Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Mike Thaler was born October 8, 1963 in Los Angeles, California. As a child, Mike was always very creative, he enjoyed modeling clay, drawing pictures and writing. He drew cartoons for the school annual and for his school paper at the University of California. He drove from California to New York to begin his career drawing cartoons for adults. Until one day he was contacted by his first editor Ursula Nordstrom after she saw one of his cartoons, she reached out to him to write a children's…

In spite of Kreacher’s mistreatment of Hermione, when he recoils after she attempts to comfort him, “The Mudblood touched Kreacher, he will not allow it, what would his mistress say?”, she continues to defend him when he punishes himself. (The Deathly Hallows 162, ch.10) “When discussing the house-elves' representation, (…) Rowling’s depiction of Dobby and his fellow elves contains uncomfortable echoes of many of the stereotypes held by whites of enslaved African Americans" (Horne 80-81 qtd in.…

ATTENTION GRABBING SENTENCE HERE. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien was written in 1954. It follows Bilbo Baggins' adoptive son, Frodo, on his quest to destroy the Ring of power. After Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday in the Shire, he disappears and goes on an adventure by himself. He ends up staying with the elves. Before he left, Bilbo wrote a will that proclaimed that all of his belongings would by passed onto Frodo, including his ring, which made him invisible. Gandalf the Grey, a…

see this in the text, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone written by J.K Rowling in 1995. Throughout book, there is many examples of rivalry. One of the examples is when, Harry uses his word when competing against Malfoy. In the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone, Harry portrays rivalry against Malfoy in the novel through his words, and actions. The theme of rivalry, is shown through between Harry and Malfoy. One of the examples is by Malfoy when he threatens harry by words. ‘I’d…

HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD IT TAKE TO MAKE YOU A KILLER? One day a total stranger walks into your home and offers you $100K in cash. The only condition is that if you do, someone will die. The twist is, that person has killed before. Would you take the money? When he's not working for the government Donovan Creed, practiced seducer, ruthless assassin, runs a special line in contract killings. Right now he's involved in a crazed social experiment, but he's finding it hard to reconcile with his…

Assessment Task 1A 10% “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” Imagine you are Hugo Cabret, you have lost your father, live inside the walls of a train station, always being cautious when suddenly everything changes. Hugo Cabret is an interesting book with many plots, and twists. In this book the idea of mystery and secrets is explored. Hugo has many secrets piecing the story into a curious…

Nicholas Sparks is a well-known romance author whose novels almost never disappoint, considering all of his books have been New York Times best sellers. One of the books, The Notebook, was turned into a movie. Even though The Notebook isn’t the only movie inspired by his best-selling novels, I think it was the most popular and hands down the best movie. Sparks wrote The Notebook in only a short period of six months. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams are the two main characters in the movie.…

Percy Jackson: Harry Potter: Ideas: Mist Train Station Gods Council of Wizards Different Magic 1. Compare and contrast how authors use the same or different themes in a setting. Love Percy Jackson’s fatal flaw is love Family Versions of reality Mist Wizards authority Identity Compare and contrast how authors use the same or different themes in a setting. Rick Riordan’s book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and J.K Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone both…

Personality Traits Even though the series falls under the genre of fantasy, its popularity may be due to J.K. Rowling’s ability to create such realistic and relatable characters in spite of their fantastical surroundings. The characters throughout the Harry Potter series are very engaging because they are able to remind us of ourselves or someone we know. We have all had a teacher or boss who reminds of Dolores Umbridge; or how about a friend who could be a bit of a know-it-all like Hermione…

In the book, “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone” the author uses conflict as the main literary element of the story, in the current event of a school shooting in Oregon it also connects to conflict. In the book, Rowling uses different characters and emotions to create a conflict between them. In this book Voldemort is after the stone and if he got it he would control the world of wizards and make an Elixir of life. As stated by the author, “If Snape gets hold of the Stone, Voldemort's coming…