Comparing Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone And Star Wars

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone , a book that almost every child worldwide has sitting on their bookshelf and Star Wars: new hope a movie that has captured the eyes of millions , has multitudes of differences yet the similarities are striking. Most stories follow the same mythic pattern. Every movie seems to have a hero and every book seems to have a villain. According to the archetype notes these are archetypes (the hero, the villain, the mentor ), a hero starts in the everyday world, he receives a call to adventure, then a mentor appears when he enters the special world to guide him into his newfound abilities; later on, he fights a series of lesser bad guys to test his skill until finally he faces the villain. He seems to fail, but then he comes back, overthrowing the reign of evil and restoring the balance in the world. …show more content…
The hero in sorcerer's stone is Harry Potter and in Star wars the hero is Luke Skywalker. Harry is the hero because Voldemort (the villain) try to kill him when he was young. In the Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone it states "He'll be famous - a legend - I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future every child in our world would know his name." (Pg.13) The reason why he is consider a "legend" is because Voldemort disappeared after he tried killing Harry. They are both the young men from the provinces because they were both hero's who were raised by their aunts and uncles and they were raised away from where they were suppose to