ACtually, I think the level of writing in the Harry Potter book have gone up as the main characters age. . . ^^ but that's just me.
As for her implying that Harry Potter can't be literature because it's a children's book is kind of silly: After all, Alice in Wonderland is considered a classic. Narnia is considered classic literature. It's sort of like saying Albert Camus can't be a philosopher because he writes in French and uses REALLY simplistic language. After all, I read Les Justes and understood all of it - it's incredibly simple language.
As for the plagiarism thing:
In Canada, we're required to take English all the way through, and then we need to take 2.0 essay courses in university. A lot of people are really against it, and I knew a lot of those people (because i took the same math and science classes as them) who thought it was a complete waste of time. There's no real point arguing with them about the beauty of Hamlet or something (Which, as far as I'm concerned, is just about the best Shakespeare play EVERRRRR), because they'll never get it. To them, it's just a waste of a course they could have used to take a third math class or something. . . ^^ I don't really know where I'm going with it, because I really enjoyed English when I took it, but I still hate writing essays. It's just not my thing.
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Date: 2006-08-13 01:24 am (UTC)ACtually, I think the level of writing in the Harry Potter book have gone up as the main characters age. . . ^^ but that's just me.
As for her implying that Harry Potter can't be literature because it's a children's book is kind of silly: After all, Alice in Wonderland is considered a classic. Narnia is considered classic literature. It's sort of like saying Albert Camus can't be a philosopher because he writes in French and uses REALLY simplistic language. After all, I read Les Justes and understood all of it - it's incredibly simple language.
As for the plagiarism thing:
In Canada, we're required to take English all the way through, and then we need to take 2.0 essay courses in university. A lot of people are really against it, and I knew a lot of those people (because i took the same math and science classes as them) who thought it was a complete waste of time. There's no real point arguing with them about the beauty of Hamlet or something (Which, as far as I'm concerned, is just about the best Shakespeare play EVERRRRR), because they'll never get it. To them, it's just a waste of a course they could have used to take a third math class or something. . . ^^ I don't really know where I'm going with it, because I really enjoyed English when I took it, but I still hate writing essays. It's just not my thing.