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the appropriateness of these novels with values education in the curriculum area of religious education. The third research refers to Darius Callier’s Role of WomenFemale Characters in HP:SS which is done in 2008. Callier’s research is done on the same novel. It aims to identify marginalization for womenfemale characters, the womenfemale characters empowerment and their roles in the supreme authority. Thus, Callier’s focuses on the female characters such as Hermione Granger, Molly Weasley and Minerva McGonagall. However, this research on Child Empowerment in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is different from Afitri’s, Lennard’s and Callier’s research because the researcher tries to establish analysis by emphasizing in finding problems face by children, the process of child empowerment and the influences of the child empowerment through understanding and analyzing four children characters in the novel: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ronald Weasley and Neville Longbottom. This research differs from Afitri ’s research because it focuses on glorifying their problems as children, explaining the existence the process of child empowerment, and revealing changes as the result of the process of child empowerment . This research differs from Lennard’s research because it analyses the importance of child empowerment existence not only in Harry Potter but also other children characters. It is also dedicated to know children’s position and situation in the novel not the readers which are in the outside of the novel. In addition, the research is different compared with 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