Group: Vu Kim Chi Tran Khanh Hoa Doan Hai Yen Nguyen Huong Tra Class : 7A09

Topic : J.K.Rowling and her Harry Potter sequence

Outline
1. How Rowling started her writing career:
Joanne Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 in Yate, England. From the childhood, Joanne really loved reading books and thought about writing as a way to create magic Her first story was written when she was six-years-old, because she wanted to have a story to tell her sister Di and Di was thrilled by the story, and the parents amazed. However, they did not encourage their daughter to pursue her writing in any way. After graduating from Exeter University with honors, Joanne went through a series of jobs, most of them secretarial. She found her jobs boring. The only consolation she had was in writing. She wrote many short stories, and abandoned several novels. However, her work ended up in another box with all other stories, and her self-esteem declined. Idea of harry potter: when she was on the way to London, and her train stopped. It was some kind of mechanical problem, which required a delay of four hours. She was staring out the window, when the idea for Harry Potter appeared in her mind very clearly. 2.How she has achieved success: She started writing the book in 1990, and completed five years later. But not many people thought she could succeed as a childrens book writer. Twelve publishers rejected the book before a small London publisher finally accepted to take it on. Even then, the editor of Bloomsbury (the publishing company), out of his doubt about the success of the book, advised Rowling to get a day job as it was unlikely she would make money from it.

But Rowlings belief in her work didnt sway. The book was eventually published in 1997, with a print run of 1000, five hundred of which distributed to libraries. Following the release of the book, a series of events started playing out to catapult a once massively rejected author into the worlds most successful and richest author today: A couple of months after her book was published, she got a grant of 8000 from the Scottish Arts Council for her to concentrate on her writing. And the following year she got a deal of $105,000 from Scholastic Inc. to publish the book in the US. Since then, Rowling and her Harry Potter Series novel have never looked back. They have leapt from one success to another, beyond anyones imagination. II/ Type and Summary - Type: fictional - Summary: III/ Huge success - literature value - social/cultural/ financial values

3. Some achievement of Harry Potter : - Cultural impact : + The events, commonly featuring mock sorting, games, face painting, and other live entertainment have achieved popularity with Potter fans and have been highly successful in attracting fans and selling books with nearly nine million of the 10.8 million initial print copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince sold in the first 24 hours. - Social impact : + To improve literacy by motivating children to read much more than they otherwise would + The books represent a "disturbing trend in commercial storytelling and Western society" in that stories "moral center [sic] have all but vanished from much of today's pop culture 4. Why Harry Potter makes such a huge success ? - They are great stories, synthesising with enormous narrative skill. - J.K.Rowling s amazing creactiveness. - Its real value inside the books :a strong moral message of courage and strong charater that children obviously hungry for . - The societys circumstance and the demand of readers.

5. Controversial issues ( Literary criticism) : - By the time of the release of the fifth volume, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the books began to receive strong criticism from a number of literary scholars. - Various religious conservatives have claimed that the books promote witchcraft and are therefore unsuitable for children,[123] while a number of critics have criticised the books for promoting various political agendas. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone won almost all the UK awards judged by children, but none of the children's book awards judged by adults,[126] and some suggested the reason was intellectual snobbery towards books that were popular among children ous political agendas. - So on : ( is being found) 6. Summary 7 Harry Potter series : - Summarize the main contents of 7 books series .