Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

the Dark Arts, emerging as Lord Voldemort, the most powerful dark wizard of all time. He set out to kill Harry after hearing a prophecy about him being defeated by Harry. Lily Potter (Harry’s mother) gave her life to protect Harry when he was 1 years old. Because of that act, Harry was provided the ultimate protection, causing Voldemort’s killing curse to backfire and hit himself instead. Harry had escaped the greatest dark wizard of all time with nothing…

My name is Ayla (eye-la), I come from a country with no name. Shrouded in mystery and surrounded by fog, lay seven grand kingdoms and beings that can only be found in my world’s fairytales. Magic and beasts fill the land and monsters fill the sea, protecting this small country and closing us off from the rest of the world. Everyone here has magic flowing through their veins, the more power someone has depends on ancestry. What powers do I have? Well, magic allows me to learn what I see and hear,…

The story Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling, has both explicit and implicit themes present in the story. Some explicitly expressed themes are good and evil, with the clash of different groups within the story, mostly between Slytherin House and Gryffindor, because the way the author describes the characters on each side, as well as the ever-present theme of the young and innocent against the old generation which is evil and destructive. There is also implicitly theme of…

figurative language creates a whole new world for a child. Beatrix Potter was a famous British author and illustrator who brought generations of children to love the simple tales she told through imagery as well as simplistic story telling. Not only was she a children's writer, but she was a woman who believed in conservatism and had strong views and opinions that were not the norm for society in that point in time. Beatrix Potter, a British author and illustrator, is best known for various…

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first novel in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, tells a story about the importance of combating evil despite the consequences. For this reason, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone serves as a book of great importance and has greatly affected me. During their pursuit of protecting the sorcerer's stone from professor Quirrell, and the evil wizard Voldemort, Harry and his friends face physical and mental challenges, as well as risk the chance of…

In the book, “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone”, Rowling uses topics that relate to other pieces of literary work, specifically it connects to the poem, ”Escape to Freedom” in both of them the topic of freedom and restrictions are covered. In the book Rowling refers to how Harry is trapped in his Aunt and Uncle's house and he is not allowed to do normal things because he is different. The author states, “The room held no sign that the other boy lived in the house[...] had a dream about a…

The Harry Potter novel series is extremely explicit when introducing new characters. This allows the readers to truly imagine the characters being introduced. The most interesting thing that has been introduced about the main character is the reason the antagonist killed the protagonists parents. This answers the question of why Harry’s parents were killed. This shed light on the subject and made the readers understand why this happened. This was revealed at the end of the novel to make readers…

Characters like Anastasia Steele and Bella Swan, however, are problematic because they are female characters who are defined by, and submissive to the male characters of their respective books. While Hermione Granger is not the sole center of the Harry Potter series, she is central to them. Hermione is never portrayed as a static entity as many Disney princesses are, but rather, a complex character who emulates a positive, feminist role model that many teenage girls can look up to. Young girls…

The widely accepted “The Hero’s Journey” theory is devised and arranged into stages by Joseph Campbell in 1947; Further, it was interpreted and adapted by Christopher Vogler, which can be illustrated through “Lord of The Rings” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”. This is simple but powerful theory which eclipses these films and continues to captivate the audiences. Overtime, for both these films we see how the hero’s characters develop. They become more selfless and understand the…

Analyiss of the Harry Potter and the philosophers stone The storyline of the book Book starts by telling about Harrys muggle(non-wizard) family for quite a while. In my opinion there was too much of it and most of it was totally irrelevant. Then some weird things start happening, shooting stars all over Britian and owls flying by daylight just to name a few. Finally our main character, Harry Potter comes onto the stage. Two legendary wizards and one goofy half-giant called Hagrid leave Harry to…