Word: books
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harry's appeal goes beyond the children's audience. When asked whether she or her parents enjoy the books more, Alice responds with a devilish smirk and a giggle: "My parents like it more!...My mom always says, 'Don't you want to read Harry Potter?'" Indeed, in the Henry household, Rowling's books have created so much excitment that Alice's mother reports one family argument caused when Dad read ahead and finished the book before everyone else...
...question remains: why is Harry Potter such a hit with adults? The series is so popular that two of the books now occupy top slots on the New York Times Bestseller list. Nissara Horayangura, a senior in Eliot House, agrees that the hype caused her to buy the first book in the series. But as soon as she started reading, she was hooked. "It's a fantasy book, but it's suspenseful--it's a compulsive read. And it's not obvious, even to adults...
...Horayangura believes that the series appeals to an older audience because Rowling uses adult vocabulary and weaves a complicated plot full of suprising twists which fall neatly into place at the close of each book. And as the series progresses, each book becomes more sophisticated...
...first book had lots of magic and crazy creatures, but by the third book...an adult could really read into it; there were deeper themes and social commentary. The Prisoner of Azkaban gets away from the 'fluffy fluffy' cool magical stuff, and becomes more like literature. There's a lot of allegory underneath...
...pupils come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. And like so many of today's movies and TV programs, Rowling's story is straightforward about the tragedies and violence in its characters' lives. Harry has painful memories of his mother screaming as she is brutally murdered, and each book contains descriptions of suffering and tragedy...