Harry Potter

In the book A Good and Happy Child, Justin Evans uses the idea of a demonic presence to suggest the idea that there are sources of evil in everyday life, for example, the significant theme of technology in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Both authors present pernicious issues that cause obsession, emotional turmoil, and strained relationships in the lives of the protagonists. Also, each book introduces the malevolent subjects as things that are supposed to be helpful to the…

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the producers of the well-known Comedy Central show "South Park", which first aired in 1997 and is the most popular show on Comedy Central ever since. The show is quite successful, given that it is one of the highest rated shows on Comedy Central for 18 seasons and will continue to air until at least 2016. One of the main characters, Kyle, is inspired by the co-creator Matt Stone. Kyle has an auburn Jewfro resembling Stone’s, which Kyle prefers to hide. Stone…

The idea of banning books has been around for decades. These types of book banned even include your favorite child hood bedtime stories. Of Mice and Men is a classic book with an important meaning written throughout its pages. Throughout the years many people have tried to ban Of Mice and Men due the controversial issues displayed in the book. These issues allow readers to take a look through the lens of the era in which the book is written. It teachers about the hardships of race, sexism,…

Introduction Christian themes and metaphors are common in literature because of their universal renown, but depending on how these are used and referenced in the work, they convey different meanings and have different effects on the reader. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway are two works of literature that use Christian allegories. In Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, four children venture into the magic world of…

china with the newspaper, causing the crumpled toad-like face of the former Head of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission to assume an outraged expression as it lay underneath a Muggle soup bowl. It was, in a sense, a cathartic experience. And Harry had made sure to buy extra copies. The trip to her parents’ house had been his idea – between worrying about Remus’ condition and mulling over the unresolved situation with Ron, who had chosen to stay at the Burrow for a few days, sleep never came…

At the beginning of this project, coming up with a theme was quite easy but connecting them all together using different genres seemed like an almost impossible task. As I thought more about it, I decided to use the green light as my theme because I felt like the light was a big part of the book since it represents an unattainable dream or future. In this box, you are gonna see four different types of genres such as a found poem, a newspaper article about Gatsby’s parties, a drawing, and a movie…

Houdini was very very famous escape artist.For an example,he was really unique because of how different he was from other escape artist .In the text it says no one before has so completely defined the art of escape as Harry Houdini. Houdini is popular because he was unique because he always tried dangerous tricks that nobody,he was also different the other escape artist ever did and was very very good at all his magic tricks.Most famous people were not magicians.That is why he was so good…

Have you ever felt like you were being watched, or just wanted to solve a mystery? Have you ever wanted to be friends with gnomes, or ride a unicorn? Well, that’s exactly what you can do in Gravity Falls. I think everyone should watch Gravity Falls because there’s mystery, funny characters, and a mysterious background story. The most exciting thing is the mystery. The two main characters, Dipper and Mabel, go around the town and solve mysteries like what zombies, gnomes, and mermaids are, and…

You don't need to know anything about chess, New Zealand or Genesis Potini to fall under the spell of "The Dark Horse." This may have as much to do with the real-life Potini as with the actor who becomes him in this loving portrait: "Fear the Walking Dead" star Cliff Curtis. His immersive portrayal makes Potini fascinating and unpredictable in every frame of "The Dark Horse." The real guy was just as interesting. It was a 2003 documentary about the New Zealand chess champ (nicknamed the Dark…

The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. After a string of odd events, 12-year old Percy Jackson discovers that he is the son of the almighty Greek god Poseidon and is sent to a camp for demigods (people who are half-human and half-god). During this time, the gods were bickering about Zeus’ missing weapon, known as the Lightning bolt, accusing each other of stealing it until they find out about Percy. He becomes the prime suspect and…