从哈利波特看儿童的成长英语毕业论文.doc

Harry Potter and the Growth of Children从哈利波特看儿童的成长AbstractToday, childrens literature is not excellent; the series of Harry Potter is a nice novel and a main work in childrens literature. From backgrounds, contents, reality meaning, the author points out the factors of Harry Potters success and makes more research, analyzes the influence of Harry Potter on children. J.K.Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, knows children clearly because she is a teacher. Through her point, children can be analyzed easily. Then, in order to understand childrens inner heart, the author analyzes what they think, and analyzes the factors of their characters being lost from three parts: school, household and society. Finally, the author calls for the close attention to children and the changes children themselves need.Key WordsHarry Potter; magic; moral; character 摘要在儿童文学作品风光不在的今天，哈利波特系列无疑是难得的佳作，是儿童文学的中流砥柱。从背景、内容、现实意义出发，笔者分析揭示哈成为神话的原因。更通过进一步的研究，分析此书对孩子的影响。另外，逐步深入孩子的内心世界，分析他们的所思、所想，并分析造成孩子人格缺失的各方面原因，主要从社会、教育、家庭三方面分析。最后，呼吁社会对孩子的关注及孩子所需的自身的改变。关键词哈利波特；魔幻；道德；品行 IntroductionAccording to the list of richest and famous women in the world entertainment circle released by Forbes on Jan.28, J. K. Rowling took the second place with her property of 10 billion. At first, she was a poor teacher and single mother who lived off social relief fund. But depending on a series of Harry Potter, she immediately became the richest woman in Britain. Thus，it can be seen how successful Harry Potter is. Most of the loyal readers are children.Being 24 years old, she was in a train trip from Manchester to London, a tin and weak witch with a pair of glasses and black hair burst into her eyes. He always smiled to her from the outside window. Then, this boy immediately burst into her life and became a part of her. Although at that time there was no pen and paper, she still imagined like a heavenly steed soaring across the skies. Finally she showed this story about Harry Potter to the world. Harry Potter was born a 10 year-old boy, with thin and small figure, a black and disheveled hair, bright green eyes, and a pair of round glasses. And there is a long and thin, lightning-liked scar on his forehead. Harry Potter is popular all over the world as a story of children.As a single mother, Rowling and her daughter lived a hard life. At the beginning of writing the series of Harry Potter - Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone, because her house was cold and small, she always went to a coffee house beside her house to write her story. After being published, her childrens story was focused by the world. She gained many awards, including Britain national book award, the Childrens novel award-Smarties award. Then she wrote Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban respectively in 1998 and 1999. With these two books publication, the world was shaken again. In July, 2007, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published, Harry Potter was more and more popular in the world. There are three novels more- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is being created. The data shows that Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone became the most popular book in Britain in 2001.From what is said above we can see that the whole world is crazy for the work of Harry Potter. In information times, the birth of a good novel is just the first step. It still needs a good operation. When Harry Potter sold well in Britain, the publishing businessmen made use of Internet, news and other ways to publicize this book all over the world. Harry Potter published in China was also translated at the same rate on the Internet. After this series being produced into film, they push Harry Potter into the market depending on the hot atmosphere. Just in China, the market of childrens book was made up of 300,000,000 children. The capacity was so big that it can not be compared in any other country. It was a new astonished record that it was translated into 46 languages and was sold wholesale up to about 30,550,000 books in the world. After the film of Harry Potter was produced, the record of box office was always broken at many places.With so many miracles, lots of questions appeared. What are the shining points of Harry Potters? Why can it attract so many children even adults? What influences do the children have after they read this book? . Harry Potters Attractive PointsHarry Potters author, Rowling have ardent love for English literature. And she majors in French in college. For her, being good at literature and language is especially important for her novels, and so is her understanding of cultural background. After her graduation, she becomes a teacher. This job helps her to be close to her students, children. Through this, she could deeply understand what childrens love is, what childrens psychology is, what their act is and what their inner problem is. All these help her create Harry Potter, a thrilling story.A. The Reflection of the Real World from the Magic World.In story, there is a magic school- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In this school, all the students and witches should obey its role. They will be punished if they go against the rules and they will be expelled from school if they do something terrible. It has the same rules and regulations like the reality school does. It is divided into four parts of school. Students must belong to one of them. If they do something wrong or against regulations, the part they belonged to will be deducted marks. In contrast, if students perform well on class and win honor, it will add some marks. At the end of the term, school will choose the best part and praise it according to the marks. One more point is that