Animal Symbolism In Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone

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Descriptive qualitative research attempts to describe systematically a situation, problem, phenomenon, service or program, provide information about living condition of community, or describe attitudes towards an issue. The main objectives will be analyzed by describing the variation of phenomena, situation or attitude towards the research subject. The researcher focuses to find description of observed subject, situation, historical event, and issue of different opinion from different background.

Descriptive qualitative theory helps the researcher to find and interpret the animal symbolism in J.K Rowling’s novels Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, and describe the significances of them. The

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