Harry Potter and the Sorcerer 's Stone by J.K Rowling is the first book in the award winning Harry Potter series. It is about an orphaned boy who on his eleventh birthday discovers that his biological parents are wizards, and that he too is actually a wizard living in the muggle word. Through out the novel, one can see that Harry Potter is a hero archetype. He embarks on a magical adventure through the wizarding world and uncovers the stories from his mysterious past. Throughout his journey Harry learns and grows from the whimsy little boy living under the stairs to one of the most inspirational wizards that defeats the Dark Lord. Despite Harry entering this magical journey there are hardships along the way. Harry has mentors by his side that lead and enable him to becoming a stronger person which leads him into becoming a hero. Harry Potter’s life is a bumpy due to living a miserable life with his aunt and uncle and losing his parents at a young age. The ordinary world he lives is a complete nightmare because his aunt, uncle, and cousin do not treat him like the darling nephew/cousin he is. For instance, one morning Harry was casually sleeping and he gets out of bed due to his aunt screaming at him. Harry , …show more content…
Harry started to get excitement when he went school supply shopping with Hagrid. When, Harry though went to buy the last thing on his shopping list for Hogwarts, it hit him that his world has changed. Harry , “took the wand [,and] felt a sudden warmth in his fingers (66). Touching that magical wand gave Harry Potter a special feeling. It gave him the feeling of ignite passion. Harry Potter has the ignite passion to commit to learning the art of wizardry. Harry knows that living in the wizarding world, is a positive move and will better suit him then living with his uncles and cousin. This is the moment in the story that the adventure will get on
Before one can be considered a true hero, they must complete a series of eleven steps that put them up to the test. More simply, they must start with departure, then initiation, and finally return home. Harry Potter in Harry Potter the Sorcerer's Stone, courageously completes all of these steps and is therefore considered a hero. He strong-willingly embarks on a journey that challenges his limits and tests his bravery. Without any support from his family, and being the despised child, he defeats his enemy, Voldemort. To push through the worst challenges, and starting from nothing is what makes a true hero. As Joseph Campbell stated, “You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone
In the beginning Harry is being picked up by Mrs. Connin and it immediately becomes obvious that his parents lives revolve around partying. After Henrys father does a terrible job of dressing him because he’s still half asleep from partying the night before Mrs. Connin says “I couldn’t smell
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a book about a boy named Harry Potter who is a wizard. Its setting is in London, which is where Harry lives. The time element is supposed to be present day, but it is a fiction book.
Harry’s frequently experienced injustice is witnessed since the very beginning of the novel. His alienation from both the wizarding world and muggle (non magical) world cause Harry to long for the acceptance of his truthful story. Since Voldemort’s return occurred at the end of Harry’s fourth year at Hogwarts, his summer at Number 4 Privet Drive has been far from enjoyable (Chappell). If anything, it caused Harry anxiety, frustration, and anticipation of the horrible events to come (Chappell). Harry’s alienation first stems from the Ministry of Magic. When two dementors (magical hooded figures who guard the wizard prison, Azkaban) wandered into Harry’s neighborhood, he used magic to defend himself and his cousin, Dudley (Rowling 17). Because of this, the Ministry of Magic accused Harry of breaking the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery (Rowling 27). They made sure to enforce the “illegality” of Harry’s actions when they threatened to confiscate and destroy his wand (Rowling 62, 27). Harry, who had done nothing except defend himself in a life-threatening situation, felt alienated when the Minister of Magic himself would not believe his
But this was not the sole thing which added to his uneasiness. He did not find an appropriate dancing partner for the Christmas party. Harry wanted to have a romantic story with Cho Chang, but he fell into the clutches of Voldemort by degrees. The part of this book, which appeals to me most is not the emotions of these youngsters. Actually they were childish from my perspective. The emotions the Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort had are more compelling for me to look into. Why was Bartemius Crouch Jr. so obedient to Voldemort? Why did Voldemort kill his father and grandparents? “Both of us, for instance, had very disappointing fathers...very disappointing indeed. Both of us suffered the indignity, Harry, of being named after those fathers. And both of us had the pleasure...the very great pleasure...of killing our fathers to ensure the continued rise of the Dark Order!” In point of fact, such tragedies and conflicts are the most
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.
Just to quickly run through the two previous books; Harry Potter is a wizard, who’s parents were killed by the worst dark wizard ever known. The reason why Harry Potter is still around, is because Lord Voldemort failed to kill Harry. His spell hit Harry, but then backfired on Voldemort taking all of his powers with him. Harry is so famous for two things. Withstanding the powers of Lord Voldemort, and, taking him back in to the underworld in hiding. In the first book, Harry receives a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He’s eventually allowed to go, and spends the next six months there learning magic, getting into trouble, and trying to solve mysteries of his past, and the school. In the second book, Harry goes back to his second year at Hogwarts, and gets into more trouble, figures out many astonishing mysteries and learns loads more magic. His best friends in the two books consist of Ron and Hermione (two of his fellow wizard students) and Hagrid the gamekeeper who was expelled from Hogwarts but allowed a job as the gamekeeper.
