J. K. Rowling

Joanne Kathleen Rowling wrote the Harry Potter Series; the beloved book of Harry Potter also helped her to progress through her hard times by providing a source of safety by living through her book. After she wrote Harry Potter, the genre of fantasy was improved. Books such as Twilight, Hunger Games, and Divergent came out at a later date("J. K. Rowling", 2000). Rowling published her first Harry Potter book The Philosopher's Stone in 1997 when she was 32. The Philosopher’s Stone was a popular…

The subject of this report is Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J. K. Rowling. It is a story of a young boy named Harry Potter who find out he is a wizard. The story starts with Harry living with his aunt and uncle as his parents were killed when he was baby by a evil and powerful dark wizard named Voldemort. As Harry gets older strange things happen that he can not explain. When Harry is close to turning eleven he receives a letter from a wizarding school but his uncle destroys it before…

their life. Many people look to someone to serve as a model or motivator for their life. Mine happens to be J.K. Rowling because of her persevering in hard times, Patrick Stump for his ability to be humble about everything and Ricky Gervais for his love of animal advocation. These people have inspired me to enjoy the little things in life and not take things for granted. J.K Rowling is the creator of the famous series Harry Potter, but little do people know of the struggles she had before…

In her texts Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince J. K. Rowling explores the journey of her main protagonist’s growth. Throughout both texts Rowling uses a variety of techniques to show how Harry grows from a naïve young boy to a confident young man. The use of third person narration, setting and character development throughout each novel enables readers to see how Harry develops from an inexperienced young wizard to a wizened young man. In the…

you must have made a mistake. I don’t think I can be a wizard”; this doubt which was quickly snuffed out when Hagrid responded by asking, “Never made things happen when you was scared or angry?”, which prompted the epiphany of Harry’s magic power (Rowling…

J.K. Rowling once stated to her agent that, "I know I'm not going to make any money out of it. I know I'm not going to be famous" (Steffens 6). Little did she know that her book would become one of the all-time best-selling books and would appear in bookstores across the world. THESIS STATEMENT!!!! J.K. Rowling had an enjoyable and loving childhood. Her parents, Anne Volant Rowling and Peter Rowling, lived in the town of Yate, England. Peter worked as an aircraft engineer and Anne was a science…

Joanne Rowling, Author of the famed Harry Potter series, was born July 31, 1965 in Yate of the United Kingdom (“J.K.Rowling”). Rowling has grown to be one of the most profoundly known children’s authors of the twenty-first century. The genesis of Rowling’s writing career began at a very young age. Since childhood, Rowling knew that she wanted to be a writer. At primary school, Rowling would entertain her classmates by telling thrilling tales of rabbits and a bee. This quality of storytelling…

As you guys might have been able to tell, I love Harry Potter. Harry Potter is one of the best series ever and the author, J. K. Rowling, is the first author to ever become a billionaire off their series of books. It truly is a magical book that follows three friends, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, on their adventures. It is a great book to start as a third grader and read throughout grade and middle school. There are many deaths through out the series with most of them…

themselves with groups of people in fiction writing due to their personalities. This article is informative because it was written by psychologists to inform the readers about their research and experiment. The experiment is about people who have taken J,K. Rowling’s Pottermore test and how the four houses in Harry Potter relates to certain personality traits. The intended audience for this article are other psychologists who may take this information and continue to study it or people who are…

J. K. Rowling 's Harry Potter series is well known all over the world, by people of all age groups. In 1997, when the first book was released, it wasn’t all that popular, however, as time went by the books grew in popularity and took up a special place in the hearts of readers everywhere. Unlike many other works, these books aren’t specific to one age group or demographic; the books allow readers to grow as the characters in each book grow and evolve. This series is appealing for so many reasons…