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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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    In the “Your a Wizard Harry “ scene from the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ Harry clearly make it an open pane that he wants change in his life. He does this because he is really lonely. One can see this because at the beginning of the scene‚ Harry is in his room on his birthday with a picture of a cake and he says “Make a wish Harry.” Because he is alone on his birthday‚ anyone can see he is lonely and therefore probably wants a change in environment. This also shows it is an open

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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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    Advanced Composition ENG 300 January 6‚ 2014 Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone Book vs. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone Movie Comparison and Contrast In 1997 under an author unknown the titles book Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone was published by Bloomsbury‚ a publisher in the United Kingdon‚ the Author J.K. Rowling. In 1998 The title of the book was changed to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for the purpose of releasing the book to the United States‚ the publisher feared

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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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    I read the book Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone by: JK Rowling. In this book there are many very interesting characters. Even though there were so many colorful characters I found that the 2 most intriguing characters were Draco Malfoy and Albus Dumbledore. Even though these two characters aren’t the main characters but they caught my attention better than the main character ever did. Draco is a first year Slytherin student at Hogwarts. Harry first meets the Draco in Diagon Alley and dislikes

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    Following Harry Potter on an incredible journey‚ full of thrill‚ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows‚ part 2‚ is full excitement. This movie has been a phenomena since the very first movie‚ Harry Potter and the Sorcer’s Stone‚ launched on November‚ 2001. After ten hers we come together to put an end to the story of “the boy who lived” in the last battle against the forces of evil. The cast‚ cinematography‚ and mystery in this film made on of the finest films ever created. Each feature in this movie

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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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    The Themes‚Motifs and Symbols of Harry potter and the Scorers Stone. Throughout the British novel Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone there are many themes ‚ motifs and symbols that show up as the novel progresses from chapter to chapter. Which was written by J.K Rowling in mid nineteen- ninety seven about a boy who discovers he is a wizard and somehow his fate is to defeat and evil wizard that he encountered when he was younger and that had killed his parents. Themes

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    The five aspects of the quest are: someone to go on the quest‚ a place to go‚ a stated reason to go there‚ challenges along the way‚ and the actual reason to go. In J.K. Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ a boy named Harry goes on a quest. He goes to Hogwarts’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry‚ and his reasoning is to learn how to be a wizard. His actual reason for going to Hogwarts turns out to be that he has to keep the Dark Lord Voldemort from rising again as he is the only

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