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    An Analysis on Harry Potter and the Inheritance Cycle Dilisha Amarasekera Reg. No. 00002704 ENG 2200 – Section 2 Ms. Ruki Salgado Introduction This paper will compare and contrast literal aspects of Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling and The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. Though both book series fall under the genres young-adult and fantasy novel‚ their literal aspects differ in many ways. The plot‚ characters‚ setting and themes are different from each other

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    Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban as the main character struggles to discover himself. A wise man once said‚ “You don’t have to be blood to be family” (Rowling). According to Harry Potter‚ this was very much so the case. Harry Potter was orphaned as a baby when his parents were murdered. He then fell into the care of his unaccepting and uncaring Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. Here‚ Harry felt like a burden and lonely. “Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia are as cruel to Harry as any fairy-tale

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    Character Analysis#2 In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‚ every character has different personality. J. K. Rowling uses both direct and indirect characterization to let them be vivid. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‚ Harry Potter is characterized as noble and brave in order to let readers know he has power to against Voldemort. Harry as the protagonist in this book‚ and he is brave. When Dumbledore and Harry discuss about the Horcrux‚ Dumbledore says that "the only protection that

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    moments of life. Some of these deaths will bring tears to the eyes of any loyal Potter devotee‚ I’ve no doubt of that. But as for the main death‚ the one so many have wondered over? Well‚ that’s where Rowling falls back on a few too-worn literary devices‚ and where she loses one of her stars. I found this book to be far too full of easy short cuts and simplistic cliches to give it five stars. Far too many times‚ Harry and his friends were "mysteriously" saved at the last minute. And the real answers

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    Harry Potter films are based on a series of books and this film is the last in the series of eight written by Joanne Rowling‚ who writes under the pen names J.K. Rowling. An epic saga of childhood temptation‚ danger‚ and adventure‚ the Harry Potter series has been seventeen years in the making. This film’s unique selling point is that well-known story coming to an end. It is so well known that the title on the poster itself makes people want to go and see it‚ the audience recognition is so strong

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    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets start off with Harry spending the summer with his horrible but only remaining family‚ the Dursleys. The Dursleys are not a very good family. On Harry’s birthday the Dursleys throw a dinner party that isn’t even for Harry. Harry is visited by a house-elf named Dobby. Dobby warns Harry not to return to Hogwarts because something bad is going to happen. Hogwarts is the magical school for wizards that Harry is attending. Harry doesn’t listen to the warning and

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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 The title of the book: The title of the book is "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone". The author of the book: The author of the book is J.K. Rowling. The hero of the story + explanation: The hero of the story is Harry Potter‚ without any doubt. He is the hero because‚ first of all‚ the whole book is about his life. The book follows Harry Potter’s most important turn of his life: After he lived for 10 long‚ long years with relatives who didn’t treat him well‚ he

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    Is Harry Potter really the one we think he is? We have always seen Harry Potter as this innocent little boy in this fantastic story about his life. But is he really the innocent child that is an orphan and has an awful life? No. "let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire‚ who practices divination or sorcery‚ interprets omens‚ engages in witchcraft‚ or casts spells‚ or who is a medium or spirits or who consults with the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable

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    Aníbal González 27 Feb 2015 HARRY POTTER and the Prisoner of Azkaban Case Study Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third part of the seven-book fantasy novel series written by JK Rowling. The first one‚ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone‚ was published on 1997‚ and soon became famous all abroad the world. The chosen topic for this case study is the characters‚ in the sense of what they represent and their importance in the saga. JK Rowling tries -and manages- to represent some

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