the Harry Potter series are indeed not sexist. It is argued that Rowling works to reimagine every day terms such as love and power and consider such topics in new and exciting ways that in fact do not reflect a world filled with sexism. Within the wizarding world‚ while there is a representation of traditional and modern women in the sense of gender roles‚ in no way do Rowling’s characters reflect such women to be weak or powerless. Instead it is the love placed on Harry Potter by Lily Potter that
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stories play a role in influencing this newly incepted realm. Harry Potter is one of the many universes in which exist in literature and cinema. Written by a single mother‚ the Harry Potter series became one of the most popular stories to be adapted to film. The Harry Potter films are to this day the highest grossing franchise‚ it has made over 7 billion dollars for all 8 films (Movie Franchises‚ The Numbers). In stories such as Harry Potter‚ the mythology present throughout is what contributes to the
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literature later remodeled and revised to develop new versions of tales previously told. From the dystopian novel The Hunger Games‚ to the mythological tale Percy Jackson‚ authors have derived their own work from literary works preceding their own. In Harry Potter‚ many of the characters and their roles are influenced by those seen in the Hobbit including: Gandalf as fatherly figure‚ Bilbo as an underdog‚ and Gollum as a mere obstacle for the protagonist who is internally destroyed by power. In the Hobbit
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Witches‚ wizards‚ spells‚ and magic are all apart of a normal day at Hogwarts‚ a school for young witches and wizards to be able to put their talents with magic into their everyday lives. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling‚ Harry Potter‚ the main character‚ and his friends‚ Ron and Hermione‚ are determined to find out who or what keeps Petrifying students (a spell that is used to make someone like a statue‚ unable to move). Although there were many themes showing through
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as many as 1 million other Americans identify as witches‚ and the numbers are growing. I am here to discuss my point of view as to why Harry Potter should be banned from school libraries. Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by author J. K. Rowling‚ in which the main is an orphaned teen wizard who lives with an abusive family. Claim The Harry Potter series presents dangerous ideas that can be detrimental to young readers‚ and should be removed from school libraries. Evidence 1 According
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inhabit his body weren’t in Slytherin. “Perhaps in Slytherin you’ll make your real friends‚ those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends” (Sorting Hat‚ Philosopher’s Stone). To those who have no idea what I’m talking about‚ in the Harry Potter series‚ there are four houses in Hogwarts. When young witches and wizards attend the school in their first year‚ they’re sorted into one of the houses based on who they are as a person. Those houses are Slytherin‚ Hufflepuff‚ Ravenclaw‚ and Gryffindor(k)
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Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of a wizard‚ Harry Potter‚ and his friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger‚ all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry’s quest to overcome the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort‚ whose aims are to become immortal‚ conquer the wizarding world‚ subjugate non-magical people‚ and destroy all those who stand in his way
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Formal Analysis I’ve decided to do my formal analysis on an original painting done by Slava Ilyayev titled‚ “Passage to Spring”. I ran across this beautiful work of art at Fascination St. Fine Art north of Cherry Creek in Denver. UNITY: As you take a look at this piece‚ you can notice unity right away. The artist uses color‚ texture‚ and line to interweave this beautiful work of art together. Bright‚ analogous warm colors are unified throughout the piece including the reflection on the pathway
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Sandra Vargas Formal Analysis November 19‚ 2014 Professor Alison Pearlman Exotic Landscape (French 1844-1910) (1910) by Henri Rousseau Oil on canvas Mexican Pictures Henri Rousseau’s piece titled Exotic Landscapes (1910) represents a childhood myth in which he called his “Mexican Pictures”. He cultivated this idea that he served in the Mexican army by creating a multitude of landscapes paintings. Below I will be describing one of his most famous landscape pieces named “Exotic Landscapes”
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‚ directed by David Yates‚ and based on the book by J. K. Rowling‚ expresses the amount of important and influential lighting throughout her movie and is also focused on the new amount of dangers within the castle of Hogwarts. As this young boy is preparing for a new battle to begin there are other differing dangers throughout the castle. Tragedy threatens the lives of people throughout Hogwarts and shows this by the amount of darkness and the unknown within
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