Petunia

maternal, feminine, and feminist characters who support or contrast with themes within the stories. Females, such as Mrs. Weasely, Mrs. Arable, and Ma Costa, identify the feminine quality of domesticity and motherhood. In contrast, Mrs. Coulter and Aunt Petunia are anti-mothers and portray an obsession with secure social status. In turn, some of these qualities are meshed into the heroines

J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has earned the reputation as one of the best fantasy series in children’s fiction. However, due to the uprising and popularity of feminism, the way women are treated in novels became a severe concern. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone includes gender stereotypes and mistreatment of female characteristics which, in certain aspects can be seen as sexist. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone undervalues female characters by judging their appearance

Strangely though, Petunia was still sitting at the table. Almost expectantly, like she was waiting for something. Noticing Harry still standing there, she gave him a nasty glare. “What are you still doing here, boy?” The malice in her tone was evident, as always. Harry sighed

I look at mom, testing our telekinesis power, I think What the fuck is this woman waving a scalpel around for? But mom isn’t receptive. Then Dahlia’s got the scalpel in her hand and Petunia is instructing her how to hold it: index finger on top, middle finger supporting the bottom. Petunia tells Dahlia that she looks good with the scalpel: someone to be reckoned with. Dahlia sees me watching her and she jabs the scalpel towards me. “Watch out world!” she says. Then someone brings up

collect a sample of a purple flower. A few defining characteristics of my flower were its elliptic leaf shape, rounded leaf bases, petiolate attachment, and monochasium inflorescence type. After close analysis, I was able to identify my sample as a petunia. Next, we extracted and purified our samples using liquid nitrogen,

It was a quite a normal fall day out here in Louisiana. The year was 1930, my daughter and I had been out working in the barnyard. “Lauren, work faster the guest will be here soon for Thanksgiving dinner.” I exclaimed to Lauren as she was cleaning the pigsty. Soon we were to have our family and friends come to visit us for Thanksgiving. I don’t necessarily like having guest, since they’re always a lot of cleaning do. Actually, cleaning wasn’t the problem since we lived in a very small house out

lack of physical intimacy and sexual contact in his life was due to his negative body image and not the obvious short-comings in his personality, Miles Petunia agrees that the grass can only get greener from here on him. "Christmas is hard on any person's body, especially when you're genetically predisposed to putting on weight like me," said Petunia. "But in a few weeks, you know,

The sperm whale was trying to come to terms with its identity and thought “What’s happening, who am I, why am I here, what’s my purpose in life?” and the bowl of petunias thought “oh no, not again.” Since the inanimate objects were able to think they were given human traits. This example also shows another literary term, that term is stream of consciousness. “The phrase stream of consciousness refers to an uninterrupted

behind them. Harry and Dudley promptly had a furious but silent fight over who would listen at the keyhole; Dudley won, so Harry, his glasses dangling from one ear, lay flat on his stomach to listen at the crack between door and floor. “Vernon,” Aunt Petunia was saying in a quivering voice, “look at the address — how could they possibly know where he sleeps? You don’t think they’re watching the house?” “Watching — spying — might be following us,” muttered Uncle Vernon wildly. “But what should we do

There is so much beauty in the world that often I am too busy or preoccupied to notice it. As I get older I try to make a conscious effort to focus on the little things in life, things that I take for granted such as nature. Beauty to me can be me is something that typically makes me stop for a moment and appreciate it. Things that I find beautiful can evoke responses in me such as pleasure, curiosity or inspiration. Looking at or listening to something may remind me of a fond memory from my past