Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J.K. Rowling is a famous author that wrote many award winning book series. One of these series is the famous Harry Potter series. Also J.K. Rowling is a single jobless mother with a daughter when she was writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Shields 40). Her life, divided into three parts, consists of before and during university, after university, and during Harry Potter. The first part of J.K. Rowling’s life is before and during university. In a hospital, near the city of…

Why Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Was Banned Books are banned for numerous reasons, some are of plausible causes and others not so much. The book I have chosen is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling. I think that she is an amazing author and the Harry Potter series is full of adventure and a world to escape into but, obviously, others think differently. As with all opinions, not everyone will share yours. That seems to be the case as the first Harry Potter book was…

Film Analysis In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter fulfills Joseph Campbell’s trail of the Hero’s Journey. All heroes have a journey they must undertake. Campbell illustrated that all stories and myths have similar layouts and stores structures. This journey is called “The Road of Trials”. Harry Potter follows Campbell's theories, primarily the Initiation: the Road of Trials. When the hero, Harry, has arrived in the new world, the wizarding world, he goes through a number of…

The Prophet for Profit: Motivation of Mainstream Media in the Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series tells an enchanting story about the magical world with the theme of love and death. Though Hogwarts, the school of magic, has been the dream place for millions of readers alike, not all the elements of the wizarding society are desirable. The power-loving Minister of Magic—Cornelius Fudge, leads the Ministry of Magic until the end of the fifth book, the Order of the Phoenix. Though the…

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in J.K. Rowling’s 10 novel series. The book follows Harry Potter as he goes through another year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Spectacles, including a wand fight with Voldemort, an exhibition of flying broomsticks, and many more incidents occupy most of the novel, but behind these events there is a deeper meaning. In the novel, Rowling presents some similar themes and similar issues, specifically issues regarding childhood…

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…

Harry Potter Hero’s Journey In her book series, “Harry Potter” J.K. Rowling took Harry on a hero’s journey. A hero’s journey includes the call to adventure, the refusal of the call, the road to trials, and master of two worlds. The story begins with Harry’s uncle going about his every day routine. He sees a cat that seems to be reading the street sign, it then stares at him as he drives by. As the day goes on, things just get weirder. He sees strangely dressed people, and he thinks he hears them…

“Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth used rhetorical strategies very effectively. Truth used rhetorical strategies effectively because her tone, text structure, figurative language, and the rhetorical devices she used let the audience know what she was feeling and why she was fighting for was she was fighting for. Truth used many rhetorical strategies in her speech but pathos, logos, ethos, allusion, juxtaposition, and pinpointing really made her argument valid and strong. Sojourner Truth’s…

Introduction Background The ‘Harry Potter’ series is arguably one of the most popular book series in history, described by Hoover (2007) as will “having long life because (…) the original readers will share it with their children, a family favourite for a very long time”. Although the series concluded in 2007, Pottermore, the fan-based website which spills small details that Rowling still discusses, received over one billion page views within two weeks of release. (via news.microsoft.com). One…

novels of Harry Potter have attracted the readers of the young generation globally with its powerful cultural charm. And the major theme in the works is the core value of Christian spirit, the basic Christian thoughts in Harry Potter is analyzed deeply in the essay, to summarize the ideological connotation of the religions thought in Harry Potter and The Philosopher 's Stone (hereinafter Harry Potter) through analyzing the works in depth. The influence of Christianity is implied in Harry…