J. K. Rowling's Resilience
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J.K. Rowlingś Story of Resilience Many people believe that J.K. Rowling was a success as soon as Harry Potter was done. This, however, is not true. J.K had many rough points in her life, which she was forced to overcome. J.K Rowling has shown resilience throughout most of her life, she encountered problems in college, got divorced and lost family members, and Harry Potter was rejected many times after completion. J.K. Rowling showed resilience throughout her childhood and in collage. On the website Groiler.com William Touponce wrote, ¨She dreamed of becoming a writer, but her parents convinced her to study french.¨ J.K. Rowling´s parents believed her imagination was useless and would lead to poverty, and ruin her life. J.K. Rowling had swapped her major to English Literature. Her parents didn't learn of this until her graduation day! The speech Fringe Benefits of Failure by J.K. Rowling stated ¨What I feared most for myself was not poverty, but failure.¨ Until graduation J.K. Rowling's whole life had been based on passing exams and getting A´s, This cause fear in failure, but no fear in being poor! J.K. Rowling believed she could make a living out of writing …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Opines that j.k. rowling's story of resilience is not true. she had many rough points in her life, which she was forced to overcome.
- Analyzes how j.k. rowling showed resilience throughout her childhood and in collage.
- Narrates how j.k. rowling's divorce, cancer, depression, and depression led to her being left to raise her daughter alone with depression and poor unemployment benefits.
- Opines that even though harry potter was finished, j.k. rowling's story wasn't over yet. publishers believed her writing was childish and she would fail.
- Analyzes how j.k rowling showed resilience in college, after a divorce and losing family members, and when harry potter was rejected. she never gave up and proved those who doubted her wrong.
Rowling story wasn't over yet! When J.K rowling went to get Harry poter published she was denied, she was denied many times. Publishers believed her writing was ¨childish¨ and she would fail. The website Itrzone stated ¨She got so many rejections for her 1999 novel that she had made a sculpture out of them.¨ (McCormack). J.K. Rowling didn't want to give up, but at this point it seemed like she might have to. ¨I wasn't going to give up until every single publisher turned me down, but I often feared that would happen.¨ (McCormack). One publisher looked at J.K.´s work with her daughter, the publisher's daughter had read a small portion and begged to read more. That is what it took to get HarryPotter published, and the publisher still told J.K. to get another
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- Narrates how rowling was struck with the idea of the harry potter series while aboard a delayed manchester to london train ride.
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- Opines that jk rowling is an influential person because her love for writing started at a young age, all of her trust funds, and her success with the harry potter series.
- Narrates how jk rowling is living a very successful life. she moved to edinburgh scotland after an abusive marriage to live closer to her sister.
- Narrates how joanne went to michael's primary school before going to wyedean school and college. she graduated from exeter university in 1990 and moved to portugal to teach english.
- Explains that jk rowling has done so many things throughout her career. she made a book series of seven books called harry potter and the philosopher's stone.
- Explains that jk rowling has lived an unbelievable life. she won the lifetime achievement award, british book awards in 2008, and worked in the london office of amnesty international.
- Analyzes how rowling created the harry potter series based on her own life. she suffered clinical depression after losing her mother and unsuccessful marriage.
- Explains that jk rowling is an influential person because her love for writing started at a young age, all of her trust funds, and her success with the harry potter series.
- Describes anne rowling's net worth and doctors without borders' website.
- Explains that jk rowling and her father haven't spoken in over a decade.
- Cites the times article about jk rowling and her father having not spoken in almost a decade.
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- Analyzes how the harry potter series has been controversial due to some thinking that the books promote a dangerous point of view.
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- Analyzes how harry potter and the half-blood prince's magical experiences are described by rowling as if the reader is experiencing it along with them.
- Analyzes how harry was able to look into the evil lord's thoughts and find his weaknesses. the death of dumbledore symbolizes that evil shall now rule and goodness has left the world.
- Analyzes how j.k. rowling takes the theme of "good vs. evil" to a whole new level in harry potter and the deathly hallows
- Concludes that j.k. rowling's masterpiece series has captivated audiences, but has also been surrounded in controversy.
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- Explains that j.k rowling spent a lot of time imagining and came up with imaginary things to make her books interesting.
- Analyzes how rowling's fairy tale, plus a build dungs roman, murder mystery, and cosmic war of good vs evil, makes them interesting for readers.
- Explains that many elderly people would say that imagination is a waste of time. they think you should use your time working and learning.
- Concludes that imagination can lead to great things. j.k rowling created something many people would enjoy.
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- Analyzes how j.k. rowling's seven-book harry potter series has spawned movies, numerous games, clothing, toy lines, and many other items.
- Analyzes how albus dumbledore is harry's mentor throughout the series even beyond the grave. he is elderly, wise, genial, vastly intelligent, and highly manipulative.
- Opines that lily potter's son is being raised like a pig for slaughter.
- Explains that even in the seventh book harry is only seventeen and his entire life, thus far, has been carefully orchestrated to kill lord voldemort, the series main antagonist.
- Analyzes how rowling created a hero dependent upon the wizarding world. she created an orphaned boy who dodged frying pains aimed at his head, locked in his cousin's second bedroom and fed cold tins of soup.
- Analyzes how the dursleys are not the only ones to fail harry, nor is albus dumbledore. the theme of unreliable adults is prevalent throughout the series.
- Analyzes how barty crouch sr. viciously dismisses his house elf, winky, in harry potter and the goblet of fire. his foul treatment horrified hermione, who spoke to sirius about it.
