Harry Potter 's The Casual Vacancy

The setting in this story is an a futuristic world and the book involves many setting such as The Smoke, New Pretty Town, and Ugly Town. This book is about two different worlds: the uglies and the pretties. The pretties live in nice houses, party everyday, and don’t do any work. The uglies have to work everyday and both worlds are totally separated. This book is about Tally Youngblood and how her journey was when she was an ugly. She is an adventurous girl who loves to play tricks on other people is Uglyville, but she an thrilled to become pretty. Tally is also a very loyal because she had a big decision to make: to choose between her friends or becoming pretty. Shay, another main character, is a very unique person. Unlike Tally, she doesn’t know if she wants to become pretty or not. She is also rebellious because she escaped Uglyville the day before her birthday so she wouldn’t have the operation. The inciting incident in this story

The book took the literary world by storm selling nearly twelve million copies within the first twenty-four hours. Although the brilliant mind behind the Harry Potter series is most famously known for her success, the reality she faced before becoming the critically acclaimed author was anything but magical. The loss of J.K. Rowling’s mother early on became the determination she needed to finish the first of many distinguished publications. Identically, the characters Nemo from Finding Nemo and the orphaned brothers from the short story Strays find that life can be unfair, unkind, and unpredictable. Nonetheless, tragedy can become the fuel to develop maturity and encourage the creative thinking that brings on achievement.

Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Ireland into a Christian family. His parents were Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis. He had a brother named Warren Hamilton Lewis. When he was younger, he had a dog named Jacksie, who was hit by a car. He “changed” his name to Jacksie which he later shortened to Jack. A name he would go by the rest of his life. As a child, Lewis and his brother loved Beatrix Potter’s books and often made their own stories and own worlds. One of those worlds was called

She grew up in the backwoods of eastern Kentucky, among plains and pastures where she and her siblings roamed and read every book their family owned (Kingsolver). Her love of literature was born at an early age. Even though

For the first fifty years after its publication, Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson endured as the bestselling novel in America. Its popularity in part came from concerned parents who wanted their daughters to learn the lessons that the novel had to offer. The character of Mademoiselle La Rue from this story helps to convey one of these lessons. Susanna Rowson uses the morally corrupt, yet socially successful, character of La Rue in Charlotte Temple to show that human beings should not confuse moral virtues with societal virtues.

In the book Outliers, sociologist Annette Lareau states that concerted cultivation is a middle class “parenting style” that attempts to actively “foster and assess a child’s talents, opinions and skills,” granting the child earlier advantages such as self esteem and additional education (Gladwell 104). In Rowling’s early childhood, she was often encouraged by those around her to write when she first showed an affinity towards writing. Both of Rowling’s parents were very fond of reading, and Rowling remembers that her childhood house was full of books, giving Rowling endless books to read ("JK Rowling Biography." , Bibliography). Her grandmother often praised her writing and gave her an autobiography of a female writer by the name of Jessica Mitford, inspiring Rowling to become a writer as well (“People’s World.”). By having parents who were fond of reading and an environment that gave her unlimited access to books, Rowling was exposed to what would later become her passion early on. Like her parents, Rowling learned to love reading, and her grandmother even encouraged her, pushing Rowling on the path of becoming a writer. As Rowling grew older, she would create stories specifically tailored for each of her friends during lunchtime, all centered around heroic deeds. Her friends were delighted to hear themselves placed into one of Rowling’s stories, and Rowling would constantly think of new and exciting tales in order to please them ("J. K. Rowling Biography." -

6. (N) Oswaldo and Tim took a quick excursion to the small island of Saint Thomas, while the rest of the group stayed with the tour guide on the island next door, Saint John.

Born in Yate, Glouchester to an air craft engineer and a science technician, Rowling’s early life was a happy one. She attended St. Michael’s Primary school, and

The Casual Vacancy follows the lives of eight households in the aftermath of Barry Fairbrother’s death (Foreman). Through these characters, Rowling explores the complexity of human nature and actions driven by personal bias. As a result, no character in the novel is fully likeable because of the troubling revelations made by the reader about each individual. With this, the reader may place the characters on a scale of disagreeability in comparison to the other residents. The disconcerting flaws exhibited by each character eliminate any chance for improvement in the reader’s mind (Perez).

150 years ago, Helen (Beatrix) Potter, one of best known children’s author, was born July 28th, 1866 in London, England. Both of her parents were interested in art and as a result, Helen had the opportunity to meet other important artists. During her early childhood, she and her brother were fascinated by things in nature and sketching animals was one of her favorite things to do. As she grew up, she studied at the National Art Training School in the late 1870s to help with her develop her talents.

Joanne Rowling was born on July 31st, 1965 at Yate General Hospital just outside Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales.(Source #5). When Joanne was little, she was always reading. (Source 5), she even wrote a book at six and called it Rabbit (Source #1), and when she was eleven she wrote a book about cursed diamonds.(Source #3). Joanne went to school At Exeter Uni and had a library fine of about 69.54. (Source #5). She also taught Writing in Portugal (Source #5). Rowling got the idea for Harry Potter on a train to Manchester, (Source #2), she was a single mom when she was writing her first book, but still managed to write best selling books. (Source #1), and she was helped by the government until the release of her first book. (Source #2).

The overwhelming emotions that come from reading literature are crucial to finding the right novel. It has to make me cry, laugh, or form an attachment to the character. I have to become both mentally and emotionally invested in the book because that causes me to continue reading. Jellicoe Road is one of the books that feed my curiosity. In this book, Taylor Markham goes through her own journey while another story is being told. Taylor Markham was left by her mother at a 7-Eleven store that was located on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven years old. She does not have any memory of her father except for one when she was sitting on his shoulders. As she reaches her eleventh year at the Jellicoe School, she becomes the leader of her House. After school hours, the adults do not know what the students are up to. There is a territory war between her school, the “Townies”, and the “Cadets”, who are the other two house leaders from a school located in Sydney. As she

“paper round, birthday- plus my nan sent me a bit and I was saving up for a computer” Jam is a very kind boy, but wanting more instead of being Laurens best friend. As a reader, you will know that Jam loves Laurens without Lauren even knowing. You also see Lauren’s view on him, which shows us that she doesn’t have a clue that Jam likes her. The author makes Jams a powerful character in the book by making Lauren forget about the small important things going on whiles she thinks about all the big things in her life; Focusing on the small things can help you fix the big things in

Born in Durham, England, as a child and a young woman Elizabeth was extremely fortunate in the circumstances of her family background and environment. From an early age, Elizabeth immerged herself in a world of books and literature, writing

Rowling had an early start to beginning to her career path. Rowling’s mother was a big influence on who she became today. The start of her career was very early. Rowling loved to read and write even as a young child. Her favorite books included the stories of “The Little White Horse” by Elizabeth Goudge, “Manxmouse” by Paul Gallico, and “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis. As a young six year old, she wrote a story about a rabbit who was named Rabbit. In 1990, she started writing the first Harry potter book after a train ride with her boyfriend. She has said that she had many ideas but she did not have a pen on the train and why very shy at this point, so she didn't want to ask for one. When she got home, she started writing all her ideas and the first chapter. She wrote nearly every night and then sent the first three chapters to an agent in 1996. Rowling has always had thoughts of publishing. She even thought as a six year old to do this, sadly this never happened and we will never get to read the story of Rabbit the rabbit. She had to overcome the decease of her mother (who she was close to) to continue writing and coming up with ideas. It is a good thing she did, otherwise we would not have the amazing works of fantasy today. J.K. Rowling has always been interested in her field of