Edit: Hahaha, oops, this was supposed to go to my beta...... ;)
Group by psycological pattern
Harry
Potter (stick with me non nerds) influenced a generation of young
minds, and swayed across the older generations' thought patterns too.
JK
Rowling isn't the best writer in terms of poetry, plot device etc.
I've heard many people discuss the level of enjoyment with a
wondering. I've called it her [world building] and found that not
quite significant enough words to descibe what I mean broadly enough;
and therein lies the heart of the matter.
As
a writer I am trying to describe [it happens in the overlays] through
character and plot, my peculiar perspective of the (real) world. This
is why I love novels and Tv in totally different ways - a novel is
one (sometimes more) mind collating together a life of experience
into a sifting tapestry that (if effective) will leave a reader mute
[/passive] to their own environment and persective; viewing through
the eyes of another into a shared imaginative world. Tv collects the
minds and body language of many to display a collated world that a
viewer can (in a similar manner) be absorbed by. [As discussed before
– [CHECK THIS] neuroplasticity would
imply that experience is encoded in neuronal patterns that with
exercise become more stable and the more likely [path/pattern/chain]
for [is it .electrons.] to slide
down[/follow].. Given that language works on a basis of mutual
experience and context (i.e. I know trees are usually green as does
my friend in Australia, we know around autumn they turn yellow as the
temperature drops, so if my friend asks about the weather 'leaves
have turned' is a decent explination), the language used by a writer
can tap into a lifetime of experience]. So if you can effect enough
minds to a pattern that's comfortably welcomed and exercised* then a
wave of motion in society is formed.
JK
Rowling's books were just described to me as a 'modern classic'
[prompting this piece]. We can probably all agree that the 7th book
wandered (“every publised writer knows, every book is a failure to
descibe what was imagined”) so if it's not the plot, characters are
great.. but there's someting more - it's the world.
The
four houses loosly tie together psychological behaviour/pattern
groups; the world is defined by victorious characters that call 'the
monster' what he is over leaving an unnamed evil, while accepting
that truly awful things happen and can be survived, overcome; and
integally, the characters display the kinds of bungling that happens
because time doesn't stop for us.
With
a world like that you can have characters display all manner of
traits in a fresh light.
These
are seven books and eight films that had a hand in making who we** are
today.
*across
the board (of people and experiance)
**me
and mine, at least
A/N;
some time if you're interested I'll tell the story of seeing the last
film for the first time, alone and content with the sounds of the
city of Sheffield as a backdrop.
