Magic

Near the end of this semester, Dr. Mitchell-Buck asked us why magic in books is so well liked? Why are Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter so important to society? Well after taking this class I feel the reason magic has such a big impact on literature nowadays is the escapism that it gives off. Magic has this idea behind it that it is unobtainable in our own world, and being the greedy society we are we all want that which we cant have. Its common psychology, like when you give a ball to one child, the other will want that ball just because the other has it. Then when the child gets the ball he doesn't even want it anymore. That's what magic is to us, we want it because we cant have it, but if we did get it we would tire of it very quickly. Magic has always been this great thing that seems to be so fantastical, but I think that is only because we don't have it. there are many things we do have in the world that are pretty fantastical them selves but because we can see them every day they don't seem so great. Take a rainbow for example, do you even know how a rainbow is made? Light refracts off of rain drops thus producing every color of the visible light spectrum. If you don't think that is one of the most magical things then something is wrong. But of course, since rainbows happen all the time most people just pass by them with out a second glance. Only things that are out of the ordinary are seen as special, and thus seen as better than the ordinary. That is what magic gives to these books, they give a look into an out of the ordinary world that people can imagine they live in. People want to escape to these worlds to change up the mundane life they are living. Magic, the final frontier.