Sarah Huller
Ms. Landram
Informative Paper
December 17th ,2016
J.K. Rowling: Perseverance Not Failure
Could you even imagine living on little to no money, having no job, and being a single mother? J.K. Rowling is a very popular British author that wrote best-selling books but only after being rejected many times by publishing companies, she finally got her book published, and she then got out of welfare, got over her divorce, and became the 13th richest woman in Britain (richer than the queen).
J.K. Rowling had a lot of things that were difficult to get over in her life. She was trying to publish her first book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" but she got rejected many times (J.K. Rowling). When Rowling first came up with the …show more content…
Rowling had to live on what is called welfare (Welfare: "Financial support given to people in need"). What made this harder was "... struggling to support Jessica and herself on welfare" (J.K. Rowling). Jessica is Rowling's daughter and it was hard to take care of her the
right way. There was a reason she was living on welfare, she had/has a teaching degree but couldn’t find a job. She was almost homeless! ("World Book Student | Article Page.") Before all of this happened it, all started with her ex-husband “…the Portuguese journalist Jorge Arantes” (J.K. Rowling). They were married for three years and had Jessica in 1993. Through all the troubles and obstacles, she got over her divorce and managed to get out of …show more content…
In this case J.K. Rowling made millions from her book series and movies. “By the summer of 2000, the first three Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban earned approximately $480 million in three years, with over 35 million copies in print in 35 languages.” (J.K. Rowling). All the money she made from the books was way less than the money she got from the movies that were based on the books. “A film version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, directed by Chris Columbus and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, was released in November 2001. In its opening weekend in the U.S., the film debuted on a record 8,200 screens and smashed the previous box-office record, earning an estimated $93.5 million ($20 million more than the previous record holder, 1999's The Lost World: Jurassic Park). It ended the year as the top-grossing movie of 2001.” (J.K. Rowling). Even though Harry Potter was a/is very popular book(s) that didn’t stop Rowling from writing more novels. She “…continues to work on more written works. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a collection of five fables mentioned in the Harry Potter book series, was released on November 4, 2008—at a tea party for 200 schoolchildren at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.” (J.K.
Ms. Landram
Informative Paper
December 17th ,2016
J.K. Rowling: Perseverance Not Failure
Could you even imagine living on little to no money, having no job, and being a single mother? J.K. Rowling is a very popular British author that wrote best-selling books but only after being rejected many times by publishing companies, she finally got her book published, and she then got out of welfare, got over her divorce, and became the 13th richest woman in Britain (richer than the queen).
J.K. Rowling had a lot of things that were difficult to get over in her life. She was trying to publish her first book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" but she got rejected many times (J.K. Rowling). When Rowling first came up with the …show more content…
Rowling had to live on what is called welfare (Welfare: "Financial support given to people in need"). What made this harder was "... struggling to support Jessica and herself on welfare" (J.K. Rowling). Jessica is Rowling's daughter and it was hard to take care of her the
right way. There was a reason she was living on welfare, she had/has a teaching degree but couldn’t find a job. She was almost homeless! ("World Book Student | Article Page.") Before all of this happened it, all started with her ex-husband “…the Portuguese journalist Jorge Arantes” (J.K. Rowling). They were married for three years and had Jessica in 1993. Through all the troubles and obstacles, she got over her divorce and managed to get out of …show more content…
In this case J.K. Rowling made millions from her book series and movies. “By the summer of 2000, the first three Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban earned approximately $480 million in three years, with over 35 million copies in print in 35 languages.” (J.K. Rowling). All the money she made from the books was way less than the money she got from the movies that were based on the books. “A film version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, directed by Chris Columbus and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, was released in November 2001. In its opening weekend in the U.S., the film debuted on a record 8,200 screens and smashed the previous box-office record, earning an estimated $93.5 million ($20 million more than the previous record holder, 1999's The Lost World: Jurassic Park). It ended the year as the top-grossing movie of 2001.” (J.K. Rowling). Even though Harry Potter was a/is very popular book(s) that didn’t stop Rowling from writing more novels. She “…continues to work on more written works. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a collection of five fables mentioned in the Harry Potter book series, was released on November 4, 2008—at a tea party for 200 schoolchildren at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.” (J.K.