English 2033E Lecture 10: Children's Literature Lecture 10 - Nov 17

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2033E
• Professor: Gabrielle Ceraldi

Document Summary

Takes the protagonist away from home, where they become a hero: adventure, external conflict, individual hero. Group hero is seen in harry potter | harry, ron, hermione: boarding school book. School days by tom brown: lord of the flies-esque. Harry potter and the philosopher"s stone: p28: they stuff peoples" heads down the toilets on the first day of school . Typical girl genre tropes: realism, home, safety, family, internal conflict. Sin, moral struggles, struggles of social adaptation: group hero. Little women | all four of the march sisters identify with christian (pilgrim"s. Progress) rather than to christiana (typical female idol) Harry seeing the common room: anne"s bedroom description vs. harry potter. Gryffindor common room is significantly different | womb-like, soft, cozy, safe refuge in a home: very important to harry, as much as it is to anne. Self-identity: harry doesn"t know he"s a wizard, doesn"t know about magic, doesn"t know about his family.