Both Harry and Jane had to bear the difficulty of being treated in an unjust environment. Harry had the cupboard underneath the stairs for his room, he wore hand-me-down oversized clothes that were outgrown by his cousin, he was often asked to do errands at home, he was constantly been kept from visitors, he was bullied by his cousin, and he suffered neglect and had to endure the insults and rude words that came from his aunt and uncle. Jane had a similar fate as Harry. Having been brought up in a house that treated her as a burden and constantly demoralized her, she had to endure physical and emotional abuse from her aunt and cousins. She was discouraged from socializing with other people including her own cousins and was excluded from family events. Even her three c...
Harry had an issue at home with his parents who did not do what a real parent would do, not experiencing the outside world, having parents who come home late and does not take care of their son. Although my personal life is not exactly the same as his, I can connect to it. My parents are not party members but they
In his own eyes, Harry is a poor nobody. He is young, modest, and innocent, living a sheltered life and naïve to the immensity of the world. The truth is that Harry is a victim to elements of another world. For instance, the dark Lord Voldemort, an evil wizard, attempts to kill Harry and ends up destroying his family, leaving him with his cruel relatives. Otherwise unharmed, Harry is left with his lightening bolt scar on his forehead representing his terrible past, marking his fame, and symbolizing his destiny. Even though Harry leads a boring, ordinary life on Privet Drive with “the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious” (1), Harry’s scar hints at something more than ordinary,
At the start of the book, Harry was forty-seven and was upset over the belief that he had two separate being that made up his soul, a wolf, and a man, that he decides to kill himself at the age of fifty. After being given a book that spoke about the Steppenwolf, and explained that people are not singular or even two being, they are much more than that. Harry refused the idea and claims that the book did not know him. After being rude to a professor's wife, he believed his wolf side has beaten what was left of his humanity and planned to kill himself early. He stopped at a bar and met a woman named Hermine, who made it her duty to open him up to life. With her help Harry learned to stop analyzing everything and to love life and what it has to offer. Towards the end of the book, at Fancy Dress Ball Harry allowed himself to be immersed in the dancers and eventually was led from their to the school of laughter, where he learns that laughter is the most important thing to help people get through life (Hesse, Steppenwolf). Throughout the plot, Sartre’s belief that people need to take responsibility for their own lives is shown, as Harry’s failure of it almost leads to his suicide, yet his acceptance of it saves him (Baker, “Existentialist of Note”). Harry lets himself float through life lonely and depressed, unwilling to change in fear of losing his independence. Yet Hermine
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One of the most read series in all literature is Harry Potter. The seven-book succession has sold over 400 million copies and has been translated into over sixty languages. What is it that makes this series so wildly famous? What is it about the boy who lived that makes frenzied readers flock to their local bookstore at midnight on the day of the release to buy the latest installment? How is a story set in a world that doesn’t exist about wizards, witches, magic, and mystical creatures so popular? The series has been able to earn its spot on the New York Times Bestseller list and has granted author J.K. Rowling multiple awards because it is relatable. It is not the setting or the events in the plot of the story that we relate to. We relate to what Harry, his friends, mentors, teachers, caretakers, and even enemies feel. Harry is in a lot of ways exactly like us. He represents some of the good characteristics that all of us have as well as the bad. The series as a whole, is about one thing that is stressed over and over again in the novels, love. The Harry Potter series is one of the most read sequences of novels because the central theme is love and self-sacrifice, and readers are looking for a novel that shows them just that.
Harry Potter starts off slow, but gets very interesting near the end. In the beginning, you meet the Dursleys, Harry’s aunt, uncle, and their son Dudley. Then you learn that Harry’s parents were witches, and that they were destroyed by a evil wizard. A good witch, Albus Dumbeldoor, sends Harry to the Dursleys, because they’re his only remaining family. The Dursleys however, hated Harry and his family, so Harry was mistreated for years. He was forced to live in a cuborrod under the stairs. He had to watch as the fat, stuck up Dudley got whatever he wanted, and then usually broke whatever it was he got. Then one day Harry got a letter.
This aspect of Harry’s low esteem and lack of identity makes him doubtful and confused. Unfortunately, Harry’s father and mother had been murdered by the evil Wizard, Lord Voldemort. In this family life, Harry is future victimized by the selfishness of Uncle Vernon and his wife. These domestic experiences in the “real world” are grim, as they often involve Harry’s struggle with Uncle Vernon. In this way, Uncle Vernon prevents him realizing his true identity as the son of a famous “pure-blood” wizard. For example, Uncle Vernon prevents Harry from seeing letters from a mysterious writer that seeks to know his