Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

In her essay “ Because I’m a Girl, I Suppose!”: Gender Lines and Narrative Perspective in Harry Potter, Melanie J. Cordova references Eliza T. Dresang and Elizabeth E. Heilman who regard Hermione’s character as polar opposites, as brave and chivalrous and as bookish yet inconsistently competent, respectively. Cordova then suggests that she views…

“The very substance for the ambitious, is merely the shadow of a dream,” William Shakespeare Imagine waking up on a Sunday, before the alarm has a chance to sound. As the day goes on, challenges are being thrown, but you seem to overcome them with passion, and never run out of ideas. Now, imagine waking up on a Sunday, full of distaste and annoyance. As the day goes on, frustration levels build up until you reach your breaking point. A world where your career is chosen for you, or you have a…

villains to get what they deserve. This refers to the idea of poetic justice. When poetic justice is served within literature, it is extremely satisfying to a reader. It is safe to say that in the novels Tale of Despereaux, The Ruins of Gorlan and Harry Potter poetic justice is quite evident. At the start, Despereaux is looked down upon for his strange behaviour that does not align with the rest of the mice community. As a punishment, he is exiled to the basement where lies a fate unbeknownst…

To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure; at least through the eyes of one Albus Dumbledore, when he is asked why he doesn’t fear the thought of dying (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 215). “The Seventh Seal”, a film by Ingman Bergman, however, dramatizes death as a character the protagonist interacts with and not simply an unavoidable force a nature to be faced at any given moment. Death walks among man in the blank-and-white film, even if it is only witnessed…

What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Liquorice Wands and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life. “ (107-108). Being that Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is aimed towards children it makes sense that Rowling utilized snacks and junk food to truly showcase the cultural difference through food. Obviously by that point in the story the reader has already noticed…

easy for the two men. Both men came from poor single-parent homes, struggled financially, and went to juvenile hall. Dr. Hunt and Dr. Davis are not the first people to experience hardships that test their resilience. JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, faced many challenges before she could become one of the most successful authors ever. How do Dr. Hunt's and Dr. Davis's hardships compare to Author JK Rowling's? Dr. Rameck Hunt was born on May 1, 1973, in Orange, New…

I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill How can you succeed if you never try? How can you go to your grave knowing that you never tried? Don’t go to your tomb empty. You may not know what paths will work best for you, the only way to discover the right path — is to try. Try and try, until you discover your difference. Try until you learn where you can be a success.…

passed away , at 77 after a fight against pancreatic cancer The man in “The Elephant Man”, the addict Max in “Midnight Express”, the despicable Caligula in “I, Claudius”, the astronaut Kane in “Alien” and Garrick Olivander in “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” died with his boots on, in his home in Norfolk, with his recent paper as father Richard McSorley in “Jackie”, with two unreleased movies and an unfinished project about the life and miracles of Churchil. “I can’t say I’m…

and I began with short stories that grew to become more complex as I got older. The sweet picture book The Gypsy Princess by Phoebe Gilman became Mary Osborne's adventurous The Magic Tree House, which quickly turned into the famous Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone created by J.K Rowling, finally maturing into The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien. When we were reading together, it was just me and her. We could take a break from our high energy household to relax in feelings of…

his character in the biblical text and how these gaps have been filled, and characteristics exaggerated in popular culture. The Dark Knight’s Joker embodies the evilness of Satan, he is deceptive, tricky, murderous, and ‘the master of chaos’ while Harry Potter’s, Voldemort is equally murderous, influential and controlling, he uses magic to manipulate and destroy lives. Although the Joker and Voldemort differ in appearance they are both portrayed as ugly, mirroring the ‘ugliness’ of Satan’s…