“‘The truth.’ Dumbledore sighed. ‘It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.’ (J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 298).”
Those few words of wisdom come from the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The Harry Potter books are works of art, written by J.K Rowling; a woman with an impressive life that greatly influenced her writings, especially those of the Potter series. J.K Rowling’s real name is Joanne Rowling. When she was going to release the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Jo’s publisher decided that a female author would not appeal as much to young male readers and suggested she change her name. She instead used the extra initial of K, for her favorite grandparent Kathleen, who passed away shortly before the book was finished. (Biography). Rowling’s parents had met at King’s Cross, which later influenced her decision to use this place in her books. When her mother was twenty years old she had Jo in Chipping Sodbury, England; the date was July 31, 1965, the same day the fictional character Harry Potter was born. One year and eleven months later Jo’s sister, Di, was born. When Jo was four years old, her and her family moved to Winterbourne. This is where she fell in love with the name Potter. A young boy in her neighborhood had Potter as a last name, and since Jo was always teased about her name, ‘Rowling stone’, she often fantasied that she had the last name Potter. Here in Winterbourne is also where she met Sean Harris “getaway driver and foul-weather friend (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, dedication).”, to whom the book Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is dedicated to. He owned a Ford Angila, which also plays the role of getting the boys, Harry and Ron, into a sticky situation, and then later getting them out of an even stickier one. Jo attended
She had to have put in an abundance of time and research in order find and make these allusions, but she did so in order to create a further depth and meaning to her characters. J.K Rowling stated, “I love freakish names and I have always been interested in folklore and I think it was a logical thing for me to end up writing” (“What Jo Says About”). Through Rowling’s interest in mythological folklore, she ingeniously links her characters to those of classical mythology, which only proves to add complexity and strength to her characters. Readers who are educated on these classical counterparts will be entranced by their similarities and will have a further connection to these particular characters due to the new depth they hold. Through comparing and contrasting the similar roles, readers will be able to have a stronger background and sense of who this wizarding character is with the groundbreaking resemblances to the classical figures. J.K. Rowling does a remarkable job with creating the etymology of her characters’ names and does amazing work by extending her allusions so that their portrayals closely resemble the traits and behaviors of their classical namesake. Although this can often be found in fiction, the extent and detail that Rowling puts into her etymological work is scarcely found in modern literature. Through her characters’ names and classical folklore background, Rowling continues and modernizes these Greek/Roman mythological figures, grounds her wizarding characters, and adds even more magic into her
Jk Rowling is living a very successful life. On July 31st of 1965 Joanne Rowling was born. She moved to Edinburgh Scotland as a single mother after an abusive marriage to live closer to her sister. December 26th 2001 Rowling married again to Dr. Neil Murray. They had two children and Rollings child from her previous marriage.
Nonexperimental Research (McMillan, 2012, p.13): Nonexperimental research is a quantitative research design in which the researcher has no control over any of the variables or factors within a study, and thus cannot influence the behavior of the subjects of the study.
As time progresses in both Lord Of the Flies and “I Only Came To Use the Phone”, the characters show definite sings of savagery. The authors of these stories show the change from civilization and reduction to the characters’ basic, primitive nature. In the beginning of Lord Of the Flies, the young boys are deserted on an island due to their plane crashing. Once on the island, they find each other and begin to assemble. They come together as a big group and elect a leader. There are other boys in charge of certain tasks that need to be accomplished. A conch shell found on the beach is used as a way to call a meeting. This reaction to sudden change shows an instinct in humans that, when something goes wrong, people try to keep as normal of a schedule as possible. The boys use this make-shift kind of government because they realize that they need some type of structure in their lives.
Joanne Rowling is J.K Rowling’s first name. Her publisher told her she should use a more feminine name, to appeal to young boy readers. So she chose to use J.K. J standing for Joanne and K standing for Kathleen the name of her grandmother. Joanne was born in July of 1965 in England. She grew up in Chepstow, Gwent. After Joanne started writing the first Harry Potter book she moved to Northern Portugal. She got married in October of 1992 and had her first baby girl a year later. After her marriage ended, she...
