Saturday, June 2, 2012
Harry Potter's Girl Trouble
In Schoefer's essay Harry Potter's Girl Trouble she is evaluating how woman or girls are just helpers or enablers and have do higher meaning. To begin with, she starts her argument with the positive qualities that the Harry Potter series has to offer. Such as its "impressive lead on the best selling list", how Harry has the ability to turn all types of kids into readers, and the colorful but impressive imagery that just hooks the reader. Schoefer also left out some positive features that most likely enriched her argument. Some of these include how Hermoine may be annoying to the boys, but they were both in love with her, it cause a love triangle that added some interesting detail to a few of the books. She also forgets to explain how Hermoine saved their butts countless times proving that she is the brains to the operation, her story was deep and well thought out and it seems like Schoefer just ignores it to persuade her view on the "sexism" that the Harry Potter series is cursed with.
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Shoefer's review was definitely bias. She focused so much on the feminist point of view she overlooked the major positive attributes of the Harry Potter stories. She even points out that she has been accused of being a feminist in her reviews of this story. Shoefer refutes the fact fact that she is a feminist by discounting the opinions of others. I think she misses a lot by the way she thinks and it shows in her writing. This can teach people to be open minded and have more than one point of view.
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