International. One day‚ while waiting for a delayed train from Manchester to London’s King Cross‚ she started writing the Harry Potter series. Rowling moved to Portugal‚ and taught English as a foreign language. In 1992‚ she married Jorge Arantes‚ and in 1993 they had a little girl named Jessica. In 1995 they divorced‚ and she moved back to England with Jessica‚ which is when she began writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone. The book was finally published in 1997 under the name J.K. Rowling; “J”
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matter or theme‚ particularly in literature and movies‚ and the people’s attitude towards it will be discussed. The discussion will‚ therefore‚ be limited to three literary pieces that have been translated into movies: Sleepy Hollow‚ The Crucible‚ and Harry Potter. First‚ Sleepy Hollow‚ starring Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane‚ is a movie adaptation of Washington Irving’s short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In the short story‚ Irving was able to masterfully paint a picture of a ghost town
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active force in the play. This makes the play lean more toward the style of one of his tragedy plays. The use of the supernatural‚ be it in traditional fairy tales such as Snow White or Jack and the Beanstalk or in the more recent works such as Harry Potter‚ the Chronicles or Narnia or the Lord of the Rings‚ is a delicate thing. Magic is the term most would apply to it. Fantasy works are full of it – magic wands‚ magic shoes‚ magic rings and even magic lands. It can be defined as a mechanism within
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Social inequity is an arising issue has been affecting billions of people around the world for centuries‚ and it needs more attention! Even innocent teenagers have been exposed to these types of prejudices. Of course‚ the effects of it are not good. Different kinds of literature are useful tools for shining a light on social injustice‚ and writers are taking advantage of this fact and writing many novels about social inequities. Authors have been writing articles and stories about racial‚ social
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Professor Kareen Kubovchik English 102 research essay November 14‚ 2014 Harper 2 I. Time after time the best test for a novels longevity is how large the original fan base is during its time period. A. The Harry potter novels captured only a few of the larger demographics but kept the eye of its fan base as well as picking up millions more with 8 blockbuster films spanning over a decade long. B. The Hunger Game Novels grabbed its fan base primarily by the
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Osamudiamen Evbuomwan-Owa Dr. Eppich-Harris Written Analysis of Literature 1 April 2012 Review of The Hunger Games Movie I thought that The Hunger Games movie was overall an “ok” film with just the right amount of special affects and action sequences to complement a decent story. The director and producers stuck very close to the book as far as the story goes. This explains why the movie runs for over two hours. Although the events were very accurate‚ there were certain things that were not
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stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. Both of these quotes tell us about how fiction can teach you more than non-fiction. Fiction taught me many vocabulary words too. In the book Harry Potter‚ I learned the words indifferent‚ obscure‚ revere‚ and deride. If fiction can teach and audience so much‚ than why not “waste your time” reading it? It will teach the reader so many new
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New book explores literacy‚ reading among boys Generations of schoolboys who squirmed through lectures on symbolism in "Lord of the Flies" may want to thank Michael W. Smith for finally understanding their pain. In a new book‚ the associate professor of literacy education at the Graduate School of Education‚ and his University of Maine colleague‚ Jeff Wilhelm‚ document their research exploring why boys’ literacy test scores are consistently lower than girls’. The book‚ "Reading Don’t Fix No
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voice in what rules are upheld in the classroom‚ with a little guidance‚ of course‚ would be best for them. My plan is to set my room up with four tables of desks one for each of the houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the Harry Potter series. In the back of my classroom there would be eight large clear glass jars‚ two for each table. One jar would be empty the other would be filled with marbles that correlate to the house colors in the novel series. The houses are: Gryffindor
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romance with books started almost a couple of years ago. I used to read occasionally earlier‚ but it wasn’t a developed habit until then. I was‚ and still am‚ a huge Harry Potter fan and I loved watching its movies. But I had never thought about reading its book series. When its second last part was close to release‚ I was like any other Harry Potter fan‚ curious about what would happen next. It was then‚ that one of my friends‚ who had already read the entire series‚ started narrating me the story
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