Outside reading - Harry Potter and a Henderson Guitar

 Dr. Redick expressed a story about a time when he was hiking the AT with students and came across his old friend named Wayne Henderson.  Mr. Henderson is a guitarist but an even better guitar maker.  His hand crafted guitars are requested specially from celebrities and artists all around America.  He says the secret to creating a great guitar is the wood.  He uses different types of wood for different places on the guitar.  This is important because we interpret the essence of this narrative as Henderson being the focal point of the story, where he believes it all has to do with the wood itself.  During one of the lectures, we talked about hermeneutics being the art of interpretation and how we find meaning in a text. In the first Harry Potter book, the reader uses hermeneutics to understand what the main point of the story is.  As a kid, I thought a schoolboy fought off the bad guy to save his friends and then that was it.  As an adult, I see that there is much more to learn from young Harry in this first book.  This book emphasizes the unjust social class system that is ongoing because of the hierarchy of high class citizens who have a large influence in that society's pop culture.  The rich, full blooded wizard named Draco Malfoy picks on the poor and half/no blooded wizards at the school he attends just because of how they are born or what possessions they do or do not have.  After reading this book, I realized that the interpretation J.K. Rowling wanted the reader to pick out was that discrimination, harassment, and prejudices will not get you anywhere worth going in life if you do that to other people.