books‚ and stories are written after this very idea. In Linda Seger’s “Creating the Myth”‚ she argues there are 10-points into creating every “hero myth”‚ using Luke Skywalker in Star Wars as her hero myth example; in the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ Harry follows Seger’s 10-point system of creating a “Hero Myth” very closely. Seger’s first point to creating a hero myth is that the hero should be introduced in “ordinary surrounding‚ in a mundane world‚ doing mundane things.” She
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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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Harry Potter written by J.K. Rowling is parallel to King Arthur and the Round Table written by Roger Lancelyn Green. Harry Potter is about Harry going through crazy adventures. During these adventures‚ he learns a lot of skills and he goes through lots of challenges. In King Arthur‚ Merlin puts a sword in a rock and the first person to get it out of the rock would be the King. So everyone tries to pull it out. These books are very alike because they share the same idea. The main characters
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after all the effort they put in to read the novel. Example of a Cliffhanger • J.K Rowling in “Harry Potter and the Last Sorcerer’s Stone” employs many Cliffhangers. To cite an example from Chapter 3‚ “The Letters from No One”: “One minute to go and he’d be eleven. Thirty seconds…twenty…ten…nine – may be he’d wake Dudley up‚ just to annoy him – three…two…one… BOOM. The whole shack shivered and Harry sat bolt upright‚ staring at the door. Someone was
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behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest. Examples: Being a Death Eater‚ in which she goes around torturing and killing anyone that is not a pureblood‚ tries to help purebloods‚ or anyone associated with Harry Potter. Also‚ she kills or tortures anyone she doesn’t like. Plus‚ she escaped from prison and was constantly on the run from the ministry in fear of being sent back to Azkaban. 2. Deceitfulness‚ as indicated by repeated lying‚ use of aliases‚ or conning
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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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increasingly complex Harry Potter series. There is great depth range in the cast from evil witches to house elves. Rowling does a good job in the transition of the characters thoughts and emotions as they continue to learn and grow throughout their years at Hogwarts. Albus Dumbledore and Hermione Granger are just two out of many characters that are important to the story but really do not change throughout the series. Then there are more dynamic characters like Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
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surrounded by a forest full of dangerous creatures and a tree that could literally kill you if you come within its branches’ radius. The dangers of the Forbidden Forest can be seen through Harry’s detention as he was forced to go for punishment. Basically‚ Harry experiences a near-death situation. Although his near death situation was caused by Voldemort whom we all know doesn’t exist in the present time anymore‚ this is not to say that Hogwarts in the present time isn’t going to be infiltrated once again
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Satirical Devices and Techniques Table of CONTEXT Absurdity ……………………………………………………………………... 1 Exaggeration ……………………………………………………………..….. 2 Farce ……………………………………………………………………..…... 3 Irony …………………………………………………………………………... 4 Malapropism ……………………………………………………………….... 5 Sarcasm ……………………………………………………………………... 6 Travesty ……………………………………………………………………….7 Understatement …………………………………………………………….. 8 Farce Definition: Light humorous play‚ exciting laughter
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Text B is an interview on television show conducted by two presenters with the purpose being to conceive as much information as they can from J.K. Rowling‚ a famous author on her newest Harry Potter book. The audience here would predominantly be avid young readers of the book who want to know about the book and regular followers of the show. The dominant speaker in this text B would be the interviewers and the chat show is based on adjacency pairs. Using a false-start and contradiction in “no‚
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