The Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling‚ is a set of novels that has grown tremendously and has become popular within all age groups of people. This series however‚ has brought into question the appropriateness for young readers in schools. Much of the controversy roots from religious groups‚ parents‚ and school administrators who all find different aspects of the novels to be untruthful to their personal morals. In many schools‚ parents have challenged the content of the series to be immoral
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books‚ including King Arthur‚ Star Wars‚ Eragon‚ and numerous other novels and movies. And so it is that Harry Potter‚ the hero of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚" by J.K Rowling‚ is also receiving popularity. Pitiful Harry Potter is orphaned as a baby and is sent to live with his insufferable aunt and uncle‚ Petunia and Vernon Dursley‚ and their heavyset son‚ Dudley. While Harry
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Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his Uncle Vernon‚ Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley‚ who are mean to him and make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. (Dudley‚ however‚ has two bedrooms‚ one to sleep in and one for all his toys and games.) Then Harry starts receiving mysterious letters and his life is changed forever. He is whisked away by a beetle-eyed giant of a man and enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Throughout the saga there are clear‚ distinct factions on both sides of the war. On the whole‚ Dumbledore and his school‚ ‘Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’ encapsulate the strive for goodness in the world‚ conveyed through the teachers and students. On the other side‚ Voldemort leads the Death Eaters in their struggle for power‚ enforcing ideologies of racism‚ genocide and control through fear and oppression. However‚ through the characters of Harry‚ Snape‚
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folk like the individual that is currently reading this. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by‚ J.K Rowling is a fantasy adventure about Harry Potter‚ an ordinary eleven year old boy who has lived with the Dursley family since his parents had died in a car crash when he was a baby. His Aunt Petunia‚ Uncle Vernon‚ and Cousin Dudley always treated him as a slave rather than family; Harry never understood why. Everything changed when Harry learned that he was a wizard and that his parents died trying
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In the previous century there have been two major series of fantasy novels; "Lord of the Rings" and more recently "Harry Potter". The genre‚ fantasy‚ is very broad‚ but generally contains one main character‚ the protagonist‚ who is fighting for‚ or against something‚ often against evil. In both these novels the main protagonist is fighting against evil and endures a kind of adventure and personal growth. As in most fantasy novels‚ the main characters are in an ulterior world‚ which is comparable
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MOVIE REVIEW Title of Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Name of the Reviewer: A.O. Scott By: A.J. Lalonde In this review A.O. Scott describes what he feels about the movie “Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix” and the different things that help support his decision. Three things that he uses to show his feelings and judge the movie are the anticipation of the next book and the length of the movie‚ the acting of the characters and their real life situations‚ and lastly
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Book Report I. Introduction Book Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone No. Of Pages: 309pages Publisher: Scholastic Author: J.K. Rowling Overview: -Harry Potter is an 11 year old boy who has lived with the Dursley family ever since his parents died in a car crash. For some reason the family has always mistreated him. On his 11th birthday a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid hands him a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a student at the
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In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ Harry Potter is the hero of the story. I believe that this movie follows Joseph Campbell’s model about the pattern of a hero’s journey. Campbell wrote that there were three stages in every hero’s mythological voyage. For the following five paragraphs‚ I compared the first stage‚ Departure‚ with the beginning of the movie. The hero is called to adventure when Hagrid brings Harry to Dumbledore. This makes sense to me since when Dumbledore places Harry on
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arry Potter Harry Potter is the twelve-year-old protagonist and hero. He is famous within the wizard community for having warded off a curse from Voldemort‚ the most powerful dark wizard. Although this event occurred when Harry was only an infant‚ Harry managed to reverse the curse and take away Voldemort’s power. Hary was left with a small lightening-shaped scar as a remnant of the encounter. Because Harry lived through a curse that no other wizard could survive‚ he is celebrated internationally
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