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4.38 AVERAGE
4.38 AVERAGE
adventurous
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Harry talks to snakes and everyone hates him for it and he hangs out in a girls bathroom for months. Also Snape is a bad guy.
Excellent book for kids and adults alike. My 7-year-old stayed up past 11 pm reading the last 3 chapters by herself, so if that is not indicative of a great story, then I don't know what is. Looking forward to starting the 3rd book in the series soon.
adventurous
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The prefect book for a cozy fall read. I definitely love chamber of secrets more as a book than a movie. Much more interesting and intriguing.
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets has always been one of my favourites of the series. This book gets a little darker than the first, especially in the way that it parallels Harry and Voldemort.
“I wondered, you see. There are strange likenesses between us, after all. Even you must have noticed. Both half-bloods, orphans, raised by Muggles. Probably the only two Parselmouths to come to Hogwarts since the great Slytherin himself. We even look something alike..”
As evil as he is, there is something compelling about Tom Riddle. Why does a person choose to do evil? Why does a person choose to do good? Riddle experienced first hand the hatred of Muggles towards Wizards; something that threatened his family and caused him to be cast aside into a world of abuse. Harry, too, was raised unloved, but at the start of his life was loved so fiercely by his mother that he was saved. He carried that love with him. Riddle never had that - he was not only not loved, he was hated by his father.
This book is important because we see Harry struggle with the very same thing. He feels, in some ways, that he is not truly good or worthy of being a Gryffindor. He wonders if he is not truly a Slytherin. But all around him are peers and mentors who guide him: “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
Even Ginny and Dobby face a struggle with shame, as they grapple with the evil they come to learn of and their own roles in its continuation. But in the end they too are saved by the empathy and love of Harry and Dumbledore.
In the beginning of the book, Harry is the loneliest he has ever felt. After experiencing true friendship and belonging for the first time in his life he has been transplanted back to his abusive beginnings. What makes this opening so satisfying is the fierceness with which he is saved, the ripping of the bars from his windows and the hilarity of Dursley’s red, spitting face as he flies off with his best friend. It is a small moment of many small moments, where people choose eachother over all else. Voldemort traps the worst of himself in his horcruxes to ensure he survives. But the rest of the characters trap the best of themselves in one another, so that they never forget who they truly are, even in the darkest of times.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Bueno, en realidad releí la versión ilustrada, pero no la encuentro.
Qué puedo decir ? Para mí HP siempre es mi lugar seguro así que con cada relectura me pongo contenta y revivo la sensación de ser chiquita devuelta. Así que esta oportunidad no fue la excepción.
Lo bueno de las relecturas es que cada vez descubris más cosas. En mi caso, tanto en el libro 1 como en el 2 me doy cuenta del tono infantil y de cuento que los caracterizan. También, sobre todo en este tomo descubrí LA cantidad de pistas e información que nos dan que va a ser sumamente útil en los siguientes libros. Solo por dar unos ejemplos, la idea de que Voldermont le dió a Harry algo de él, la mención a Azkaban, datos de hombres lobo, el rol de Lucious Malfoy, el armario evanescence, la relación entre Ron y Hermione, entre muchos otros. Obvio que con el diario del lunes todo es más sencillo.
Respecto a las ilustraciones (leí el ilustrado, pero no lo encuentro para marcar), son hermosas, como siempre. Hubo varias de doble página y eso me encantó, pero si contribuyó a la sensación de que eran menos ilustraciones que en el tomo anterior. Además, de Harry y Ron ya tuvimos ilustraciones de primer plano "presentándolos" y de Hermione todavía no. Así que es algo que estoy esperando con ansias.
Qué puedo decir ? Para mí HP siempre es mi lugar seguro así que con cada relectura me pongo contenta y revivo la sensación de ser chiquita devuelta. Así que esta oportunidad no fue la excepción.
Lo bueno de las relecturas es que cada vez descubris más cosas. En mi caso, tanto en el libro 1 como en el 2 me doy cuenta del tono infantil y de cuento que los caracterizan. También, sobre todo en este tomo descubrí LA cantidad de pistas e información que nos dan que va a ser sumamente útil en los siguientes libros. Solo por dar unos ejemplos, la idea de que Voldermont le dió a Harry algo de él, la mención a Azkaban, datos de hombres lobo, el rol de Lucious Malfoy, el armario evanescence, la relación entre Ron y Hermione, entre muchos otros. Obvio que con el diario del lunes todo es más sencillo.
Respecto a las ilustraciones (leí el ilustrado, pero no lo encuentro para marcar), son hermosas, como siempre. Hubo varias de doble página y eso me encantó, pero si contribuyó a la sensación de que eran menos ilustraciones que en el tomo anterior. Además, de Harry y Ron ya tuvimos ilustraciones de primer plano "presentándolos" y de Hermione todavía no. Así que es algo que estoy esperando con ansias.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated