Harry Potter And The Lord Of The Rings

The Harry Potter series is the best book series ever. On top you see wizards, wand, and other cool magical things every human wants to be able to do. But deep down Harry Potter is full of literary elements including an epic quest for the three main characters, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter. Harry Potter’s overall quest throughout the books is to track down the evil wizard, Voldemort. He must also learn about why he is so famous. His best friend, Ron Weasley, is poor boy with 7 siblings. Ron’s quest is to become more brave and be the leader. Hermione Granger, Harry’s other best friends, her quest is all about knowledge and to do what’s right.

Chapter six, … Or the Bible, of How to Read Literature Like A Professor (HTRLLAP) asserts that connect all of the dots is vital, and how a story about the loss of innocence always hit so hard because they are final. The two biggest points of this chapter, though, are how not all uses of religion are straight-forward, how some are there just to illustrate a disparity and that the names of the characters in a novel are almost always important to a writer's point and can help carry their message.

In life, one grows and changes in time, their overall personality goes through a transformation. The characters of the Novels Lord of the Flies, Fifth Business, and the Deathly Hallows the characters go through transformations based on the decisions they make, the interactions they have with the other characters of the novel and, thinking of major events that have happened in their life. Overall, characters go through transformations based on their actions, relationships, and reflection.

Milbank explains that in the “‘post Christian phase’, where there is a decline in institutionalised religion, fantasy seems to have the ability to give glimpses of the Gospel, allowing the story of Christ to ‘persist in the echo of the public value’” (2). Anastasia Apostolides and Johann-Albrecht Meylahn state “Tolkien, Lewis, and in a contemporary world, Rowling, use glimpses of the Gospel in their work to expose and challenge the effects of the dominant discourses of their societies that they see as fragmenting and hurting people’s identities and binding them to material things” (5). In the same article, it is later stated that “As the Harry Potter series has the Christ discourse threaded in its sacred story, it allows the reader glimpses of the values of the Gospels from an everyday perspective and that makes the series function as lived theology” (6). Also stated is the idea that, “Rowling’s wizarding ‘Sub-Creation’ gives a very similar choice to those of Lewis and Tolkien (the choice between Christ and corruption)” (5). While many conservative Christians jump to the assumption that with the storyline revolving around warlocks and wizardry the series must promote satanic values, the series as a whole follows an extremely Christ-like path. Rowling states, “to me [the religious parallels have] always been obvious…but I never wanted to talk too openly about it because I thought it might

Interviewer: Greetings Harry Potter. I am an interviewer for ‘The Daily Prophet’ and I am intending to make this interview, the biggest news in the wizarding world! During this session, l would like to ask you questions about your adventure to defeat Voldemort. When you first started out in Hogwarts, you knew that you were the one to defeat Voldemort, but seeing the mission that Dumbledore left for you, what did you think of embarking on that treacherous journey?

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing." (Severus Snape, Book five.) The book series entitled 'Harry Potter' has Biblical themes hidden beneath all of the spells, charms, and enchantments. Harry Potter, in my own opinion, is very Christ like and I feel like the book series could be looked at like a modernized version of the bible. He resembles Jesus Christ in multiple ways. J.K Rowling has subtly featured religious symbolism in her books such as, Harry dying for the wizarding world much like Jesus died willingly for our sins. After they died, they were both resurrected. Fawkes, the

A hero can be defined as someone who places themself at great risk, while performing acts of courage. This definition can be related in the epic poem, Beowulf, and the novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer 's Stone. In each story, both leading characters are born destined to defeat the most evil creature in their world. Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic poem in the world. “Beowulf” was written in 1000 AD, in Old English form. In this poem the main character, Beowulf, challenges an evil monster, Grendel and a dragon, to a battle to save Denmark. 1,300 years later, in 1997, the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer 's Stone was published. Written by JK Rowling, Harry Potter became an instant success and was read by millions of people all over the world. In this novel, the main character, Harry Potter, is sent to Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry. At Hogwarts, Harry realizes that it is his destiny to kill Lord Voldemort, the most evil creature in the wizard world. Even through culture change, Harry Potter and Beowulf can be compared. They can be compared because both heroes are destined to fight evil, lead a group of people, and save the innocent lives of others.

