Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone Research Paper
Is it Harry Potter or J.K. Rowling?
Harry Potter has been a phenomenon for many years now. J.K. Rowling is a very passionate writer and very descriptive. Harry Potter in her stories is like a symbol of J.K. Rowling herself. She shows a lot of emotion in all her writing. J.K Rowling has been through a lot of situations in her lifetime, she has transformed them into the character Harry Potter. In the book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” Harry is a symbol of J.K. Rowling in her childhood life.
In the Story “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, J.K. Rowling expresses many feelings about the characters and also about how Harry Potter feels about his mother's death:
“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign...to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin,” (Rowling 299).
Harry Potters mom died in the story and J.K. Rowling shows much emotion with this subject. Around the time J.K. Rowling started writing the book her mother died, it had a very devastating impact on Rowling's life. She …show more content…
wanted to express her knowledge that she had received from her mom so she began to write these books. In the story she expresses much feeling through Harry about his mother who passed away and how Rowling’s mother passed away also. Harry lives with his Aunt and Uncle after the death of his mother which was his aunt's sister. Harry did not like living with his aunt and uncle because they mistreated him and made him feel like he was just a speck on the ground, like he was nothing. In J.K. Rowling’s real life she is teased and made fun of because her name and other things about her. Harry was treated horrible by his aunt and uncle. “By the time he was allowed out of his cupboard again, the summer holidays had started…” (Rowling 31). His aunt and uncle made him sleep under the stairs in a cupboard. But they treated their son Dudley a lot different they bought whatever he wanted. Dudley is their favorite and his parents make sure he knows that by buying him whatever he wants and makinging the “star of the show.” J.K.
Rowling shows many different ways of Harry being just like her. For instance, J.K. Rowling did a lot of traveling and commuting on trains from places like Portugal to the U.K. In “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” Harry travels to hogwarts, that’s where the wizards live, he enjoys doing this because it is a way to escape from his aunt and uncle. “Er - I need to be at King’s Cross tomorrow to - to go to Hogwarts,” (Rowling 89). Harry travel back and forth many times to Hogwart’s, just like J.K. Rowling had done when she had been traveling from the U.K. to all over, then back to the U.K.. Rowling had travel to the U.K. to attend School and become a teacher which Harry in the story had done to attend Hogwarts
school. Harry Potter is a symbol of J.K. Rowling in many types of ways. Things in the story about Harry Potter reflect in the real life experiences of J.K. Rowling and things that she has done and that have made a big impact of her. Harry Potter is her in a fantasy world that she wishes she was living in or could be living in. Rowling has made 7 books and in all of them has continued to come up with many more relations to herself and the characters in the books.
Harry Potter has been a phenomenon for many years now. J.K. Rowling is a very passionate writer and very descriptive. Harry Potter in her stories is like a symbol of J.K. Rowling herself. She shows a lot of emotion in all her writing. J.K Rowling has been through a lot of situations in her lifetime, she has transformed them into the character Harry Potter. In the book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” Harry is a symbol of J.K. Rowling in her childhood life.
In the Story “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, J.K. Rowling expresses many feelings about the characters and also about how Harry Potter feels about his mother's death:
“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign...to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin,” (Rowling 299).
Harry Potters mom died in the story and J.K. Rowling shows much emotion with this subject. Around the time J.K. Rowling started writing the book her mother died, it had a very devastating impact on Rowling's life. She …show more content…
wanted to express her knowledge that she had received from her mom so she began to write these books. In the story she expresses much feeling through Harry about his mother who passed away and how Rowling’s mother passed away also. Harry lives with his Aunt and Uncle after the death of his mother which was his aunt's sister. Harry did not like living with his aunt and uncle because they mistreated him and made him feel like he was just a speck on the ground, like he was nothing. In J.K. Rowling’s real life she is teased and made fun of because her name and other things about her. Harry was treated horrible by his aunt and uncle. “By the time he was allowed out of his cupboard again, the summer holidays had started…” (Rowling 31). His aunt and uncle made him sleep under the stairs in a cupboard. But they treated their son Dudley a lot different they bought whatever he wanted. Dudley is their favorite and his parents make sure he knows that by buying him whatever he wants and makinging the “star of the show.” J.K.
Rowling shows many different ways of Harry being just like her. For instance, J.K. Rowling did a lot of traveling and commuting on trains from places like Portugal to the U.K. In “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” Harry travels to hogwarts, that’s where the wizards live, he enjoys doing this because it is a way to escape from his aunt and uncle. “Er - I need to be at King’s Cross tomorrow to - to go to Hogwarts,” (Rowling 89). Harry travel back and forth many times to Hogwart’s, just like J.K. Rowling had done when she had been traveling from the U.K. to all over, then back to the U.K.. Rowling had travel to the U.K. to attend School and become a teacher which Harry in the story had done to attend Hogwarts
school. Harry Potter is a symbol of J.K. Rowling in many types of ways. Things in the story about Harry Potter reflect in the real life experiences of J.K. Rowling and things that she has done and that have made a big impact of her. Harry Potter is her in a fantasy world that she wishes she was living in or could be living in. Rowling has made 7 books and in all of them has continued to come up with many more relations to herself and the characters in the books.