"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" By J.K. Rowland
Bloomsbury: 1999
This book is the second out of the Harry Potter series and is a favorite of mine and another book I found on the shelves of the university's English library here in Korea. I also read it while I was waiting for my own departure from a regretable situation although not as bad as the fictional Potter's is but still bad enough because it was real. I have not gotten paid from my job and was very low on funds and had very little food.
The plot in this book is the same as the previous Harry Potter in that Harry is mistreated at home by the Dursleys who is his aunt and uncle. Rowland does a good job in discribing this family. It seems to me that the success of these books can be attributed to the way the author brings her characters to life. The stories are character-driven although the story or plot is a fantastic romp through a fantastic world in which a mistreated young man proves his worth and defeats not only evil in the guise of Lord Voltermort but the everyday evil of those who mistreat those who supposedly can't fight back. The readers care what happens to different characters who appear in these books and all who surround Harry.
As I stated in the last description of the first book, Harry does find love and acceptance in the wizarding world but like the real world there are good wizards and there are some who are not so good. Some say that muggles are people who do not see the magic in the world around them such as non-artists, those who can't see the use of poetry, literature and so on. Those who can such as poets, writers, artists can see the magic but are full of faults as all of us are and make mistakes and some can rise above this and become the heroes that we are all capable of being.
I am writing this review of a book I re-read years after I read it. It is also a time after I was able to get out of the situation I was in when I wrote this several months ago. Things are much better now. I have begun to see Korea as it really is and not from the point of a bad situation. I still don't understand what was happening then and probably will never will. I told someone that maybe it was a cultural misunderstanding. Who knows? What I do know is that I really enjoyed reading this book one more time.
Bloomsbury: 1999
This book is the second out of the Harry Potter series and is a favorite of mine and another book I found on the shelves of the university's English library here in Korea. I also read it while I was waiting for my own departure from a regretable situation although not as bad as the fictional Potter's is but still bad enough because it was real. I have not gotten paid from my job and was very low on funds and had very little food.
The plot in this book is the same as the previous Harry Potter in that Harry is mistreated at home by the Dursleys who is his aunt and uncle. Rowland does a good job in discribing this family. It seems to me that the success of these books can be attributed to the way the author brings her characters to life. The stories are character-driven although the story or plot is a fantastic romp through a fantastic world in which a mistreated young man proves his worth and defeats not only evil in the guise of Lord Voltermort but the everyday evil of those who mistreat those who supposedly can't fight back. The readers care what happens to different characters who appear in these books and all who surround Harry.
As I stated in the last description of the first book, Harry does find love and acceptance in the wizarding world but like the real world there are good wizards and there are some who are not so good. Some say that muggles are people who do not see the magic in the world around them such as non-artists, those who can't see the use of poetry, literature and so on. Those who can such as poets, writers, artists can see the magic but are full of faults as all of us are and make mistakes and some can rise above this and become the heroes that we are all capable of being.
I am writing this review of a book I re-read years after I read it. It is also a time after I was able to get out of the situation I was in when I wrote this several months ago. Things are much better now. I have begun to see Korea as it really is and not from the point of a bad situation. I still don't understand what was happening then and probably will never will. I told someone that maybe it was a cultural misunderstanding. Who knows? What I do know is that I really enjoyed reading this book one more time.
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