In my earliest memories, I recall my parents reading me different stories such as Goodnight Moon and The Moral Compass. They encouraged me to read even before I began school. When I finally started school, I was an advanced reader, and I have been one ever since. Even though I was an advanced reader, my teachers would force me to read short, boring books that did not give me what I craved: adventure. The mundane books I was assigned to read caused me to resent reading for a while, but in third grade, I came across a series that quenched my thirst for adventure and challenged me as a reader. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series taught me to love reading and learning.
The wizarding world of Harry Potter stimulated my imagination and inspired me to read more. I was discovered that I could relate to the character Hermione. I also enjoyed reading about
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The series tells of London and other parts of Europe, so I started investigating these locations. Harry Potter compelled me to read more books about various things, including historical events. I began researching these events and places, and they awed me. I would read up on Greek mythology or the British royal family. I would search to find pictures of the Colosseum in Rome or the Great Pyramids of Egypt. I became fascinated by the technology used to build these great wonders, and I would try to find the different theories as to how they were built. This curiosity provoked my interest in learning about science and math because I wanted to know how it was possible to build such structures, but history was, and still is, my one true passion. I am still in love with the history of the world, and I continue to explore different stories of the past. It was through my reading of Harry Potter that I acquired this passion for learning, and J.K. Rowling’s stories provided me with a strong foundation for my academic
J.K Rowling is an incredibly talented author who has broken barriers for children’s books, and is an inspiration to all authors who come after her. She didn’t learn it on her own though, she has many other literary and cultural influences who helped her story along. We see many literary comparisons to authors like J.R.R Tolkien and C.S Lewis, and then we see the cultural influence such as Arthurian legend. In my research, I have found that a lot of her writing has been influenced by mythology. J.K Rowling herself has a passion for Greek, Roman, and classical mythology, and has been successful in sneaking it into the Harry Potter series through characters, spells, and even her magical creatures.
During her adolescent years, Joanne was not particularly close with her father, Peter Rowling. This distance exacerbated after Joanne’s father had remarried to another woman, one year after the death of Anne Volant Rowling in December 1990. Joanne and Dianne Rowling were strongly against this remarriage. Furthermore, the relationship between Joanne and her father aggravated, as Peter sold a rare collection of “Harry Potter” first edition novels to cover his £100,000 debts. These major events caused Joanne and Peter Rowling to ‘share’ an estranged relationship with each other.
At age 15, Rowling was confounded when given the news that her mother had become shoddily ill with numerous scleroses, an autoimmune disease. Stressed by her parents to become a secretary, Rowling attended the University of Exeter beginning at age 18 1983 and studied French. She lived in Paris for a year. After she ended college, Rowling stayed in London and worked at a number of jobs. Her mother died on December 30, 1990. Her mother's death was truly hard for her to take in. In an attempt to leave the sorrowfulness, Rowling began a job teaching English in Portugal. Her mother's death was sensible and difficult feelings for Harry Potter about his parents' deaths. JK. Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter series. She has won a lot of awards,
Although Joanne Rowling is considered to be one of the most successful authors in the industry, she had many obstacles to go through in order to achieve success. Joanne Rowling was born on July, 31st, 1965 in Yate England. During her elementary school years, Joanne Rowling was always interested in reading and writing stories and got influenced from her family to start reading. After graduating Exeter University, she married Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese journalist, and had a daughter named Jessica. Joanne Rowling shortly divorced and lived as a poor single mother and started writing what will be Harry Potter The Sorcerers Stone. Despite her troubles, Joanna Rowling was able to publish the Harry Potter series under the pen name J.K. Rowling
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
Fantastic Beasts 2 is already making its way into production even though the first movie is not out yet. Because of the popular Harry Potter novels of author J.K Rowling, she brings forth a different but similar world of wizardry and magic.
Bedtime was an enjoyable and engaging period where young children listened intently to elders reading endless amounts of stories and fairytales until these children reached a certain age of maturity and decided on reading the “big boy and girl” chapter books without any assistance. Therefore, many boys and girls had acquired enough courage to crack open and read the popular and major book series Harry Potter. From there on, children and adults alike were mesmerized and hooked on the magical and enchanting world filled with wizards, witches, and spells. However, as much as people can distinguish Harry Potter, very few are aware of the brain of it all, J.K. Rowling, who went through numerous hardships, setbacks, and
The colors red and green are the colors of Christmas, and they represent joy and happiness. However, in the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling, these colors mean something entirely different. The two colors completely contrast, and they represent good and evil.
