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“We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.” J.K Rowling stated in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This powerful and inspiring quote establishes on how all humans make mistakes and they are not always perfect. It illustrates that the decisions one makes will help decide what kind of future will they face. In addition, this excerpt typifies the key to any situation by showing when times get tough, people need to…

According to a recent study, Harry Potter is the most popular watched movies series in the world. We all know that the Harry Potter movies are based on the books. So what does it mean? Is the plot and characters in the movies are exactly same as those in book? While some people get angry if a movie differs from the book that inspired it, others support a filmmaker’s right to make changes. The movie, Smoke Signals (1998), directed by Chris Eyre, is based on Sherman Alexie’s story, “This Is How…

To Stop a Halloween Thief The boy's name is brady. Brady is a fourteen year old eighth grader who is passing out candy on Halloween. Alongside him is his best friend Cam. The two boys have been passing out candy for about an hour now and they were starting to get tired when they saw a couple of Juniors driving in a pickup truck snatching candy from the little kids on the street. Brady instantly recognized the three guys. The driver was Tommy,a starter on the high school football team. The other…

My favorite hero story is Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. The hero of this story is a twelve-year-old named Perseus Jackson. While on a field trip, Percy encounters an ancient monster called a Fury who accuses Percy of stealing Zeus’s lightning bolt. This is Percy’s call to adventure. At the end of the school year, Percy is escorted home by Grover, who, as a satyr, represents Percy’s supernatural aid. Later, on a beach vacation, Percy’s mother, Sally, encounters Grover and decides that…

No other book had influenced adults and children equally as much as Harry Potter series did in the last two decades. A boy with a scar on his forehead, with his faith as distressful as possible. A school located in Scottish Highlands which happens to be the best school of witchraft and wizardry in the world. Harry Potter is the impeccable protagonist of the society we live in. According to the outstanding writer John Granger, the use of alchemical symbolism in conjuction with a ring…

comparing and contrasting essay the Grim brothers: The Grim brothers is about a boy that is asked by a wizard to go into a manhole and bring him back a lamp for a silver penny and he does but the wizard asks him to give him the lamp and he doesnt so the wizard locks him in the manhole and drops a ring then he marrrys and princess then the wizard found out that aladdin got rich out of no where so he trades aladdins wife old lamp for new lamp then the wizard takes all of his belongings and then…

The Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was: Analysis The story of “The Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was” fits a common structure in fairy tales – it is a coming-of-age story, a story that starts with a child that, by the end of the story, becomes an adult. It follows the tale of an ignorant younger brother, whose only skill he wants to learn is how to get “the creeps.” He goes through three trials filled with death and supernatural beings, which eventually earns him a bride and gold.…

Prophecy Orbs In Relation To Characters and Events In Harry Potter and To Real-World Politics Harry Potter by J.K Rowling contains a variety of magical elements and devices. One of these devices are the prophecy orbs mainly featured in the fifth book of the series, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. These orbs have connections not only to the characters in the series, but also to the politics of the real world. The prophecy orbs are small balls of spun glass that contain a white,…

“The Tale of Three Brothers” was first presented 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 are “told to amuse rather than instruct” (Rowling 409). “The Three of Three Brothers” relates how three brothers cheated Death…

The character with the most leadership that I noticed was Hiccup. He has a lot of pressure on him being Stoick the Vast’s son, and he’s not really a Viking at all. Watching How To Train Your Dragon is like reading a Mark Twain novel; you watch the boy grow up. In the beginning of the movie Hiccup is more of a burden to the village than helpful. Nevertheless at the end Hiccup leads the other teenagers in Dragon Training to save the villagers from the dragon’s nest. That is a big turning point…