said Hermione was the most like me because I was mainly book smart when in middle school when I first started reading. Now a day's though I think I am more like Harry or Ron because I went through many trials in my life but I've overcome them to become successful today. There is many ways to appreciate the text and someone who doesn't have such an outstanding imagination may interpret the story differently than myself. One may merely see the series as a rags to riches, peasant to hero story where Harry an orphaned child grows up to be the savior of humanity or in this case Hogwarts. It's all in the eye of the beholder of course.

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