J.K Rowling is a famous writer largely known for her series “Harry Potter”. She was born on July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodury. Rowling has known from a young age that she wanted to be a writer. At the age of six she had already written a book about a rabbit that got measles and asked for it to get published. Her real name is Joanne Rowling and the K was from her grandmother’s name (Kathleen) as Joanne was not given a middle name. J.K Rowling is one of the most well-known authors around the world.
Harry Potter as you guys know had done a lot of crazy things. Just so you guys know, Harry Potter was raised by his cruel Aunt and Uncle. On his eleventh birthday, a giant, called Hagrid, comes in Harry’s life and he tells everyone that Harry is a wizard. Harry and Hagrid became good friends and they both went to London to get school supplies for Harry’s first year at Hogwarts School . Harry gets trained from King’s Cross station. When Harry went to Hogwarts, Harry meets Ron and Hermione. Harry and Ron find Hermione bossy and annoying at first, but after they think that she is actually really nice and that’s when the three become best friends. Hagrid game some useful tips and he also takes them to a person that is a researcher, named Nicholas.
“Mom, can I read this book?” The child holds the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The mom sighs. She knew that this problem would come up eventually. “No, that book is witchcraft and not for children.” The kid stomps his fee. He was annoyed that another popular book is banned. Outside, there are children screaming, “Accio, Expelliamus, and Lumnos,” on a Halloween Night. There are wands and lightning bolts in these children’s hands. A set of parents watch their own children sigh from the window. The eldest asks, “What is wrong with Harry Potter?” Because of the Harry Potter books and movies phenomena, the Christian faith has pushed back. However, the Harry Potter books can be quite religious.
Joanne, J.K Rowling, we all know her, we all love her. She is the brilliant women who brought to life, arguably the most popular book franchise of all time. She was the women who wrote “Harry Potter”. She conceived the idea that has spanned seven books, and possibly the most loved movie franchise of all time. The final film in the series “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part 2”, hit theaters July, 15th 2011 in the UK and the United States. It had the third biggest opening weekend of all time, and is currently the third highest ranking film of all time. (J.K Rowling.com.). Joanne Rowling is possibly the most beloved author in history, she has become one of the richest women in the world. Thanks to revenue from Harry Potter movies, merchandize
In 1998, Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s first official book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was published. She was unaware, however, that children and adults alike all around the world would read her series of novels. J.K. Rowling was born in 1965 and was raised in southwest England where she developed a passion for reading and writing. On a train ride from Manchester to London, a story idea about a boy wizard and his adventures in a magical world came to life inside Rowling’s imagination. Eight years later, a total of seven Harry Potter books had been produced and the series was finally completed. Because of J.K. Rowling’s desire to animate the realm of fantasy, the popularity of young adult literature has increased and encouraged reading habits; however, her books have aroused controversy
What matters are the choices we make in life: to be courageous in spite of fear, to be humble in spite of being great, and to accept that life goes on in spite of misfortunes. He taught me if someone has less than you, it doesn't distinguish or define them as a person. That friendship and bravery are more important than book smarts and revenge. That takes lots of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. Most importantly, what Harry Potter gave me was the power of possibility. The possibility that I could live and breathe along with characters on a page. Harry Potter gave me the ability, and desire to see beyond my world, to discover what might be instead of relying on what already was. It helped me see that we are all born with a wild imagination, and there is space for us all to be creative. I have learned that we should not isolate ourselves from the world. While pretending something doesn’t exist is comforting, ignorance of what challenges us only causes more problems. Harry Potter reminds me that fear of a problem is much worse than the actual
I first started reading the Harry Potter series in 5th grade. I started with the second book of the series because that was the only book my classroom had, but ever since I have been obsessed with the entire premise of Harry Potter. It was a thing that my father enjoyed, so it is one of the few things that we could actually connect over (which had no impact on me liking it, it was just an added bonus of it). I was never ashamed of being a huge Harry Potter fan, I never minded the look people gave me when I got really passionate about a new theory I heard, or how Harry should not have named his child after Severus Snape. I felt comfortable when talking because those who were also fans reciprocated the excitement making me feel ok to be myself in public. Naturally, when the project came up, I was excited to do Harry Potter, the series I can read over and over again and not get tired of it. But to narrow down to one topic was difficult. There is an entire world to examine and to narrow down to a single topic about Harry Potter was almost impossible, but after talking about it with friends and looking online, I decided on a single topic. I chose to do the difference of watching/reading and being a fan of Harry Potter as an adult and as a child.