there is an extremely interesting and exciting sport in the school Quiddich, which is like the hockey ball except it is matched in the sky. The witches fly on the magic broom, catching the Golden Snitch, beating the Bludger with all kinds of the sharp sounds. In film, audiences out of the fictional world are excited as well as the players and other students in the film. An interesting detail is that the Nimbus Two Thousand broom is the latest and rapidest broom in the magic world when Harry was in grade one. Then, the broom is upgraded and Nimbus Two Thousand and Three took the place of Nimbus Two Thousand to become the most advanced. In the fictional world, all things are developing like in the real world, just as office 2000s being upgraded to office 2003.In school, witches also should take part in examinations. If they can not pass, they also have a chance to have make-up exams or they will fail to go up to the next grade. For exams, children have the deepest feeling. Through this novel and films, they can appreciate this as a personal favor. “There are still many other students just like me!” Maybe they will think. In novel, there are many kinds of students, just as intelligent Hermione Jane Granger, idiotic Neville Longbottom, kind Ron Weasley, arrogant Draco Malfoy, timid Ginny Weasley and so on. May be you will find that one of them is similar to you. These students are just common children if we do not see their identity.No matter where and when, discrimination always exists. Due to the existing of right, history, culture and many other factors, lots of inequalities come out. Discrimination of race, discrimination of extraction, discrimination of poverty, and so on, all those show the shadow side of human nature. In reality, although these phenomena gradually weaken, lots of inequalities can be seen all over the world. Just from the field of education, large numbers of examples can be taken.Firstly, it is because of inequality that children could have education according to money. Children from rich family can go to noble schools, and enjoy excellent sources of hardware and software. Children from poor family can only go to ramshackle school, and even some of them can not take the chances to accept the education.Secondly, sex discrimination. In many places, especially in rural areas of China, boys can go to school, but girls are not allowed to study with boys. Parents require their daughters to do farm work and housework. This phenomenon should be changed and now it is changing slightly too.Thirdly, in different areas, the right of having education is unequal. Like China, some areas where there are full of educational resources and the degree of having education per person is high originally, which takes up more resources.Fourthly, the right of having education in different races is unequal. Maybe this refers to some problems left by history.There are still many other problems, such as the difference of teachers attitude between good students and bad students, parents attitude, and societys attitude. All these problems can be found in Harry Potter. Lots of details reflect these phenomena.In the fictional world, people are divided into three parts. One is called Muggle, the common people who do not know witchcraft and do not believe it. One impolite name of it is Mudbloods. Second is a mixed-blood witch, which means one parent of it is Muggle. The third one is purebred witch from which noble families come. In this story, members from noble families are arrogant and impolite. But in fact, they are outwardly strong but inwardly brittle. They have enjoyed more privileges, but are still not content with it. They want to capture more rights, not minding sacrificing other peoples rights. In the aspect of wealth and poverty of nations, a Harvard University professor David S. Landes said, “Social problems looks like very complicated, but it has an easy way to say, that is to ask who the beneficiary is.” In order to gain the most benefit, they use dirty tricks to deceive others. Draco Malfoy is one of these guys who believe in blood relationship and right. One person without status and parentage is inferior to others. In the story, he hates and looks down upon Hermione Jane Granger though she is one of the wisest, the most intelligent and the finest student in school. Even he used extremely filthy words “Mudbloods” to abuse her. To noble men, the modest, gentle and refined character and morals are lost from him. But if he meets some famous persons he will try his best to form alliance with them and does not mind their blood. Harry is a purebred witch, but he was famous because he beat the worst man Voldemort when he was young. Of course Draco would like to get touch with Harry to raise his reputation. So for the first time he met Harry, he said to Harry: “Youll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You dont want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there” (J.K.Rowling, 1997). After Harry refused him, his innate nature gradually appeared. Draco Malfoy didnt go red, but a pink tinge appeared in his pale cheeks. Id be careful if I were you, Potter, he said slowly. Unless youre a bit politer youll go the same way as your parents. They didnt know what was good for them, either. You hang around with riffraff like the Weasleys and that Hagrid, and itll rub off on you” (J.K.Rowling, 1997). He hated Harry and regarded Harry as his sworn enemy through his life. He use puerile but vicious means to hurt Harry and his friends and boomeranged on him in the end.B. The Interesting Elements, Grotesque and Gaudy Adventure.The story is so breath-taking and full of suspenseful and tightly-knit plot. The content of the novel is so absurd and incredible, but the process of the story