I started out as someone who didn’t read very many books other than picture books. I wasn’t into novels, mostly because they just seemed to drone on for a while. However, that changed when I was 9 years old and when I was encouraged to read Harry Potter. It had took a little bit of coaxing, because I remembered watching the movie when I was little, and for some reason I was scared of it, but I’m not sure why I was so scared. When I had actually read the book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was the first novel I read all the way without getting bored, and I loved it so much as a child. The fantasy world filled with magic and terrifying creatures simply astounded me when I read, and I just wanted to keep coming back for more. I would go …show more content…
Even the movies, upon watching them, were very enjoyable to me and I’d watch them before I went to bed on Saturday nights. I loved the series so much that it opened me up to new thoughts and ideas, and in the end, it encouraged me to read more novels and eventually start writing on my own. Reading and writing has become a passion of mine ever since, and I want it to define me as a person later in life. When I want to grow up, I would like to do something with my ability to write. Typing on the computer for me is a breeze since I’ve practiced with writing on there, and ideas can spew out of my head due to creativity, and it’s all thanks to that one fantasy world that sparked so much imagination and many thoughts in my head. I’ve also been inspired to write my own novels, having started writing one over the summer. I’m not sure when I will be done with it, but I want to press …show more content…
Ever since then, I’ve become a really big fan of Harry Potter, I’ve read the entire series about nine times, I have counted, and I own all the movies. I even went to the amusement park for Harry Potter in Florida, and it was probably the best vacation I’ve ever had in my life. Whenever someone talks about Harry Potter around me, I will definitely talk with them about it, and having read the books a ton of times, I know a large amount of stuff from Harry Potter. People sometimes try to make me feel ashamed for liking it, but I find them ridiculous, because I absolutely love the series, and I find it a little bit hard to hate it. It’s a wonderfully written series, one that has shaped the lives of me and many other people besides me. It has shaped my creative streak, and it was especially hearing the author of Harry Potter J.K. Rowling’s story about how she tried to get Harry Potter first published that really touched me as a writer and really inspired me to achieve any goals I wanted to get, because apparently she was rejected by many, many different companies before actually getting her book published. That just makes me want to do just the same thing she did, when I write a book, I am going to keep trying to get it published no matter what it takes, because I know that there will be a publisher that will accept my book. J.K. Rowling, just as much as Harry Potter was, is a role model to me, and I
Muggles cannot use or even sense the presence of magic, they also cannot brew a potion even if they had access to all the right magical ingredients, this is the trait that makes them so different from magical folk. Magic is present both in people and in plants and animals. These creatures or foliage is now hidden from Muggles by the government for their own protection. Muggles also cannot use objects such as flying broomstick as they require a magical presence in order to function correctly, a muggle could pick one up and use it in their manner and not realise that it is magical in the
My Husband knows about my Harry Potter (almost) obsession and does not miss a chance to give me a hard time about it. I could read Harry Potter over and over again without getting bored. I also enjoy my Twilights and Hunger Games. I favor series because it allows me to make more of a connection with the characters. Knowing they have another adventure once I finish the last page gets me excited. When I was younger I read more of a variety mystery, western, and horror. As I get older I find myself going back to comfort, and that is why I reread my favorites. Going to college, working two jobs, spending time with my family, and as of recently considering being a foster parent has not left me time for pleasure reading. That is why I spend any time I do have reading novels I know I enjoy. I hope after graduating that I will have more time to expand the literature I
Kindergarten and elementary school introduced Accelerated Reading, a point system that awarded children for reading books and testing well on them. The competitive nature it brought was key to my advancing as a reader through 5th grade. I was reading little series like Junie B. Jones and Magic Tree House, connecting with these simple characters and finding a certain comfort in the familiarity between each book in them. In the fourth grade, I began trying to chase the top spot in the AR rankings, Catherine. She won every year, racking up over 1,000 points. I just began pulling large books off the shelf and reading them. This was how I came across the most impressive series of my generation: Harry Potter. I read the fourth book first, because it was the biggest. It totally threw of my experience, as I read 5,6, and 7, then went back to read the first three. Rowling's ability to immerse me in a universe sparked
J.k Rowling is an author best known for her harry potter series and founder of Lumos a charity dedicated to saving children in institutions where they are forced out of all individualism, have no personal belongings, schooling or normally any food. The name Lumos came from a spell in her harry potter series to put light into dark places. Lumos helps the sick , disabled and unwealthy children forced into institutions by poverty and discrimination or purely by the lack of social services in the areas of the world where for some the only way to get an education at all is to go to a institution
Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital outside Bristol and grew up in England and in south-east Wales.Her father was an aircraft engineer and her mother was a science technician where Joanne herself went to school. Developing and growing up, she had always loved to be around books, she wrote her first book at age 6, a book titled "Rabbit".
