QUESTIONS ON CATEGORY 1 – TEXT ANALYSIS

[a_reader2003]

(1.1) Meta-themes
Are these working for people? Personally, I have not used them very 
much so far. They evolved from the boiling down I did of the FAQ 
topic list way back. They may be too vague to be useful.

(1.2) Military strategy
See question under character's – maybe 1.2.1 & 1.2.2 should be moved 
to DD and Voldie categories. 1.2.3 (Hogwart's defences) could go 
under Hogwarts in section 4; 1.2.4 (spying, espionage & betrayal) 
could become a subset of 1.1.3 (friendship, love & loyalty).

(1.3.2) Narrative style
Do we need more categories for arguments about whether the books are 
well-written or not? Ie, separate from whether or not they are 
children's books (which belongs in section 4).

(1.3.4) Foreshadowing, clues & misdirection
How are people using this? I have not used it yet, as have not come 
across posts overtly discussing how she uses this technique in the 
books.

(1.8 – 1.12) Book/chapter contents
I have been trying to code as much as possible to individual chapter 
discussions, where arguments have raged as to why, how, where things 
happened. But I also code the discussion to the main characters as 
well. However, have had to look up the chapters a lot to ensure I put 
posts in the right place !

(1.13) Predictions
Do we need sub-categories within any of the book categories listed 
here? Whilst 1.13.1 Book 4/GOF is likely to be fairly finite, as the 
predicting had to end as soon as the book was published, mid-way in 
the Yahoo Club postings, the number of predictions put into the other 
categories are likely to be huge.

Second question is what is the difference between a prediction and 
just pure speculation on what might happen in future books? A 
particular difficulty I have had is speculation on what might happen 
at the end of the series. I have been coding this to 1.13.4 (Book 7), 
plus other codes depending on the nature of the theory. A further 
complication is when this includes discussion of plot development in 
a literary sense, ie what is likely from the POV of are the books for 
children or not, meta-themes of good/evil.