in the stories. Child empowerment in children’s literature gives children power
and control to influence the others including adults.
C. The Previous Studies
There are some relevant previous researches which have been done before this research on
Child Empowerment
in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone under the same topic of child empowerment, children’s
literature andor the same novel. Those researches are explained below. The first research which is under the same topic
refers to Afdina Afitri’s Empowerment of Children in Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children which was
done in 2004. Afitri’s research aims to identify the child empowerment and
describe the kinds of empowerment in the novel. In addition, Afitri’s research
is focused on the main character s’ characterization: thought, action and
feeling, and other characters’ and the author’s comment dedicated to the main
characters in order to analyze the child empowerment in the novel. The second research which is done under the same novel refers to Anthony
Lenn ard’s
Harry Potter and the Quest for Values: How the Boy Wizard Can Assist Young People in Making Choices
which was done in 2007
.
Lennard’s research analyses the Harry Potter series. It focuses on Harry Potter as the
main character in order to assist young readers to feel the aspects in the novel such as choices, power and thinking skills, and influence them to be useful
contributors of the modern world. In addition, Lennard’s research is done to
argue the use of these novels for promoting Christian values and to understand
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
