Background Joanne Kathleen Rowling as known as JK.Rowling is novelist that was born on July 31, 1965, in Yate, England. She became an international literary when she launches her fantasy novel first sequels of “Harry Potter”, in 1999 and that novel has 7 sequels. I would like to analyze the first sequels of Harry Potter, titled “Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone” because this novel is the one of the best-seller novel in the world and suitable to analyze. Also this novel is really excited and one of modern British literary. I want to analyze about the character and plot of this novel. Because there are many character who interesting and this plot of this novel that make me decided to analyze. Firstly, I want to analyze all of series of Harry Potter, but it is too many to explain. So I just explain the first series because I think in the first series is easy to analyze, every characters is details to introduce and the story is easy to understand. This phenomenal novel I think is not good for academic, it just a popular novel. But for full fill my task in Survey of Modern British Literature, I feel not bad to explain about some contains of this novel.
Analysis I think plot of this novel is flash-back and forward because this story start from the middle and the past is telling while story told. It looks in the summary that I wrote.
Before the story begin, Voldemort the most evil wizard, murder Harry’s parents and he is disappears after try to kill Harry but failed. Then Professor Dumbledore, Prof. McGonnagal, and Hagrid placing Harry in care his aunt and his uncle, Vernon and Petunia Dursley (not witch). During ten years their boy and them treat Harry hard. Simply, when Harry’s eleventh birthday, a letter come for Harry but his uncle, Vernon burning that letter. As effect, there are many same letter come to that home and forcing them to flee to little island. At