Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange is well discussed in the fourth chapter. Anthony Burgess, the British novelist is considered to be one of the newest and most talented of the younger British writers. Many critics have rated his novel A Clockwork Orange as one of Burgess' most brilliant achievements. The ability of an individual to make moral choices is the major theme of A Clockwork Orange. The society presented by Burgess deals with experiments and behaviour modification techniques on…

“The Tale of Three Brothers” was first introduced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. In the story arc, one of the main character, Hermione Granger, narrates the story from her copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. These tales were commonly read to children as bedtimes stories because they’re “told to amuse rather than instruct” (Rowling 409). “The Three of Three Brothers” relates how three brothers cheated Death…

notice,”(11). Dumbledore explains what happened with the Potters, and he remains sane even after recent events. Voldemort is so vicious and powerful that many wizards flinch at his name and will not say it. I like this quote because it displays the main conflict of the Harry Potter series. Also, Dumbledore remains calm during the events, which says a lot about his character. “‘Harry -- yer a wizard’,”(50). Hagrid is the first person to tell Harry that he is a wizard. Throughout Harry’s life,…

It all begins with the protagonist, Harry Potter. The 14 year old boy wizard is known as the “Boy who lived.” Harry defeated a very evil and murderous Dark wizard, Voldemort, when he was just a infant and left the fierce battle with no injury other than a lightning shaped scar. He attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Potter only just discovered 3 years ago that he was a son of two wizards, James and Lily Potter. Voldemort and his Death Eaters , or his followers, play the part…

I think I read this book in a span of two days. TWO DAYS! In a book nerd's dictionary, that's pretty much a synonym for "SO KICK-ASS I FLEW THROUGH THE PAGES", and no, it's not just because of the cover, which I agree is absolutely mesmerizing. To be honest, this is my first book by this author (I had wanted to read SEKRET before, but I haven't gotten the chance to buy it yet... a travesty, I know, don't remind me), so I didn't know what quite to expect. Would it be purple-prose-y? Would it be…

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, written by Roald Dahl in 1994, introduce us to the main protagonist character of the book right from the start, Charlie Bucket. In short, Charlie comes from a poor family with a once in a lifetime opportunity to enter the much-coveted Wonka Chocolate factory that Willy Wonka shut off to the world for years, along with 4 other lucky children. The book depicts Charlie as a filial and obedient boy, unlike the other 4 children deemed as rotten. As a result, their…

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling is a great fantasy book that focuses on a trio of kids that are brought into and brand new world full of magic and danger. Theirs Harry Potter the boy who lived from being cursed with death by a terrible wizard named Voldemort whose name struck fear in everyone to the point they never say his name, but due to the curse the wizard was vanquished as the spell ricocheted and hit him, this leads to his trademarked scar that everyone in the…

The Evolution of the Trope of Flying In Morrison’s Song of Solomon Flying is a trope which is depicted prominently in Toni Morrison’s book Song of Solomon. This trope appears in the book as a branch of magic realism and it provides the magical element within harshness and tepid realism. The trope unites all the different elements of the story together throughout the entire book. Obviously, flying is an important clue in the book and it is used for both literally and figuratively as a way to…

Taste in film is a very personal thing and can say more about a person than they can say about themselves. For example, if someone were to glance through my movie collection, they would learn a lot more about me than with any journal or scrapbook that could be kept. Even I can see more of myself contained in these plastic cases than I can in old photographs. Revisiting old favorites jogs memories that probably never eves made it into an elementary school English assignment. Early in life I was…

now. The Hunger Games is the first novel in Suzanne Collins trilogy. The novel was released in 2008 and became popular fast. The trilogy has sold more than 65 million copies and that only in the U.S. The series are ranked second, only beaten by Harry Potter. The genre is drama, adventure, science fiction and action. The main characters is Katniss Everdeen played by Jennifer Lawrence and Peeta Mellark played by Josh Hutcherson. The movie takes place in the future America, in the nation Panem, a…