The Harry Potter books are filled with characters that are full of many virtues. First, Harry Potter himself is amazing and rather virtuous. In every book, he shows some type of fortitude. Second, Hermione Granger. In my eyes, this young lady is the most prudent person in the book. Lastly, Dumbledore. He has so much faith in Harry Potter even when others doubt him. Overall the Harry Potter characters are wise, courageous, and faithful.
J. K. Rowling was born as Joanna Rowling on July 31, 1965 in Yate, England. Dianne, her younger sister who was born 2 years after Joanna. Joanna and her family live in Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, until she was 9 and they moved to Tutshill, near Chepstow. She grew up around books and from early age she knew she wanted to be a writer.
O.U.T; OUT. This man went on to say that J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter was stolen from the story Earthsea by Ursula K. Guin. Anger flushed through be as the this man before me gave a bad name to my childhood hero in front of the class. From that one incident in class I saw myself having conversations with other students about the topic and how no one believed it, because this was J.K. Rowling we were talking about she's an absolute goddess compared to this lady.
J. K. Rowling constructed the magical world of Harry Potter in the 1990s, and the first film adaptation was released in 2001. Although Rowling’s primary focus was writing, she also worked as a producer and consultant on the Harry Potter films (cite). Within this enchanting world of magic, Harry Potter emerges as the hero of the story. Specifically, Harry is portrayed as a typical British schoolboy hero, in which Ramaswamy describes, “In British schoolboy fashion, Harry underplays his intelligence and is frightened of acquiring a scholarly image” (cite). In fact, it is this representation as an ordinary schoolboy that supports Harry’s role as a modern hero that defies epic characteristics.
Do not judge a book by its cover. This line is not only for books but it is for people because you do not really know what or who something is in the inside and what they really are. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury, on the planet Venus it has not stopped raining for seven years. This young girl name Margot had believed the sun was going to come out. The school children were being rude and disrespectful towards Margot’s beliefs.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling is a world-known British author, and she is best known for her ”Harry Potter” series. Rowling is also one of the wealthiest women. In Harry Potter, she expresses the goodness in people, and her imagination gives Harry Potter the possibility of achieving something, even though his life is tough. That is also what Rowling wants the graduates to know, in her speech ““The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination”, at Harvard University in 2008.
“Every child in our world will know his name!” says Professor McGonagall in the beginning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling 13). Little did J.K. Rowling know that line would become a fact in our world, since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has taken the world by storm since it was first released in 1997. One thing that makes this book so popular for adults and children alike is the emphasis of the importance of love and friendship. Love and friendship is a theme that develops the plot lines and the characters throughout the story, but also gives the readers a sense of wholeness that adds to the readers’ takeaway of the book.
This source was used to emphasize the effect that the Harry Potter books had on people. This dips into both the pro and con of this topic because it includes the effect of both movie and book.
“A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair” (pg 46). The previous passage is a wonderful and tasteful description of the first introduction of Hagrid from J. K. Rowling’s novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This book gives intimate detail and overwhelming amounts of vivid description into the characters, settings and conflicts that arise in the book. If there is are aspects to really note about Harry Potter it is the wonderful and imaginative language and the parallels of similarity between situations Harry is involved with in the book to true situations everyday people experience.
Not only has J.K. Rowling influenced many women around the world, but she also has impacted many peoples’ lives. J.K. Rowling was a single mother trying to support her only daughter. She proved to single women that she doesn’t need a man to survive. J.K. Rowling shows females that they are just as capable as men. An editor of Good Housekeeping said “Everyone felt J.K. Rowling was the one with the most influence across the widest audience. As a single parent who managed to cope and pull herself out of poverty and create a massive entertainment empire on the way, she is very inspiring” (Nicholson). Rowling shows women that they don’t have to have super-model looks, or a wonderful voice to be noticed by society; they don’t need that to be an inspiration to people of all ages. Those important words to keep in mind underscore one of J.K. Rowling’s characters sayings, “Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure” (Rowling). Rowling believes that people need to use their brains and a hop in their step to make it in this world. Rowling is such an inspiration for people everywhere, not only women- “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve” (Rowling). In 2010, J.K. Rowling was voted Britain’s most influential woman. She topped the list of over 100 women who have the most influence in the lives of the Briti...