Harry potter as children literature

                                        

Harry potter was written as children literature because it deals with fantasy world, but after four books it doesn’t remain as a children’s literature. Along with children’s literature it contains some aspect of adolescent literature as well. Along with fantasy it took children to the reality that if you know magic then also you can’t bring the death ones back. There are many moral and highly philosophical dialogues from very begging to the end throughout the novel.

The Harry Potter novels serve as a test case showing how Foucault's theories about power can be used to better understand adolescent literature. The crux of defining adolescent literature as distinct from children's literature revolves around the issue of power. While growth in children's literature is depicted as a function of what the character has learned about self, growth in adolescent literature is depicted as a function of what the adolescent learns about how society curtails power. The adolescent cannot grow without experiencing gradations between power and powerlessness. Consequently, power is even more fundamental to the genre than growth is. Adolescents must learn to negotiate the many institutions that shape them and how to balance their power with their parents' power and with the power of authority figures in general. Finally, they must learn what portion of power they wield because of and despite such biological imperatives as sex and death. Adolescents are empowered by institutions and their parents and by their knowledge of their bodies, but by offering up rules and holding repercussions over their heads that limit their newfound freedoms, these things also restrict them. The Harry Potter novels serve as a test case showing how Foucault's theories about power can be used to better understand adolescent literature. The crux of defining adolescent literature as distinct from children's literature revolves around the issue of power. 

While growth in children's literature is depicted as a function of what the character has learned about self, growth in adolescent literature is depicted as a function of what the adolescent learns about how society curtails power. The adolescent cannot grow without experiencing gradations between power and powerlessness. Consequently, power is even more fundamental to the genre than growth is. Adolescents must learn to negotiate the many institutions that shape them and how to balance their power with their parents' power and with the power of authority figures in general. Finally, they must learn what portion of power they wield because of and despite such biological imperatives as sex and death. Adolescents are empowered by institutions and their parents and by their knowledge of their bodies, but by offering up rules and holding repercussions over their heads that limit their newfound freedoms, these things also restrict them. 







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