Oliver Stone

nor the joy of companionship; it 's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship”-Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the story Harry Potter and the Sorcerer 's Stone by Jk Rowling, many friendships are woven together to tell an amazing tale of intrigue and adventure. Three specific friendships define the novel and are developed through the characters: Harry Potter, an abandoned young orphan; Ron Weasley, an…

Love is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. As Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen has shown us, love is only truly beautiful when it includes the key element of respect and mutual improvement. In the well known Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, she unveils two spellbinding relationships between the main characters: Hermione Granger with Ron Weasley and Harry Potter with Ginny Weasley. Their bond is present from the first book to the last. Though J. K. Rowling has expressed…

While writing is painful, agonizing, and time-consuming work it is all worth it once the words pull together to create a story. I had only realized the joys of writing in my senior year of high school. It was only after hundreds of intellectually stimulating conversations with books. Conversations that took me into lands of imagination; eventually sending me off to write stories and essays of my own that led me to appreciate literature as a whole. The love of literature is a slow nourishing bond…

himself. The sacrifice Aslan makes to save Edmunds life represents the sacrifice Jesus made to save humankind. Having a central figure like Aslan represent Christ makes a huge impact on the books religious standpoint. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, there is no obvious representation of Christ as Aslan was in his novel The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Though this may be not a complete dismissal of the novels being religious, it helps…

the series Harry Potter. The magical world of the Harry Potter series was written by J.K. Rowling. In fact, she comes up with the idea on a train in the summer of 1990. (Biographical interview). The first film was Harry Potter and the Philosopher 's Stone. Basically, the plot of this movie is more focused in the early life of Harry Potter and how he lives his first year at the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Moreover, during his first year at school, he met other young wizards, who turned out…

My mom taught me how to read and writer and I ended up switching my name School started and I was able to sound things out phonetically but my spelling and handwriting were ass I later figured out that reading bigger books could help me become better with literacy so I jumped from Geronimo Stilton to Harry Potter I got a literacy handbook in my English class in high school that I still keep with me to help me remember key concepts I’m terrible at 3rd person writing and making things unbiased…

When the world consists of the sand box in the backyard, the park down the road, the elementary school classroom, and maybe a couple local grocery stores, it’s easy to ignore the injustice in the world. Children are often removed from the realities of discrimination. However, JK Rowling sought to first address discrimination and then take a clear stance against discriminatory practices in her Harry Potter book series. By embarking on this mission on behalf of her readership, Rowling impacted the…

Brooke English Mrs. Maples AP Psychology 24 July 2017 Perks of Being a Wallflower It is a rare phenomenon for the honest and unadulterated essence of high school suckage to be captured in a measly 224 pages. Stephen Chbosky undertakes the daunting task of capturing the pure truth and torture endured in high school in his modern masterpiece, Perks of Being a Wallflower. Chbosky mindfully depicts the monarchy and melancholy experienced in the melodrama that is high school by intermingling…

I read the Science Fiction book Divergent by Veronica Roth. This book has 487 pages in it. According to a review by BOOKPAGE “You will be up all night with Divergent, a brainy thrill-ride of a novel.” I think the intended audience for Divergent are young adults probably ages 11-15 because kids that age would be interested in Divergent the most because it is their level for reading and it is a really good story. Younger kids might not want to read it because they might not be interested in…

For the book that I liked, I picked Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and I believe that the author, JK Rowling has made an excellent use of language in this very famous novel of hers. Different characters' speech patterns reveal their levels of education. Wizards speak in proper English, and Hagrid, who is half-giant and not fully educated, drops his H's and slurs his words together a bit sloppily. House-elves have no sophisticated mastery of language. They use terrible grammar, referring to…