Analysis of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter is a fascinating tale of sorcerers, wands, broomsticks, dragons, and magic. The story begins with a young boy named Harry Potter who lives at number four Privit Drive, Surray, England. His journey begins after the death of his parents at the hands of the evil Lord Voldemort. Harry learns of his past and his future as a wizard from Hagrid, the keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He travels to Hogwarts where he learns spells and enchantments, makes new friends, finds enemies, and discovers fantastic secretes. J.K. Rowling weaves a web of impeccable storytelling with this critically acclaimed novel. In the tale of Harry Potter imagery, symbolism, and motif take central focus.

Book-burning is the first thing that is explained about this future based society of Fahrenheit 451. Burning books is the obliteration of the single thought on paper or in one word- censorship. Books are considered evil because they make people question and think. All intellectual curiosity and thirst for knowledge must be quelled for the good of the state — for the good of conformity. Without ideas, everyone conforms, and as a result, everyone should be happy. When books and new ideas are available to people, conflict and unhappiness occur. Some of the many different motifs in the novel Fahrenheit 451 are conveyed through the use of various sardonic lines and connotations planted throughout the book. On the matter of technology and modernization it explains how TV reigns supreme in the future because of the "happiness" it offers. People are content when they don’t have to think, or so the story goes. TV aside, technology is the government’s means of oppression, but also provides the renegade’s opportunity to subvert. Rules and order is another popular topic written into the book. It is stated that “All books can be beaten down with reason.” This was said by Captain Betty, a quote ironically coming from a book itself. Much of the restrictions on the general populous are self-enforced. The government has taken away the citizens’ ability to dissent and marred all dissatisfaction with a cheap version of "happiness," a.k.a. TV. This means

Sandy Hook Elementary School. San Bernardino. Paris. What do all of these places have in common? They fell victim to unpredictability. Mass shootings are not new to our society, but they are still a devastating problem that should not exist any longer. Mass shootings connect to the novel, Fahrenheit 451, through both the unnecessary violence and the absence of humanity that are evident in the novel. Mass shootings are a devastating problem in our society, and now their numbers have escalated to a new level. This change reflects how both our society and our humanity is beginning to crumble, solutions like banning unnecessary and excessive fire arms are currently being enacted.

     The title of my book is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It is written by J.K. Rowling. I really liked this book. This book is a fiction book. That of course means it’s not true.

Harry is staying over after a dinner party that ran late, and he gave Nick those ~~eyes when Nick brought out blankets for him to sleep on the couch, so Nick let Harry into his own bed - frankly it’s like the kid of doing it ON PURPOSE to fuck with Nick’s iron will - with stern instructions to “SLEEP, popstar, some of us have to get up in, oh crap, five bloody hours. So I don’t want to hear you!”

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a novel that illustrates what could happen to our society in the future. The novel portrays a society in which books, excluding comic books and other simple technical books, are banned and burned for the good of the society as the people believed. The books are seen as a source of unhappiness and, therefore, the society has decided to Ban them and put the fireman in charge of maintaining the censorships. I believe that books are not only banned because they make people unhappy but because they make people unequal. I believe that censorship of books is indented to make everyone in the society equal.

My book report is on the book 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone' by J.K.

Harry potter and the prisoner of Azkaban is an excellent book. Out of ten stars I would rate this one an eight because it was to short. Once you get into it and finish it. It seems so short, because it is so interesting. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban starts out with a bang. In the beginning Sirius black a Man accused of thirteen murders in one night escapes from Azkaban.( A wizard prison guarded to the tee by dementors, deadly spirits that feast on anything happy. Basically they suck the life out of you slowly until you go mad and lose sanity). Harry runs away on the same night and crosses the man without realizing it. Since Sirius is an ananamugus he is able to turn into a giant black

I was an only child for much of my childhood and we moved around a lot, so while I was growing up, books were my constant and usually only friends. The books I've selected for my bookshelf are what I feel my progression in taste of books looks like in relation to my personal growth.

Though Fahrenheit 451 encompasses several aspects of antagonistic roles that serve to hinder and obstruct Guy Montag’s path to elucidation, it can be concluded that the novel characterizes two main adversaries - Captain Beatty, as well as the entire societal structure that Montag struggles to avert and escape from. To clarify, it can be adjudged that throughout the novel, Captain Beatty and the institution he embodies act as the predominant adversaries and opposing factors that obstruct Montag in his path to abate his own ignorance and extirpate this blindness in the rest of the television obsessed, unperturbed population. Specifically, Captain Beatty, the fireman chief, is somewhat of a controversial character, appearing as a paradox, as he is often insightful and perceptive on the effects of literature, yet argues against and thwarts these discernments by rejecting literature and embodying the entire institution of knowledge-repudiating book burners. Though Beatty burns and renounces literature, he frequently quotes passages and excerpts from these forbidden texts; the disparity, however, between himself and Montag, though, is that the Captain uses these novels to prove the contradictions of literature, and the treachery they pose to those who endeavor into their world - not willing to ponder or comprehend that the entire point of literature was to provoke and instill questioning and assertion in its readers. Furthermore, Beatty is often described as a malicious,

Question: The texts we read and view can open our eyes to the world around us.

In Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan uses the main character of Clay Jannon and the supporting characters of Kat Potente and Neel Shah to prove the importance of having accomplices when a protagonist tries to uncover a mystery. This theme is also prominent in J.K. Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where the protagonist, Harry Potter, is supported by his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. Both Sloan and Rowling argue that the allies of the hero are just as significant as the hero himself by creating characters that resemble one another to an extreme extent.

J. K. Rowling, along with many other modern fantasy authors, owes a great deal to Dante in the formulation of her best-selling series. Though the subject matter she undertakes—a magical world of witchcraft and wizardry—would have, in Dante’s eyes, landed her in the eighth circle of the Inferno, fourth pouch, Rowling would arguably have been unable to create the magical universe of Harry Potter without immense inspiration from The Divine Comedy. In an overly simplistic picture, Voldemort might be thought of as a representation of Satan, arrogantly believing that he has the power to conquer the whole wizarding community, let alone the entire world, with his magical faculties. Indeed, similar to Satan, Voldemort exemplifies the damning qualities of greed, wrath, violence, deceit, and betrayal every step of the way on his path to power.

In this paper I did research throughout all seven books of J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter Series. Many people have different opinions as to what was Ms. Rowling’s true theme was towards this series. Some may say that it is; Good V.S Evil, Coming of Age, Death, or Friendship. They always forget that the main theme is Love. Rowling portrayed the theme of the book through her characters personality and how love changed everybody life. Throughout her series there were series of different type of love going one. Some may include Sacrificial Love, Unconditional Love, Love Hate, Love turning evil good. Since Harry really never had love showed towards him in life because he lived with his Uncles, Aunt, and cousins who are muggles. Moving to Hogwarts he was showed lots of love. This love helped Harry destroy evil at its worst and help him protect the ones he love. Even though it was plenty of sacrificial death going on in this series, it was all for the right reasons, protecting the ones they love.

The movie adaptation of J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a very pivotal movie in the series. Like the book, this movie is crucial in setting up an understanding for the rest of the series. Therefore it is important that the movie complements the novel as much as possible. Using one of the most essential features of a movie; visual imagery, the movie adaptation of the fourth novel is a good accompaniment for the novel. The visual imagery in this movie emphasizes emotions and reactions that we cannot possibly obtain from the book. For example, the death of Cedric Diggory at the end of the movie strikes a powerful emotional response as a result of his father, Amos Diggory’s grief. Seeing him cry makes the audience more