JK Rowling writes an adventurous book of a young boy, Harry Potter beginning with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Harry Potter is born into a magical world but raised by ordinary people. Harry potter is not a typical hero. Harry becomes a legend at barely one year old when his parents die and he wards off a spell by Voldemort, the most dominant dark wizard starting Harry’s first journey. At the age of 11 he discovers he is a wizard after ten years of cruelty with his aunt and uncle Dursley.
“Alice in Wonderland” and “Harry Potter” ‘Fantasy’ is a genre that uses magic and supernatural as a basic element of plot, theme and setting. Most of fantasy works have their setting in fictional world where magic is common, as we can see in the two novels, “Alice in Wonderland” and “Harry Potter.” They both are fantasy fictions. Anyway, there are some similarities and differences between the two which I am going to point out. “Alice in Wonderland” was written by the British author, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson or Lewis Carroll. The story tells the adventure of a young girl, Alice, in a wonderful land by accident.
He is even more upset when he finds out that Harry sent him to Bruges as his “one last joyful memory” before dying (58). Ray doesn’t pitch as much of a fit over being killed as he does about spending his last days in Bruges. Ray selfishly questions Harry’s actions by asking why not “the Bahamas” or “Fiji”, why did it have to be Bruges (58)? Ray can’t imagine why Harry would have sent him here. As Harry explains to Ken, he used to spend his childhood in Bruges and finds it a very magical place.
Each book starts with Alice entering some other world (of fantasy) which is followed by a string of peculiar events and awakening at the end to discover that her adventure has only been a dream and she is back in the real world. Carroll has also talked about the subject of “One’s Identity” through his books. In Alice in Wonderland we see Alice fearing that her identity might have been switched with someone else. Similarly, we see that Alice, in Through the Looking Glass, loses her identity all together when she forgets her name. In both the books Carroll has raised this subject.
But they were too afraid because he was different. You see harry had a certain aspect about him. He loved the outdoors and could not go out. His family were high class and though of him so when he went to Hogwarts and tamed the wild side of him he felt alive. Harry potter was never the brightest in school but he had a certain gift for potions since the halfblood prince helped him.
Baseball Bats Are Not Just Used For Shattering Balls. gAs nice as people are you can not trust them. Clumsy Simon Glass is a nerd, a loser who occupies the lowest rung on the high school social ladder. Simon was better known as the textbook geek of his high school, who has no friends and someone everybody picks on; that is until Rob Haynes shows up. Haynes is a transfer student, who has something special instore Haynes and his gang of friends Young ,Bob, and Coop had a mission to turn Simon Glass from a total freak to a wanna be prom king.
Tim Burton The quiet, non sociable, shy, unhappy, weird, million dollar director Tim Burton. Good morning teacher and students. It is incredible how Tim Burton became such a success with a background like his. As a child growing up he was a quiet, unsocial boy, who never did well at school and would come home to sit in his wardrobe to draw, what his teachers described as “weird, gothic sketches”. His teachers would say he would go nowhere in life, his parents would fight continuously and he found it very difficult to make friends.
It was not until morning when all signs of the hawk were gone and Arthur was lost then he happened upon a cottage where he met an old magician named Merlin. Merlin, a wizard who lives backwards in time, followed the boy home after helping him find the hawk. The wizard became his teacher. The lessons Merlin taught were no ordinary lessons, but the lost teachings from the womb. When a baby enter this world they have under went a transformation from something very small and insignificant to a human baby, they of course don’t remember this transformation and that is why Merlin’s teachings were so eccentric.
Dominique Allen Burriss AP English III October 17, 2012 Thomas Paine Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England on January 29, 1737. His father, Joseph Paine, had high hopes for what Thomas was to accomplish throughout his life but, despite the fact that he is commonly known for his successfully revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense (written with magnificent eloquence), Paine actually failed in numerous activities in his early ages (Biddle). Paine had failed out of school at the age of twelve. Still having a little hope, his father let Thomas be his apprentice in his trading business, but he wasn’t very successful in that occupation(Kreis). At the age of nineteen Paine went out to sea, but the expedition didn’t last as long as it was thought
As I sit here looking at my three young sons playing with each other, each has a role of their favorite superhero fighting and saving the earth from inevitable doom right here in their very own living room, I wonder was I ever this imaginative. As adults it’s often thought we have lost that creative or imaginative side that we once had an abundance of as children. The innocence of children can lead and harbor a beautiful mind of magical things and mystical illusions. As the mind grows and begins to question things around us we soon realize that all things magical are not real. The day I realized the beauty of magical beings and mystical realms no longer existed was the day my cousin Daniel broke the news that wrestling was all fake.