monthly book review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

In the fictional novel, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling a baby named Harry Potter was the only wizard to escape from a very evil wizard name Voldemort. Harry had to grow up with his aunt and uncle until he is old enough to go to Hogwarts, which is a magic school. But mean while Harry his aunt, uncle, and his cousin that treat him like Harry is worth nothing and makes Harry‘s live a living hell before until Harry can go to Hogwarts. Once Harry is old enough he goes to Hogwarts and Harry makes two good friends Hermione and Ron. Harry faces a life and death situation with Voldemort, this would have to be the second time that Harry has to face Voldemort in his life and the first time Voldemort killed Harry’s parents and left a scare on Harry’s forehead. Harry has to stop Voldemort from getting the sorcerer’s stone. Voldemort tries to tricks Harry to tell him where the stone is but Harry finds a way to stop Voldemort and save the stone.

Ron Weasley is one of Harry’s friend that he meet on the train to Hogwarts and is also his room mate. Ron is a very important person in the story because he helps Harry find the sorcerer’s stone and keep it safe. Ron is one of many children and does not have much money at all. But when it come to be Christmas time Ron’s family is able to send Ron and Harry Christmas presents. When Harry sees that he actually has Christmas presents he could not believe it. But one of the presents that Harry gets is not from Ron’s family its from Harry’s father that died when Harry was just a little boy. The present is a Cloak that turns invisible. Harry and Ron go down to the forbidden part of the library to learn about Voldemort. Ron also helps Harry at the end of the book by playing a game of wizards chess, which is like real chess but the pieces are actual size and if a puzzle piece gets captured the get smashed to pieces. In the game Ron sacrifices himself so Harry can go on and save the stone. For sure Harry could not have done what he did with out Ron. Ron is like a side kick to Harry threw out the series; he is always there for Harry and because of this Ron is in most of the action that goes on in the book.

J.K. Rowling uses a lot of symbols and in a way have complicated themes. I think this really makes reading more interesting and more fun to read. Symbols really makes you think about the book and because of that you really go into depth with the story and makes it more easier to understand what is going on. Some of the symbols that she uses are very easy to pick out but they do represent a lot. One symbol is the scare on Harry’s forehead. This was one of the first symbols that I saw and it connects the Harry’s past about his parents dying and Harry living. Another symbol that is very important in the book is the Mirror of Erised. In the mirror of Erised Harry sees he reflection and parents behind him. Later in the book the mirror tells him how to defeat Voldemort. J.K. also is very descriptive explaining things. She is able to paint this picture of wizards, witches, goblins, and all these mystical creatures in our minds. She comes up with this plot that could go on forever which I really like. Anything could some up at anytime which I pretty exciting. Even though her writing is very popular it is fun to read. J.K. uses a lot of themes in her writing. The themes that she uses are necessarily lessons but they are more like deeper examples of dealing with what needs to be done. Harry really goes out of his was to do something that he believes in. the things that he did could have got him in to very big trouble and he knew that but he still went out and did it. Which is one of the themes of the book. I think one of the reason’s why J.K. Rowling’s writing gets so much attention is because of ways of describing what is happening and because Harry Potter and his whole story is nothing like any other type of its kind.

I have also read Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix while ago and I would have to say that one was better then the first book. I think that mainly because the fifth (the order of phoenix) book had more of a fantasy feeling then the first book. Since J.K. Rowling is very good and making a picture in you head of what is happening I like to read all of the action that happens through out the book and the fifth book as at least twice the action and mystery of the first book. Reading the first book felt weird because you heard so much talk about book and the movie then when you read it like 5 or 6 years later you already know what happens and almost everything about the book, or at least me and my group members did. Reading a book from the middle of the series with out reading any other book was at time a little confusing but this book was connected to the other books in the series but not in a way that you did not know that was going on. And that’s what I like about the series because you can read any book, I doesn’t have to be in order. I think for the future books that im going to read I want to see if I can get my other group members to read the other books in this series because they also enjoyed read this book.