Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone Research Paper
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone “It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first movie/book in the Harry Potter series. I have viewed this movie twice, once a few years ago and last Saturday in my living room. I watched the movie because I have read all the books at least five times and I could read them a thousand more times. Every time I have time to read it, I’m as happy as a fish in water. The genre of this movie is adventure, fantasy, and fiction. It is rated PG or PG 13 because there’s some violence and the end of a little frightening. The movie was released in 2001. The screenwriter is Steven Kloves, the director is Chris Columbus, and the movie is live-action.…show more content… When letters flood their house, Uncle Vernon decides to move them to a rock in the middle of an ocean. The next day was Harry’s birthday but he didn't really care. At exactly midnight, a half-giant named Hagrid breaks down the door. Casually he walks in, fits the door back, and gives Harry a birthday cake and a letter to a strange place called Hogwarts. When he gets to the new school he meets three people. The snobby Draco Malfoy, the bookworm Hermione Granger, and the red-haired boy with his older brothers’ clothes Ron Weasley. Together they go through the most normal year for a magical school with a scare from a three-headed dog that Hagrid calls Fluffy, a troll that almost kills Harry, Hermione, and Ron, a magical cloak that can turn its wearer invisible, a mirror that shows your strongest desires and a strange figure killing and drinking unicorn blood. When the trio go through the trap door that Fluffy was guarding, they find moving chess pieces, winged keys, and a little more than they bargained for. Lord Voldemort is evil wizard that gave Harry the lightning shaped scar and he killed himself after trying to kill Harry. Now he is after the Elixir of Life, created by Nicolas Flamel which is hidden in the Mirror of
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, author J.K. Rowling expands on the theme good vs evil and through a combination of imagery, symbolism, setting, and conflict shows that good and evil are concepts that come in