Callier’s because it focuses on both male and female children characters. In conclusion, the researcher can propose the novelty of this research by
comparing with those previous relevant researches.
D. Theoretical Framework
In order to help in understanding this research on
Child Empowerment in
J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the theoretical framework is needed to guide and understand the analysis according to the
researcher’s way of thinking. It is started from the theories: children’s literature and child empowerment which are used to analyze the novel.
It begins with the theory of children’s literature. The use of children’s
literature is to explain the children’s positions and the representation of their
childhoo d. In fact, children’s literature has some aims. Those aims are to equip
children with “tools” to understand and enter the world better and to place them the in higher position. Thus, the „good’ children’s literature has to
present children characters for children as the readers with the proper representation. The proper representation should be done by putting them in
the higher position and providing them with trust and power. The aims of children’s literature are in line with the aims of child
empowerment theory. Thus, the co mbination between children’s literature and
child empowerment is useful to make children aware with their conditions, situations, powers and abilities. Child empowerment can work hand in hand
with children’s literature to critic any didactic literature for children. Thus, this
novel is also analyzed by using this child empowerment theory. The child empowerment theory is broken down into four categories such as kinds,
factors, impacts and disempowerments. The kinds of children empowerment refers to the identification of those kinds of empowerment applied in the
novel. In addition, the factors and the impacts of child empowerment can be analyzed to understand the influence of child empowerment to child characters
in the novel. Meanwhile, the disempowerments can be used to understand child empowerment better.
Yet, this research tries to analyze four children characters out of all children characters in the novel. These characters are Harry Potter, Hermione
Granger, Ronald Weasley and Neville Longbottom. Those characters are chosen because they are the most outstanding ones from others. In addition,
this limitation is very beneficial in order to do deeper analysis and understanding with those characters.
The theoretical framework of this research can be seen in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1: The Scheme of Theoretical Framework Children’s Literature