is surely wonderful, bold and unconstrained. In the space of imagination, it makes readers feel fully enlightened. Critic said that Harry Potter wins over the traditional best thriller and never let the scenes become dull. All of the scenes are full of tension, and then terror follows by the delight. You barely escape from one dangerous trap just now but a new and more terrible dangerous situation presses on towards you dimly. Harry Potter is close to childrens psychology and uses childrens words to narrate this story. Compared with it, the authors of Chinese childrens novels have not done this important point. Lacking of childrens words and view, they use the style of preaching to tell the stories. And the leading roles are always animals, such as pig, cat and so on. No changing and no blazing new trails. Chinese childrens literature can not compete with the quick rhythm and unprecedented imaginative power. The culture of China needs to develop with time. In fact, children are same as their parents. They not only need the encouragement coming from life but also need the moves from life itself. Maybe this is connected with mental attitude all over the society. Children are required to have the standard of adult. Once taking up the schoolbag, they are involved in and forced to pursue the fame and wealth through their lives. Thats style of narrating like a fresh wind which blows into the chaos. Thats why both adult and children are indulged in it.C. The Mixture of Culture, Legend and Fairy Tales of the Ancient Europe, the Middle-ages Europe and Todays Europe.Besides the wonderful story, the background is very important, too. In the modern times, there are cities over here and there. High-skyscrapers and high-rises can be seen everywhere. But in the fictional world, it seems that a few of fashioned elements mixes into the classic background. This is a big shining point.“The narrow path had opened suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers” (J.K.Rowling, 1997). This is the first description to the school. Romantic and dreamlike chapter is beginning from this beautiful classical architecture which was fashionable for the middle-ages Europe. “Inside the castle, the stone walls were lit with flaming torches” (J.K.Rowling, 1997). Harry had never even imagined such a strange and splendid place. “It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting” (J.K.Rowling, 1997). Harry looked upward and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with stars. He heard Hermione whisper, Its bewitched to look like the sky outside. I read about it in Hogwarts, A History (J.K.Rowling, 1997). From these descriptions we know that there are few modern products in the school. Lights, TVs, computers and any other equipment for teaching all do not exist. All things are charged by magic. The little witches are still using feather pen in stead of ball pen or pen. It feels that all witches culture and tradition are handed down. Readers are in the position of a gloom and full of alarmed and frightened atmosphere magic school in middle-ages Europe. They are looking forward to happening something interesting and unbelievable with Harry and his friends.The writer creates a three-dimensional magic world. She mixed many different kinds of cultures, legends and fairy tales of different times. In the story of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, alchemy becomes the main clue of the conspiracy. The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Sorcerers Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers. The stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal. “There have been many reports of the Sorcerers Stone over the centuries, but the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera lover. Mr. Flamel, who celebrated his six hundred and sixty-fifth birthday last year, enjoys a quiet life in Devon with his wife, Perenelle (six hundred and fifty-eight)” (J.K.Rowling, 1997).Alchemy is an ideology and practice of chemical philosophy and the embryonic form of present age. Its aim is to change the basic mental into golden, produce elixir of life and universal medicine. Nowadays, science improves that it is impossible. But until 19th century has alchemy not been denied. Some famous scientists including Newton have done some tests about alchemy. The appearance of modern times chemistry makes people doubt the possibility of alchemy. After 17th century, alchemy was criticized. The hope of alchemy was dashed.Alchemy is the biggest temptation of all for the people who pursuing external life. Since people appeared, they have dreamed to gain external life and have done many kinds of attempts. In these attempts, alchemists illusion and technology are used more widely than others. Alchemists believe that rectifying and refining the basic mental is a process from death back to life then even to perfection. It symbols those alchemists souls from death back to life then even to perfect. So, the medicine they refined can prolong life, refresh man and invigorate the function of brain, can let them get happy life, excellent wisdom, lofty moral, and can change their mental outlook; finally they can communicate with God. But this aim can not be attained. Alchemists also know this; therefore they explain it from every side. They make it subtle intentionally whether the universal medicine exists or not.More than 600 years ago, a pitiful copyist died quietly in Paris. He was the most famous mysterious man in the European history. He left enormous property of unknown origin, and strange dying words written by code. A mysterious relief was carved by his workers before he died on the wall of morgue of Pairs God of son cemetery. The first sentence on the relief is: “I saw an astonished mir