The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling has created quite a stir among public schools and churches. Some parents and ministers are afraid these books are teaching wizardry, witchcraft, and evil to their children, while others think they are books of harmless fantasy. There are two sides to this controversy, but I believe that these are just a way for kids to make-believe and imagine.

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand...there is no going back. There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.” In The Lord of The Rings, Frodo’s journey is one of persistent sorrows. His mind is conflicted between his will to do the right thing and the Ring’s seductive call. Towards the end of his journey, his will breaks and he gives in to the Ring’s power. While he ends up succeeding on his quest, it is a pyrrhic victory. He returns home a shell of a person. The things he used to love he now scorns. The places where he found rest are now alien to him. In the aftermath of trauma, he no longer knows where

As young children watching movies and reading books, we tend to always fall in love with one character, and they become our favorites. Some of your childhood favorites may have been Batman, Luke Skywalker, Rapunzel, and Captain America, or Winnie the Pooh and Dorothy. These characters are all heroes and are all very similar, for they all have loyal sidekicks who stand by them through thick and thin. Batman has Robin. Luke Skywalker has Princess Leia. Captain America has Bucky Barnes, and Winnie the Pooh has Piglet. Some might as well have loved the sidekick just as much, or even more than the hero. It is after all hard to not fall in love the Rapunzel's adorable chameleon, Pascal. Overall, sidekicks are often placed in a story to help by showing the utmost loyalty to their own dignitary; some do this by giving knowledge, others just through cracking jokes. With different cultures and different settings for stories, the sidekick’s usefulness and value to the hero varies. Depending on the story, the sidekick might not be portrayed as very helping, but in another time and place, they might be a very key character, in a different story.

The interaction of fate and free will in the primary world is a very complex, intertwined phenomenon. However, in Tolkien’s works The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, there is a recognizable pattern that is set. More specifically this pattern regarding fate is established cosmologically through his story of creation (the “Ainulindale”), and the precedent is set for how individual choice affects the events that follow. This pattern will be used to establish how Tolkien views the effect of determination on determinism throughout his other works.

The story starts out with a brief description of Bilbo's journeys in the pervious story, the

As, perhaps arguably, his most famous novel, from his most famous book series, The Chronicles of Narnia, there has been much debate as to his motives for the implementation of religion in his works, and even some question as to whether religion is an actual existing aspect of the work. This essay will not only outline the unmistakable presence of religious allegory, but also focus on the purpose of it being there. Thus being, that C.S Lewis uses religious allegory to effectively introduce and develop core themes of the novel in a fashion both comprehensible and relatable for a universal audience.

First of all, Religion always has a great influence on literature. All around the world, almost every part of the earth has been, to a certain degree, affected by religion, and of course, western countries are mainly influenced by Christianity and the Holy Bible.The Bible, as the classic of Christianity, has permeated into all parts of social life in the England and the United States. Its attraction can be seen in a large number of literal works. The Genesis, the Christ, the Fates of the Apostles are all based on the resources of the Bible.

Opponents believe that Christian viewpoints are challenged as Rowling introduces wizards and their powers, witchcraft in their eyes. As Gish states in her article, Hunting Down Harry Potter, “Deuteronomy specifically states that witches and wizards are an abomination unto the Lord that will be driven out.” She goes on to discuss that if the belief system is so strong, they do not want to read Harry Potter where this wizard is portrayed in such a positive light. Harry uses his powers for good, and some are concerned that the wizard who uses those powers for good may make their child want to dig deeper into the world of wizards. In their eyes that interest could be seen as an abomination to God. Gish also compared some of the censorship of Harry Potter to that of an oncoming truck. What parent would not rush out to save their child if they were standing in the way of an oncoming truck? To critics, Harry Potter is the oncoming truck and they are just doing what they feel is right for their child. To the critics it is important to realize while most will know this story to be a fantasy, knowing the characters and events are not real, some believe this to be a reality. There are some that truly believe wizardry is occurring and they do not want their child to be lured in to reading a book that they think promotes such black magic. Glanzer argued that