The Need For Change In Harry Potter By J. K. Rowling

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One of the hardest things to do in life is to realize that something needs to be changed and to complete the change. It is difficult to understand sometimes, that there is need for change; many people will not even know that they are wrong and need changing or be against change completely. But it is important to continuously create change and understand why change is important. There are three reasons that I believe would cause someone to struggle to create change: The environment around the person changes, they become more educated, and they can no longer suffer in their position. The environment around someone can constantly change, whether it is the physical environment like our ecosystem or the environment of world and people around them. …show more content…

Rowling, we can see the need to change because of their environments constantly changing. One big example is the three main characters Harry, Ron and Hermione, having to go around finding Horcruxes in order to kill their villain Lord Voldemort, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Their environment constantly changes not only because they have to keep moving to find the next Horcrux, but also because their friends are changing too. There is even one point where Ron leaves the group, now there are many theories and background stories as to why Ron actually left, but part of it had to do with his lack of change, he could no longer go forward. He later started the struggle to make the change, to continue forward and finish what needed to be accomplished. Here it requires the knowledge that things are constantly changing around you, and if you don’t change with it, you can get left …show more content…

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, we can see an example where someone becomes more educated and strives to change himself and hopefully the institutions around him. The story is set in a different almost utopian world, where the main character Jonas lives. After he comes of age, he learns what his job and role in live will be, which turns out to be the person who learns all about how the society use to live and what the outside world would be like. After he learns all of this, he sees how his “normal” community is wrong and that things need to be changed, but he knows that they will not be changed by the current people running the community. Out of the community there are only the two people who are educated of the past, and therefore are the only ones who know things need to be changed. They see the need for change and want to struggle for this change, because they are the educated ones, they feel that if everyone else knew what they did, they would want change as

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