Have you ever felt like you live in the shadow of someone. Imagine living your whole life in the shadow of one of the greatest known people in the wizarding world. I personally wouldn't like it. This summer I read the book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child a screenplay written by J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.This book is an "add on" to the well known Harry Potter series. This book follows Harry Potter's children as well as Draco Malfoy's son as they attempt to save the life of Cedric Diggory when he died in the Tri-Wizard tournament 20 years before. They find themselves in a lot of trouble when they try to use a Time Turner hidden within the Ministry of Magic. Even though I did enjoy the book compared to the other stories within the Harry Potter series, I don’t believe that it was truly a good story. Here are three reasons why.
The first reason is that the book is a bit repetitive. For me, reading a play was a different experience when it comes to reading. The characters interact with each other differently, and understanding the book was different when reading each characters name every time. Anyway, my first reason for not thinking that The Cursed Child was not a good story is that it was repetitive. During the book, a potion was used to make characters Scorpious and Albus look like Hermione and Ron. This is repetitive as 3 other books in the series use this “story” to solve the problem. This is a story because when it is found that Hermione is hiding the Time-Turner alongside the alliance of Harry Potter, children find that there is a different layer to her than may seem. Unlike the other books, I knew exactly what was going to happen and it was repetitive. I knew once the time turner was found, something was going to go wrong. When Scorpious travel back into time, and save Cedric along with Delphi Diggory, they are happy, but like every other book there is a twist. In turn, repetitiveness is never fun to read, see or think about making this the first reason I do not like the story.
Adding on to traveling with the time turner, the duo find themselves lost in time because the time turner only gives 5 minutes of traveling back in time. They decide to go back to present day to find out if they had in fact solved the issue and ended up swimming in the lake outside of Hogwarts; well only Scorpious does. He is yet to be greeted by Dolores Umbridge, the headmaster during the fifth book who takes place of Dumbeldore after telling Harry to run a secret organization teaching students magic. She takes him out of the lake and he finds out that Voldemort is running the wizarding world and Harry Potter is dead. This means that Albus isn’t in existence which explains why Scorpious is the only one in the lake. He learns that by saving cedric, Voldemort kills Harry at the maze and therefore Voldemort isn’t killed in the seventh book. This shocked Scorpious and he learns that he must go back and fix it. My second reason is that the book is cheesy as a screenplay. I think that when you look at the story from a “distance” or a summary, it is the exact same as the other books as well as any other book you or I have ever read. To add on to the tacky story, he goes back and ends up just getting into more trouble, as expected. In all, I did enjoy the storyline, but the story within the story was tawdry, corny and just too predictable.
The third and final reason why I believe this story to be “bad” is that the characters didn’t learn a lesson that is worth keeping. At the end of the story Albus is taught to always stick by his father for help and Scorpious is just hugged by his father. As a reader I was expecting more of a moral just like the other books and lots of other books in the world. The lesson I took away was that I shouldn’t trust anybody. For anybody reading the book this is not a lesson that should be taught. For me the story was also too abruptly stopped.
In conclusion, I enjoyed reading the book. But for the three reasons being inferior thoughts, core morals being too brief and repetitiveness, I didn’t like the story that was told. Even for these reasons, I do recommend the book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Jack Marshall
ReplyDeleteThe strongest part of the argument was that the book was repetitive. Ethan compare the book to other books in the series and he also used descriptive words to prove his argument. Ethan said “ During the book, a potion was used to make characters Scorpius and Albus look like Hermione and Ron. This is repetitive as 3 other books in the series use this “story” to solve the problem.” This was a strong argument.
The weakest part of the argument was there was no lesson learned in the story. Ethan did not use many examples from the story to help prove this argument. It was also much shorter than the other body paragraphs in this essay.
Yes, I am convinced not to read this book. With Ethan’s arguments it helped me make my decision much faster. I do not like to read repetitive books, they are boring to me. Ethan proved to me that this book is very repetitive.