Comparing the Families in Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Az

Comparing the Families in Rowlings chivvy Potter and the captive of Azkaban and Hobans The Mouse and His ChildCreating worlds of their own, with particular kinds of boundaries separating them from the larger world, families ideally provide encouragement and protection for each of their members (Handel, xxiv). In J.K. Rowlings beset Potter and the captive of Azkaban, however, the Dursleys and Aunt Marge fail to fulfill their roles as rags primary caregivers. In Russell Hobans The Mouse and His Child, the military chaplain mouse is unable to give his child all that he require and longs for. In these two childrens stories, the expectation that families will provide strong-arm support, frantic support, and encouragement for their children is non met.In get to Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the orphaned chafe is physically neglected by his only breathing relatives, the Dursleys. Harrys Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and cousin Dudley think that by endorsing Harrys non-exi stence in their lives, their fear of non-Muggles would disappear. Treating Harry like a whacky animal, the frightened Dursleys physically confine Harry to their home and do not allowing their nephew any contact with the outside world. When Harry finally runs away from the Dursleys, he panics because his family never gives him Muggle money. While forcing Harry to stay indoors, the Dursleys also encourage Harry to stay out of their way, which Harry is only too happy to do (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 24). Shunning communication and distancing themselves physically from Harry, the Dursleys fail at being the loving family that Harry needs and craves. By giving Harry teentsy to eat and old clothes to wear, the Dursleys continue to treat Harry as n... ...ting and abusing him. In The Mouse and His Child, the father mouse is fond of his little son, but he is inept at keeping his family of two stable. cosmos a passive and pessimistic parent, the father mouse, like Harrys aunt and uncle, fail at providing the mouse child with physical support, emotional support, and moral encouragement. Although they are family, the Dursleys and the mouse father provide a nonadaptive setting for Harry and for the mouse child, forcing their children to grow up painfully faster. works CitedHandel, G. Introduction to the first edition, 1967. In The Psychosocial Interior of the Family. Ed. G. Handel and G.G. Whitchurch. tonic York Aldine de Gruyter, 1994. xxiii-xxx.Hoban, Russell. The Mouse and His Child. New York Harper & Row, 1967.Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Vancouver Raincoast Books, 2000.