Harry Potter And The Sorcerer 's Stone

Throughout all of time, literature has played an important role in people’s lives. Books are more than just stories to laugh at, cry with, or fall asleep to, but books can teach. Books can teach a person a simple task such as baking cookies or an extremely complex one such as solving for the derivative of a trigonometric path and its parabolic motion. Whatever the subject, whomever the reader, books can teach people many lessons. One of the most important lessons that a book can teach a reader is a lesson about himself, about the difficulties of life, and about living a good life. As time has passed, so has literature itself. Older books focused on historical events, fictional poetry, and important figures; however, books now have evolved to

I can recall the first time I laid my hands on a Harry Potter book. It was in second grade, and someone had suggested to me that I should really try to read the series, as it was one of the best literary works out there. I read the first five pages, before I decided that all the witchcraft and wizardry was not for me. Seven-year-old me did not know how mistaken I truly was. I never genuinely gave it a chance, and thought that the only books for me were shallow tales about life as a rich middle school girl. Until one fateful night in the October of 2012, the gift that was the Harry Potter universe was not in my heart. As soon as I picked it up from the library to read in the event of no power during Hurricane Sandy, I was hooked. While utter

Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived. Little 8 year old me sat curled up on the library floor with my nose in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”. I was fascinated by witches who turned into cats, flying broomsticks and quidditch, secret passageways and three-headed dogs, and most of all by these three kids about my age having these wonderful adventures. I was inspired by their courage and intelligence. It would be my favorite book from then, until now as I am sitting here writing this letter wearing a ravenclaw sweater, and for many years to come. These were the books that made me like reading. One reason that these are important is because in a time where young girls are given barbie dolls and makeup and told they should look pretty, Hermione provides an excellent and encouraging

One column indicated the home of Matilda's family and a huge clutter of tiles and books made up the local library, where she found refuge. I read the story of Matilda during my childhood, but I did not remember her being so intelligent! I do recall she always being mischievous, but it also reminds me of my childhood and getting into trouble in class. I myself was a gifted child as well, and always finished my assignments in class early and got bored easily, furthermore, getting into trouble. I found it rather odd that Matilda and I had many things in common, although I didn't like to read as much as she did. I couldn't believe how Matilda's father, Harry Wormwood, treated her unfairly and always referred her as a boy, and took a fondness with her brother Michael. Ironically, Michael enjoyed watching television and generally didn't care about reading or academics, just like the rest of the family. Harry wanted his son to follow in his footsteps and work as a car salesman alongside him one day. With the priorities of Matilda's family being rather substandard, Mrs. Wormwood, Matilda's mother, was a voluptuous woman highly concerned only with her appearance, such as dying her hair platinum blonde, and prizing her looks over intelligence and substance. With Matilda not having an array of support and mentors, she confided in reading a lot of books with the village librarian Mrs. Phelps. Mrs. Phelps meant well, but she often treated Matilda as a little girl and had difficulty understanding how a six-year-old girl had the knowledge to read books outside the children's section in the library. She did her best to mentally stimulate Matilda and showed her how to pursue her love of reading. I really enjoyed watching the

The biological theory as stated in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. He under goes a family or genetic trauma. Not only does he lose his parents when he was born and ended up with a scar. He has an uncle and aunt who completely destroy his self-conscious. He isn’t allowed to do anything without being told to do it. He isn’t allowed new things; he lives under a cupboard. He watches his cousin get everything in the world while he has to cook and clean the house. His brain thinks different than other wizards. When he comes into contact with Draco Malfoy, he is able to get a good judge of character and tell him that he isn’t worth his time. That he is not a good guy at all. He is able to notice that Ron and Hermione are good people are going to be

Throughout the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, written by J. K. Rowling and the movie directed by Chris Columbus, it is evident that both depict their main characters as heroes and damsels in distress. Hermione is viewed as fragile and helpless in a time of peril whereas Harry and Ron are viewed as courageous and ready to face anything that comes their way. Sexism differentiates and exaggerates the actions of the main characters, as seen throughout the troll scene, prolonging the ideology of a female’s dependence on men, thus diminishing a female’s sense of equality and ability in society.

