Harry Potter and A Life Changed Essay

One person should not have the right to ban one single book and its series from an entire school district. This novel captivates many different kinds of people even including the sports fans and is a great public book to read (Rowling). Harry Potter has created some frightening incidents, but you can't blame the Harry Potter (Aferguson). A public place is a place that is opened to a variety of cultures and different views. That is why a public school is considered public because it is supposed to be opened to all kinds of beliefs and views. This is a place for open-minded people to experience different situations and a variety of people. There are so many magnificent creations and life experiences that you can learn from this novel because people decided to explore out of their own little bubble and not think of it as evil (Aferguson). There are all kinds of different arts everywhere from around the world and not all of it is going to be the same, which makes the public unique.

One of my first memories as a child was my mom reading to me. There was a tornado warning, so we all rushed to the basement and crammed ourselves into the back bedroom. To calm my hysteria from wailing sirens and howling winds, my mom pulled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone off the shelf and began to read. The storm faded away and I was absorbed in a magical universe. Over the next year, she read the whole series to me, and ever since then, the power of words and the English language fascinated me.

In the bible it says that wizards, devils and demons exist and are powerful and dangerous. People have a fear that any books with good witches, wizards and good magic will lead people to take the bible’s teachings lightly and may convince them to become witches. Another reason that Harry Potter is banned is that it sets unsatisfactory examples for kids reading the book by Harry and his friends disobey, lie and break rules. People think that kids reading the books will think they can get away with things that they normally would not get away with. A third reason that Harry Potter is banned is it is too eerie and dark. The battles that the characters are required to go through and how the characters die is too

What would you do if you awoke one morning to find that you were a living legend. That for the past twenty years your family has been known to all, as one of the most prominent wizarding families in the wizarding world. What would YOU do if you were regarded as ... a modern HERO. The only wizard ever to survive a powerful curse cast by Voldemort, the most powerful dark wizard; Harry was just a baby when he was attacked by the evil wizard. But he escaped the curse and had somehow managed to reverse it and take away Voldemort's power. This story was told for 11 years past only making the story of Harry Potter grow to become an even greater living legend.

The book Harry Potter and the Half-blood prince, is part of the Harry Potter book series by JK. Rowling. This particular book is about Harry learning more about Voldemort’s past, and trying to unfold a plot that Harry believes is happening inside of Hogwarts. “Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince” by JK. Rowling have been tossed back and forth about being banned over the years. The book was banned in many schools and libraries, due to the fact that many Christian parents and teachers believe that their children should not be exposed to the acts of sorcery and witchcraft. The book should not have been banned because there is nothing truly bad in this book, it will just make kids think more.

I had a couple years during middle school where I didn’t read as much, but when I started Seventh Grade I remember reading The Mortal Instruments series, and I fell in love with it. I would stay up late at night just to finish the next Chapter. By the end of the semester, I had finished all six of them and I still love reading them even

"Harry Potter has been in the 1990-1999 and 2000-2009 “Frequently Challenged Books” lists and currently is on the “Frequently Challenged Children’s Books” list." (bannedbooksweek.org). “When it came out, some people said the book was about Satan and promoted witchcraft.” (LaRue, 2016). This reasoning cause parents to file complaint to schools asking them to remove the books from their libraries. Some school even had to require a permission slip from the children’s parents. Now not all parents were like this. Some parents did not see the comparison with magic as Satanic but as another fantasy book like The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia. Other parents thought the censorship was absurd and a few of them took actions to voice that opinion. For example: Counts v. Cedarville School District. In this case, Cedarville school board voted that the Harry Potter books would require a permission slip if a child wish to check it out. This vote infuriated some parents so much that they took it court. The parents argued that this vote was against the First Amendment and won the case requiring all libraries in that district to get rid of the permission slips. Even though the book series has ended, there is still controversy over it

Human beings are like heroes, they have their own journeys to partake on, most of the time this journey is called "life". And just like heroes human beings have their own nemesis, their own sets of trials and challenges to conquer, goals and motives to achieve, as well as a mindset to be able to prove themselves to others that they are capable. A philosopher named Joseph Campbell, made a theory about the journey of a hero. In his theory, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" talks about the hero going through a series of process the main ones being the hero's "retreat from the world" meaning the separation or departure of the hero, the hero's "initiation" in other words his triumphs

The Harry Potter books make witchcraft and the practice of magic seem appealing and fun; therefore, parents shouldn't allow their children to read them.

Harry Potter has been a best selling book series around the world. Due to its content about magic there have been some Christian groups who have been trying to ban the books. The groups have been banning the books based on the reasoning of it containing magic, possession, and blood sacrifices. The argument, like any other, has two sides, one being people who have actually read the books and know what it is about and its meaning, and the other being people who believe that the books promote witchcraft. (Although yes they do contain witchcraft they do not ever promote it)

The Harry Potter books are about a boy who learns he has special powers and attends a school called Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Here we find trials against good and evil, where good triumphs. There have been some parents who have protested these books and have been trying to get them banned from

JK Rowling had engulfed me in her writing, taking me into the world of Hogwarts. Consequently, some days the books had to be pried from my hands by an exasperated mum. This didn't stop me, however. Day and night, night and day, I read whilst I ate, I read whilst I bathed, listening to audio books when reading was

I discovered the series “Harry Potter.” I can’t recollect where I first heard of or found these books, but I do vividly remember reading them and loving them. I can remember reading the entire series in a matter of 5-6 months. Something you should know about Harry Potter: they are very long novels. The longest of the 7 stories is over 800 pages long, and the shortest being about 350. I recall heaving up each book with my youthful, weak arms. I was reading extremely long novels that were above my elementary school reading level while my peers in my class were still struggling with the classroom story books. Thinking about it now, I’m still not sure if that was just because I was just more driven to read more, or if I was just plain ahead of

In 1997, the first book of the Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling, was released in the United States. Soon, the Harry Potter craze took over the United States and the seven book series became the most popular series on the market because of its fictional setting and fantastical world unlike our own. However, just as quickly as it was becoming the most popular series to read, it was also becoming the most banned series of that time, for numerous reasons that made parents despise the idea of their children reading such mythical stories. Harry Potter became popular in a very short period of time because of the way readers could relate and place themselves in the story. Harry Potter is a constant repetition of three best friends-

Periodically while surfing the internet I encounter a page entitled "Books That Changed My Life", with a list of books that purportedly changed the life of the author. I am always irritated by these pages, because I never see any evidence that the books had actually changed the life of the author. In fact, for most of these pages a more appropriate title would have been "Books that I really, really liked a lot." Occasionally, it might have been called "Books that influenced my thinking," but I'm reluctant to refer to that as having changed one's life.