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HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER´S STONE.

To choose either writing a 250-word text.


1. Choose one of the passages of any of chapters 1 through 6 of The Lord of the Rings
and discuss the way in which it appeals to fantasy and imagination.
First it is convenient to specify the meaning of some adjectives: supernatural, something
that surpasses natural laws, such as that a dead person is resurrected; anything whose
explanation we do not know, as is for most people the TV remote control, something that
amazes us and of which we admire, starting with a landscape; fantastic, something created
by the imagination that may or may not amaze or be mysterious, for example, a magic
wand, a qualifier that commutes with any of the above, at least in colloquial language.
Anything supernatural can be marvelous and is always mysterious and has a real
consistency that the fantastic does not have. That is, the marvelous and the mysterious
depend on the observer and are somewhat subjective, the fantastic and the supernatural in
themselves have nothing subjective.
After all, after Harry Potter's triumph, his relationship with Voldemort was his mother's
love: beloved Dumbledore told him that even when the one who loved us was gone, he left
us protected forever. This appeal works because many of us have no problem
communicating the magical power of motherhood. But in the very special cases where
something unexplainable happened because it was almost supernatural or supernatural, just
mentioning what happened was enough without too much embellishment. Whether the
reader believes it or not depends on the author's talent, but it is better if the author skips
detailed explanations because they do not exist, and he does not have enough of them. It is
not that the text cannot include super specific allegories, as is always done for didactic
reasons, as it is sometimes necessary, but when we do so we are out of real literature. In
this area, some of us believe that the wisdom and freedom of the reader should be
respected, so we ask the author not to try to impose his own choices or stereotypes, even all
good choices.
Besides thinking that the difficulty of going beyond that is insurmountable, I like to keep
some things ironic, especially my own. If someone still doesn't believe in Harry Potter
because of the many strange interpretations of the content it has, it's best to consider that
the cause of the misunderstanding is not necessarily the story or who told it, it could also be
because of who listens or reads it.

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