Jk Rowling Research Paper

Sara Blass 8K March 26, 2018

Mrs. Braunstein Famous Women Essay Women have a unique ability to emerge as influential people in society. Their achievements and contributions have an encouraging impact on all of mankind. Joan Rowling, more commonly known as J.K Rowling, is one of these individuals. She has many experiences and people who have influenced her to greatness, achievements to help mankind, and contributions to society. Joan Rowling is an inspirational woman. Rowling has had many influences in her life. When she was about four or five years of age, she would tell stories to her younger

Ever since she wrote these stories, Rowling knew she wanted to become a writer (Steffens 17). Another significant event took place in Tutshill Church of English Primary School. There, Rowling had a teacher Mrs. Sylvia Morgan who had a rather interesting way of seating her students. She would give them a test at the beginning of the year and seat them according to her perception of their brightness. The smart students would be placed on the right side of the classroom, near the window, and the lesser so, on the left by the door. Rowling was put by the latter. She worked hard that year, and her teacher eventually moved her to the second rightmost seat, where her best friend had been sitting. “ In one short walk,” she said in an interview “ I became clever but unpopular.”. This teacher, was the biggest influence for her character Severus Snape ( Steffens 18 ). The idea for her books came to her when her bus had a delay and she was waiting for it to start up again. Rowling did not have any paper to right it down, so she just kept imagining the story and characters. When she arrive home, she quickly wrote down the fantastical world she had created in her mind’s eye ( Steffens 27). When Rowling was

Harry Potter is a fantasy book series following a boy wizard who attends a magic school named Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Since the publication of the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 1997, the series is translated in 68 languages and sold over four hundred million copies ( Steffens 10). The Federation of Children’s Books Group, located in the United Kingdom, finds that 84% of teachers say Harry Potter improves literacy among their students, and 67% say that the series turns non readers into readers ( Steffens 8). The 2006 Kids and Family Reading finds that 60% of readers ages 5-17 have read all or some of the Harry Potter series, and 76% of parents believe it makes an improvement in school performance ( Steffens 8 ). The series has been made into eight movies which have made approximately eight billion dollars world wide ( Goldstein, Taylor 18). The Harry Potter series is Rowling’s claim to