- Explains that albus dumbledore was an unreliable adult in the children's life at hogwarts. he cared for harry more than any other, but he demanded that harry be left with his bitter relatives.
- Analyzes how society is taught that two wrongs do not make a right, and that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, yet rowling seems to glorify the fact that harry often does the wrong thing for the right reasons.
- Analyzes how harry potter and the chamber of secrets broke several wizarding laws, including the statute of secrecy. the school board banned the series because it encouraged disobedience and disrespect for authority.
- Analyzes how hermione steals potions ingredients from professor snape to brew the polyjuice potion to find out if draco malfoy, the pampered school bully of their year, was the heir of slytherin.
- Analyzes how hermione's disgust at the enslavement and mistreatment of the house elves in harry potter and the goblet of fire prompted her to create the society for the promotion of elfish welfare.
- Analyzes how rowling poked fun at slavery. the black family beheaded their elves when they became unable to continue their labor.
- Analyzes how ursula le guin, author of chronicles of earthsea, said the book was "ethically rather mean-spirited" about the first book, which is arguably the most light-hearted of the entire series.
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- Explains that harry potter and the creation of a moral panic.
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- Narrates how snape, a death eater follower of voldemort, was eavesdropping on dumbledore's prophecy, and when he was told, harry was his next target.
- Explains that harry potter and slytherin look like half-bloods, orphans raised by muggles.
- Analyzes how tom riddle killed his family and harry's, a factor that contributed to their similarities. both harry and tom were feared by the children and employees of the non-wizarding orphanage.
- Explains that potter and young tom riddle had a rare ability to speak in parseltongue, which is how snakes communicate with one another.
- Explains that voldemort accidentally made a horcrux when he tried to kill harry in godric's hollow, where the potters lived.
- Analyzes how salazar slytherin prized his hand-picked students with his rare gift, parseltongue, resourcefulness, determination, and disregard for the rules.
- Analyzes how dumbledore points out that harry and voldemort's minds are connected, and that they can manipulate each other’s thoughts.
- Analyzes how the tri-wizard tournament was pivotal for finding the reason why harry and voldemort have a blood connection.
- Explains that harry and voldemort were connected by fate, but were drawn apart from the simple difference of love.
1157 wordsRead More - Researchopinion essayJ.K. Rowling has led a “rags to riches” life. She knows what it is like to go from living on government support to being one of the richest and most powerful people in England because of hard work and dedication. J.K. Rowling’s real name is Joanne “Jo” Rowling. Rowling uses her life experiences as characters and plots throughout her books. Othe...
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- Opines that j.k. rowling has written the most successful book series in all of recorded history, but there is much controversy surrounding this book.
- Explains that j.k. rowling's real name is joanne "jo" and uses her life experiences as characters and plots throughout her books.
- Narrates how rowling based the character of hermione off of herself as an eleven-year-old. she studied a levels in english, french, and german.
- Narrates how rowling moved to portugal to teach english as a foreign language and had three chapters of harry potter in her suitcase. she was diagnosed with clinical depression and contemplated suicide.
- Explains that joanne rowling has only two known pin names: j.k. and ian rankin. the cuckoo's calling and recently published silkworm have been published under the pen name of robert galbraith.
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- Analyzes how harry's alienation from the wizarding world and muggle (non-magical) world causes him to long for the acceptance of his truthful story.
- Analyzes how harry hoped his sense of alienation would be lessened when he returned to hogwarts, but that was not the case.
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- Analyzes how rowling's effective use of conflict in this novel reveals how alienation can be a result of injustice.
- Analyzes how joanne kathleen rowling's harry potter and the order of the phoenix sold almost two million copies within the first 24 hours of its worldwide release.
1260 wordsRead More - Harry Potterexplanatory essayHarry Potter started out being a book by J. K. Rowling, intended to entertain children. But somehow it has gotten dragged through the mud and made into a bigger deal than it was until the name Harry Potter is commonly heard on everyday news.
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- Explains that there are many cool fads that catch on quite quickly and leave quickly as well. harry potter has caused much chaos and controversy throughout america.
- Explains that harry potter started out as a book by j. k. rowling, intended to entertain children. but it has gotten dragged through the mud and made into an even bigger deal.
- Explains that the media and many adults are claiming that these books and movies are evil. robert mcgee, associate pastor of the first baptist church of merritt island of ca, says children are leaning the elements of witchcraft.
- Explains that many of the spells used in the movie and books are real from the religion wicca from great britain. roger coleman, a wiccan minister, said he found very similarity between his religion and the witchcraft
- Explains that the first baptist church of merritt island has started a potter movie of their own. the one-hour video has been shown to hundreds of people across brevard county ca.
- Opines that the potter books are harmless and are meant to make children use their imagination.
- Opines that the complaints are based on the feeling that evil pervades the works and the belief that if young people read these books they’ll forget everything their parents taught them.
- Explains that harry potter has had many charges filed against it over the wizards used in it, though you haven't seen that any of the disney movies have had any charges.
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- Explains that a person's character is what makes them who they are. it is the foundation of personality, words, and actions.
- Analyzes how personal struggle shows a person what they are willing to do to succeed. j.k. rowling and her daughter suffered from poverty prior to writing the infamous harry potter series.
- Explains the importance of finding and developing new talents when going through personal struggle. having talents greatly contributes to the character of a person.
- Opines that any struggle can be an amazing opportunity to change a person's mindset and become more positive about life.
- Explains that life experience is one of the most crucial factors in a person's character.
- Explains that life's battles can cause people to become better versions of themselves. knowing who you are and building your identity is an imperative task in life.
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