The book I read is called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is written by J.K. Rowling. Here is an example of an in text MLA citation of the book. “Harry Potter is dead… He was nothing, ever, but a boy who relied on others to sacrifice themselves for him!” - (Rowling 730).

Thesis: In her novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling includes connection to her own life.

In the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling show a battle of good trying to stop evil from rising. The main character, Harry Potter lives with his his aunt and uncle who hate him and treat him like a nobody. But on Harry's 11th birthday everything turns around for him. He finds out that he's a wizard and that he's been accepted to Hogwarts. After schools starts he becomes great friends with a boy named Ron Weasley and a talented girl named Hermione Granger. As the year goes on the trio find a three headed dog in Hogwarts. Very curious Harry finds out that that dog is protecting the Sorcerer's Stone which could be used to extend the life of the person who drinks it. Harry comes to a theory that Snape, one of his professors,

I have never broken any copyright laws, but I almost did, it would’ve been for getting a movie at a garage sale because the person was trying to sell a movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and also Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, I never knew that it was breaking copyright laws until my dad told me so, so i didn’t get it. But if my dad hadn’t told me so, I would’ve gotten it, and broken the law. Next time I’ll know that it’s copyright and I wouldn’t get it. My actions would’ve affected everyone who helped make the movies.

Today's current society is very linear. In it's core it is tied to rules and regulations that dictate the way things are to behave. There is no better way to break from this box than through art, because truly art is the only escape from the utterly mundane. It is the tool people use to turn what is ordinary, into what is extraordinary. Take the worldwide best selling novel series Harry Potter. Hundreds of Thousands of people have at any point in their lives, picked up Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, and were transported to an amazing world where Wizards and Trolls and Goblins all lived. It is an amazing piece of literature that allows people some release from their otherwise average lives. They could sit down, and not worry about their

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the book written by JK Rowling is a darn amazing book, full of more twist and turns and secrets than a whole school year. Since I know that you’ve only seen the movies, but I have to say the books are way better, especially the book I said in the first sentence of this paragraph. So many secrets are revealed and the atmosphere is darker than your room at night. The book leaves you wanting more, and you wanting to know how the terrible atrocities can be solved (in which they are if you keep going onto the final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). But this book sticks out so much to me and will always have a place in my bookshelf because of the creativity unmatched by any other books and the terrible

Education can have many lasting effects to a person in a positive or negative manner. Institutions that focus on education are subjects to the societal norms and cultural bias. In the story, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J.K. Rowling, a school called Hogwarts shows signs of being culturally pressured to teach forms of racism and superiority to others. Hogwarts methods of teaching have lead to students displaying acts of racism with approval, performing class division starting from early on, and showing favoritism or publicly humiliating students based on bloodline or ability to produce. These actions throughout the story demonstrate that Hogwarts educational methods are institutionally racist and elitist.

Autumn nodded once and settled down behind her desk, still exuding a whimsical and joyful feeling. Eli stared at her, attempting to figure out what had made her so happy, when she glanced up and caught him staring. Her eyes were shimmering brown and they held such a beautiful light in them, that you couldn’t help but smile at. Cheery and free as they were, they held an intensity to them, that contained a little sadness and pain. Those eyes seemed to have seen the heights and depths of the world, its most somber and euphoric moments, its wisdom. They were Emily’s eyes. They called to him in a way he couldn’t

Lucas, on the other hand was in awe. He never thought the bookstore would hold such numbers of bookshelves full of books. Lucas also loved to read books and preferred paper rather than digital eBooks. He was actually new to this town and he didn’t think he’d find a bookstore like this. Even though it was raining hard outside and he could’ve ran to his apartment, the moment his eyes saw the words “Mr. Steorra’s Bookstore”, he knew he had to go in and he felt like as if something was calling for him from the bookstore. Lucas started to scan his eyes through the shelves until he laid his eyes upon an old book. The book seemed to be really old since the title was mostly fading on the spine.