Born Joanne Rowling to Anne and Peter Rowling, Rowling grew up in Chipping Sodbury, England with her older sister Diana (Source 3). She went to school at Wyedean School and College, St Michael's Primary School in Winterbourne, University of Exeter, UK (Source 1). After graduating from college, she went on to find work and started to write the Harry Potter series (Source 2). After graduation she also worked at many different places, including a publishing company where part of her job was to write and send out rejection letters to different people (Source 3). In the late 1990’s, she went to France to teach english as a foreign language, but after falling in and out of love she had a daughter and moved back to the UK to continue to write (Source #2). Rowling later stated that the main character in her books resembled her greatly (Source #3). The fantasy novel soon became a hit for both adults and children when the first three books took the first three slots in the recommended list that was published by the New York Times (Source 1). The books also received many other awards, including the
In Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Potter shows the influence her childhood has on her timeless children’s book. Potter grew up in solitude for most of her childhood with only animals and nature to play with and was later influenced heavily by these. As she grew older, Potter showed an interest in fine arts, literature, and even the scientific research of fungi (Coupland). Beatrix Potter was a strong woman who was influenced by the radical theory of the changing world around her and her endurance through hardship while creating her world famous children’s book: The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Dresang).
The famous Harry Potter is well known in the wizarding world, but what makes him so special? Is it how he got the lightning bolt scar? Not only do his physical features make him unique, but what is on the inside shows he is brave, humble, and selfless. He is more than just a kid who's just courageous. He has natural talents, such as how he can speak Parseltongue and skills that he developed over the years at Hogwarts.
In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, magic is a mystical force that helps the wizards of Magical Britain. Wizards are able to perform healing charms to extend life, use spells to perform daily tasks, and teleport to practically anywhere in the world; the possibilities of magic appear to be endless. However, with everything that magic can do, there is also so much that it cannot. It is known that wizards are able to conjure physical objects, but they are unable to conjure food. As Hermione says to Ron in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “Your mother can’t produce food out of thin air,” because this violates a principle called “Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration” (DH, 292).
If I had to go alongside the main character from any movie or book I would choose the Harry Potter book series/ movie series. The first reason why I would pick that is because they have these really awesome objects like wands, invisibility cloaks and the list goes on. Another reason why I would like to go alongside the characters is because of Hogwarts. At Hogwarts they have all these amazing things like quidditch where you fly on brooms. My last reason is the battle scenes and the big wizarding war. Every one is casting spells at everything. Even though you could die, it sounds awesome!
“Let us not forget, after all, that there is always a moment when the moral choice is made. Often because of one story or one book or one person, we are able to make a different choice, a choice for humanity, for life” (Elie Wiesel). One book series that is extremely influential and delves into the topic of ethics and being a thoughtful citizen is the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Furthermore, the Harry Potter books teaches a person to overcome their own fears, and there is always hope.
The beginning of my interest in reading goes way back, although I don’t have any defining “aha!” moment, where I all of a sudden enjoyed reading books. There were always books around when I was growing up, if I was at my grandparents house it was the books they kept from their youth; classics like Treasure Island or any Hemingway book, the hard covers permanently infused with dust; plenty of History books, particularly World War II history; and the children’s books I always received as presents when I visited. My mom also read a lot, but more modern books, like supernatural or light horror books, nothing too difficult (or scary). I spent a lot of time reading magazines, mostly Video Game (note: spent more time creating stories off the
Have you ever read the Harry Potter series? I bade you to read the Harry Potter series. I have three reasons why you should read the novel, and they are: if you like magic, if you like wizards and witches, if you like suspense, then read the Harry Potter series. However, if you haven’t read the series, here is a brief description of the first book of the novel: “The Fantasy Novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’, By J.K. Rowling is about a boy named Harry Potter who was a one year old that was left on the doorstep of his mother’s sister’s house, (Petunia Dursley). His Aunt and her husband, Vernon Dursley, accepted Harry. Eleven years later Harry Potter receives a letter from one of the best schools of Witchcraft and Wizardry named Hogwarts, a school for magic people. When Harry finds out he is a wizard, he sets off for Hogwarts, where he finds that he is very famous because of his lightning shaped scar and his great Quidditch skills. He also meets many kind people and his very first best friends, named Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry, Ron, and Hermione survive all the way to the end of the novel, where they discover that the Sorcerer’s Stone is about to be stolen, so Harry Ron, and Hermione try to save the stone. Finally Harry Potter alone reaches the stone where he meets the thief of the stone, the Dark Lord. There he most importantly finds a path he must take later in the series to overtake the Dark Lord, if he could survive his destiny.” After reading
I have never been someone who could get into a book without at first knowing what I am jumping into. The idea of opening up a book, entering a world, not knowing what to expect, always deterred me. But, fictional reading to me, has always brought to me a sense of curiosity, for it pushes me to discover almost an entire new life through the eyes of another. All throughout my childhood, my parents encouraged me to read as much as possible, where there was never a time where we would not have a book checked out at the library near my house. We would sit within the children’s section of the library and just read. Whether reading Roald Dahl or R.L. Stine, I was pulled into a whole nother world with each book that I read. It pushed me to imagine what I now see as impossible and almost pushed me out of the reality which I was living in at the time. I began my
Another factor which I believe has led to the novels success is that while reading, the reader wishes that they could live in this fantasy world created by Rowling where life is anything but ordinary. The novels make the reader somewhat desire a life like the one led by the characters of the novels, like going to a school to learn wizarding, always having extraordinary things happen and just being at Hogwarts seems like an unequaled joy for some. These novels have the ability to reignite the long lost imaginations of adults, and keep the imaginations of children strong.