Critical Review (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets-J.K.Rowling)
The good of Harry and his allies overpowers the bad in Voldemort
“Ginny!” said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. “Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain?” The good of Harry and his allies overpowers the bad in Voldemort. Throughout the Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling takes a fantasy and teaches a lesson through 7 books.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets takes place in present-day England described as a nebulous world. Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry is the main setting in the Harry Potter series. The story is written in third person omniscient because the narrator reveals what is happening in other places without having to be there and knows the thoughts of the other characters without directly revealing them to the reader.
Harry Potter is the main character. He is a twelve year old boy with short, black hair and round glasses. In the middle of his forehead sits a lightning bolt shaped scar he received from Lord Voldemort's curse. He is the protagonist of the story. Ronald Weasley is Harry’s best friend. He comes from a poor family with 6 brothers and sisters. He is a tall red-haired boy with freckles which seems to be the dominant trait in the Weasley family. Hermione Granger is Harry’s other best friend. She is a very intelligent girl who is top of her class. She has long, curly, brown hair with bold, brown eyes. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are all dynamic characters because they grow and develop throughout the story.
Lord Voldemort is the antagonist of the story. He is out to destroy Harry Potter. Fifty years ago he attended ...
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...her mood the author tries to portray. It is not very common for bad to outweigh good. Usually doing the right thing and being a good person will benefit you in the end. In the sequel to Harry Potter the good of Harry defeats Voldemort. In the chamber Harry thrusts the fang of the basilisk into Tom Riddle’s diary killing a part of Voldemort. Another example of the theme is when Malfoy buys his way onto his quidditch team and cheating to defeat Harry. During that match Harry plays fair and they won the battle against Malfoy without cheating. `
An example of irony in this novel is when Ron is talking to his sister Ginny because she is upset about the chamber being opened again. He told her they would catch whoever opened the chamber and they would receive a brutal punishment. The irony in this example is that Ginny, unaware, is the one who opened the chamber.
Harry has spent all summer waiting to hear news about Lord Voldemort, a evil wizard that Harry saw return the year before, but nobody believes him. One evening after listening to news ,he decides to go for a walk. He then sees his cousin, who he lives with and hates. They then get in a fight and Harry pulls out his wand and at that exact moment two dementors attack them. Dudley thinks Harry is attacking him so he punches Harry. Harry then heroically saves them both by producing a patronus and driving away the dementors.
selling books to date. This novel, written by Joanne Kathleen Rowling, sold almost two million copies within the first 24 hours of its worldwide release. Its astounding and unique plot twists thrill readers of all ages. Having won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers in 2003, and the Anthony Award for Best Young Adult Mystery in 2004, the popularity of the Harry Potter books continues to grow. This novel tells the story of Harry James Potter, a boy wizard who has witnessed the return of the Dark Lord, Voldemort. In the novel, Harry’s story is truthful; however, others believe it to be a rather far fetched lie, resulting in only a select group of people
Protagonists: The main characters are Megan and Charles. Megan and Charles are in the book most of the time thats why there the main characters. Their relationship is that they are family and they live together. Charles and Megan are also friends. In the story Megan and Charles are always there for eachother.
Harry Potter is not a normal boy. He lives with his aunt and uncle and his cousin because his parents were murdered by the most powerful dark lord, Lord Voldemort. He attends a school for wizards called Hogwarts and learns about spells, potions, the dark arts, and etc. Non-magic people are called Muggles and the Muggles are completely oblivious to this world.
Many have come to know and love the stories of Harry Potter, the boy who lived, but what most may not realize is that Harry Potter can have a bad influence on young children and adults. Though the Harry Potter series is a children’s book that is meant to enlighten the imagination of young viewers, it can be misguiding to those cannot comprehend the difference between imagination and real life. The beloved story of Harry Potter can have a negative influence on young children and adults for a variety of reasons.
The evil nature of this individual is made manifest, and thus evil enters the story in a significant way.
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corrupt wizard, Lord Voldemort. Harry finds out that he has been accepted into a school,
One example of dramatic irony is when Oedipus is looking for the killer of the king Laius-his father. The irony here is that he is looking for himself because he is the murder of his father. Oedipus knows that he killed someone, but what he does not know is that it was Laius, the one he murder. Oedipus wants to punish the person who killed Laius, but we, the audience know that Oedipus was the one who killed Laius. Also Oedipus married Jocasta without knowing that she is his mother. We, the audience knew that he was Jocasta's son, but he was unaware of that.
Ever since J.K. Rowling first introduced Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 1997, children and adults have read and loved the series. It has gained such popularity that all of the books have been made into major motion pictures, and a Harry Potter attraction has been opened in Universal Studios, Florida. Though the readers love Rowling’s intricate and exciting story lines, many controversies have arisen from these stories, not only in the United States, but also in various countries around the world. Perhaps the biggest controversy is the religious implications perceived by some critics. Although these critics believe that the series promotes paganism and encourages evil actions, these theories should not be taken so seriously.
There are so many examples of situational irony that is clear throughout these stories Mr. Mallard being dead, Mama finally realizes that Maggie deserves the quilts because she understands her heritage better than Dee, Mathilde finding out she worked her whole life for nothing, and when Mr. Graves tells Tessie that Eva draws with her husband's family, Tessie is angry. Dramatic irony is everywhere as well. Louise dies from the shock of seeing her husband who is supposed to be dead and when Dee never wanted anything to do with her heritage until somebody was impressed by it.
Another illustration of irony is the way Nora treats her children as if they were dolls. This is situational irony because Nora is treated like a doll by her husband, and by her father when he was alive. She says "I passed out of Daddy's hands into yours.
...ck and a potential pitfall. Someone full of hate and greed, such as Tom Marvolo Riddle, who has never known it even once in their entire life, cannot understand its full magical power. Love is one of the hardest and strongest kinds of magic and is perhaps the fabric that holds the wizarding world of Harry Potter together. Dumbledore says to Harry “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love” (Harry Potter and the Deathly Halllows 722). The series stresses that it is important to love. It is obvious throughout the series that Harry embraces his history and duty by accepting the soul-purifying act of practicing self-sacrificial love. It is no surprise that the Harry Potter series is so widely in a time of fear, uncertainty, and unrest. Harry defeats evil not by fearing it, but by embracing it and overcoming it with love.
Creator of the most famous and best loved character in contemporary fiction, J.K Rowling is also the author of her own escape from a depressing existence on the verge of destitution. On the one hand, there is J.K Rowling who wrote the ‘Harry Potter’ novels, ‘The Casual Vacancy’ and ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’; the literary phenomenon of the nineties and present day. On the other, there is Joanne Rowling (the ‘J.K’ was her agent’s marketing notch), a dreamy, rather shy, but passionate woman whose brilliance in translating her dreams into prose changed her life. In January 1994, she was broke and jobless, struggling to bring up a young child in a small rented flat in Edinburgh. Just six years later, with her first book transformed into a major Hollywood film, she was reportedly worth £65 million (Smith 2001).
One of the most distinguishing characteristics of children's films is the centrality of the moral. Although Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone teaches children many lessons, but the main one is that good will always conquer evil. Right from the beginning of the film, audiences are shown how poorly Harry gets treated ...