Harry Potter 's The Casual Vacancy

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

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

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 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

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." -

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.

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.

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

She was introduced to the world of writing at an early age. Her father was one of the

Although Joanne Rowling is considered to be one of the most successful authors in the industry, she had many obstacles to go through in order to achieve success. Joanne Rowling was born on July, 31st, 1965 in Yate England. During her elementary school years, Joanne Rowling was always interested in reading and writing stories and got influenced from her family to start reading. After graduating Exeter University, she married Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese journalist, and had a daughter named Jessica. Joanne Rowling shortly divorced and lived as a poor single mother and started writing what will be Harry Potter The Sorcerers Stone. Despite her troubles, Joanna Rowling was able to publish the Harry Potter series under the pen name J.K. Rowling

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).

During her adolescent years, Joanne was not particularly close with her father, Peter Rowling. This distance exacerbated after Joanne’s father had remarried to another woman, one year after the death of Anne Volant Rowling in December 1990. Joanne and Dianne Rowling were strongly against this remarriage. Furthermore, the relationship between Joanne and her father aggravated, as Peter sold a rare collection of “Harry Potter” first edition novels to cover his £100,000 debts. These major events caused Joanne and Peter Rowling to ‘share’ an estranged relationship with each other.

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

Jane Austen was born in Hampshire, England on December 16, 1775. Her father was Reverend George Austen and her mother was Cassandra Leigh Austen. Jane was the youngest daughter of a large, close family. She had six brothers and one sister. She was especially close to her sister and brother, Cassandra and Henry. When Jane was eight, she and her sister were sent to Oxford and then Southampton. Because of an outbreak of typhus, a bacterial disease spread by lice or fleas, Jane nearly died. After this, both girls returned home. Jane and her sister then attended the Reading Ladies Boarding School, where they studied spelling, French, dancing, music and needlework. Jane continued to expand her knowledge after she left school. Under the supervision of her father, Jane learned to become the great author she is known as.

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