Thursday, April 27, 2017

Week 7


At one point, every kid dreamed of having magical abilities and being able to cast magic spells. The only way to see this dream though, however, was with our imaginations or books/movies. This week, since I already read all seven Harry Potter books, I decided to read Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. The book did give me a very Harry Potter vibe, which I’m not completely sure if its simply because of the shared genre or if it’s the similar components both stories share, like a school for magically gifted people and an unknown magical entity as the antagonist. Setting stories like these in schools with a magical element to them is a great way of helping young adult readers connect while also allowing them to escape into a fantasy world. By setting the stories in a school, the day to day obstacles the characters face and must overcome are similar to those that readers who are students face.

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