Essay about The Fame and Fortune of J.K. Rowling

It is clear that the Harry Potter series has taken a journey on the Hogwarts Express to the road of international success. The “Harry Potter” series is the story of the eponymous boy, orphaned at birth and left in the care of the aunt and uncle along with the ill mannered son who make up the Dursley family who are known as “Muggles” (non-magical people). On Harry's eleventh birthday, Harry receives a letter from Hogwarts, a school that grooms young wizards and witches, and promptly enters a world of wonder and mystery. At Hogwarts, he meets his two closest friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger who begin there adventure together through love, friendship and learning about magic. Harry learns very soon that the death of his parents was no

All this has added to the growing popularity of the Harry Potter brand that is everywhere today. Young readers can relate to Harry’s issues and the books create another world the readers can subconsciously ‘escape’ too.

Hundreds of students, parents, and faculty members gathered and created an audience to witness J.K Rowling’s speech at Harvard University in 2008. J.K Rowling is a well-known author, famous for her Harry Potter book series, and much more. Rowling’s speech was well thought out, and delivered excellently, with three main points she addresses throughout the speech. The three points being: failure can lead a person to success, never give up hope on your dreams and aspirations, and lastly Rowling emphasizes the importance of imagination. Sometimes we fail to see that the obstacles in our life help shape the road to our success in the future, and Rowling points out to us that failures and obstacles is what helped us become successful , and to never ignore that.

C.S. Lewis is one of the greatest authors in history. His books are still widely available and sold to many interested readers. In Lewis’ childhood, he experienced a tragedy that affected his belief in god; in his middle life, he mainly focused on college and his studies, but his father’s death played a role in Lewis later becoming a Christian. In Lewis’ later life, he married one of his own fans. Clive’s passion for writing began when he was a small child, and it continued to grow as he furthered his education to become a college professor at Oxford University. Lewis is still remembered today for his great works, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia, which is a popular series among children.

I have never been as comfortable with people made of flesh and bone than I have been with those made of words. Whatever information I lose in the contours of the human face, I have no trouble locating in the unchanging, permanent text of a book. There is something about literature that felt safe to me; the worlds created within far more welcoming to little girls with problems fitting in than the one outside the pages. For this reason, fiction, from Harry Potter to The Book Thief, has remained my greatest passion ever since I learned to read.

The book took the literary world by storm selling nearly twelve million copies within the first twenty-four hours. Although the brilliant mind behind the Harry Potter series is most famously known for her success, the reality she faced before becoming the critically acclaimed author was anything but magical. The loss of J.K. Rowling’s mother early on became the determination she needed to finish the first of many distinguished publications. Identically, the characters Nemo from Finding Nemo and the orphaned brothers from the short story Strays find that life can be unfair, unkind, and unpredictable. Nonetheless, tragedy can become the fuel to develop maturity and encourage the creative thinking that brings on achievement.

Humans have always loved stories, from magical ones filled with wonders, to the everyday life reciting’s. Humans crave stories; they crave the moment of going to a magical land of wonders that exceed their own lives. Such is the case with books. Books hold the magic of binding a story and making it immortal. Creating a world that shall never be forgotten, whilst always adding new members. Unfortunately not all see books as a valuable relic. Most people nowadays do not even deem books as worthy of their time at any given moment. Nevertheless, some books do have the power to make even books haters yearn for more and are read even centuries after they were first published. The article ”How Harry Saved Reading” written by Norman Lebrecht in 2011 dives into the subject of how J.K.Rowling managed to make

Joanne Rowling was born on July 31st, 1965 at Yate General Hospital just outside Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales.(Source #5). When Joanne was little, she was always reading. (Source 5), she even wrote a book at six and called it Rabbit (Source #1), and when she was eleven she wrote a book about cursed diamonds.(Source #3). Joanne went to school At Exeter Uni and had a library fine of about 69.54. (Source #5). She also taught Writing in Portugal (Source #5). Rowling got the idea for Harry Potter on a train to Manchester, (Source #2), she was a single mom when she was writing her first book, but still managed to write best selling books. (Source #1), and she was helped by the government until the release of her first book. (Source #2).

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." -

Rowling invites responders to consider the culturally unpopular notion of failure as a means of realising our full potential. Rowling’s lowered head and personal anecdotes climaxing in “I was the biggest failure I knew” establishes her previous assumptions that aligned with society’s, of failure as negative. Consistent first person highlights her evocative personal discovery, illustrated through the determined tone as “failure became the solid foundation for which I rebuilt my life.” Personification of failure exaggerates the far reaching and transformative benefits that her discovery had on her individual life. Just like Nasht invites his audience to vicariously discover humanity’s insignificance, Rowling engages her contemporary audience

Back in 1990, JK Rowling was inspired to write the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train ride to London’s King Cross (Bloomsbury). She began writing the first notes for the future series, amassing thousands of paper notes about the possible story. Finally, in 1997 Ms. Rowling released the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone through Bloomsbury Publishers (Bloomsbury). The book soon became a bestseller and “the Harry Potter series is now published in 78 languages, with over 450 million copies sold across the world” (Bloomsbury). This popular series has also inspired eight movies, a play, and a themed amusement park.

“So, Harriet, I have not gotten a chance to read your book yet, can you tell all of us about it?” My sister spoke, I almost cried. I was sick and tired of Harriet this, Harriet that. I looked over to Harriet she looked as if she was preening in the spotlight talking about some part in her book.

“I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word” said the famous Stephenie Meyer. Stephanie Meyer surely proved that she does like to write things that are longer by writing a 13 chapter book that could have been cut down to 10 chapters. As a result we all now Stephanie Meyer because she is the author of the Twilight Saga series. After taking a look at the life and work of Stephanie Meyer, it is apparent that this Write deserves recognition as a profound author.

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

Using imagination and creativity, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has defined literature as transformative. In this seven-book series J.K Rowling imagined and creatively pieced together a fantasy world of muggles, wizards, tyrants, and heroes to symbolically share with readers problems plaguing modern society. Similar to Shelley’s work of the past, never before have readers in the modern era seen teenage and adult mania surrounding an 11-year-old wizard. Some will argue that J.K. Rowling’s young-adult series lacks depth or wants to twist young minds by using magic and evil, but through close examination it is evident that