How would you feel if you were a slave? Would you like it? Or would you hate it? Would you love your master until the end? Would you even choose to be a slave? These are the questions that the house elf's of Harry Potter #'s 2-7 by J.K. Rowling never got to ask themselves.
In Harry Potter House elf's are little creatures that work and serve wizard families like slaves. They only wear old pillow cases and things that are really like junk. They are set free when they are presented real cloths. They can't use a wand and they can't leave their family. They work for the same wizard family until the day that they die, the day that the whole wizard family dies (which is very unlikely), or the day that they are set free (which is even more unlikely than the whole wizard family dieing). They get no pay and no vacation. Now, Hermione (one of Harry's friends) is trying to get them basic human rights.
I think that it's really courageous of Hermione to do this. No one has really ever thought about the elf's before. But you can actually argue her point either way. You could say that they should be free, but you could also say that they should say as slaves.
For one thing they seem to like work. In fact they seem to love it. When Winky (the house elf of Mr. Crouch in Harry Potter #4) was set free she started bawling her eyes out for weeks. She actually missed working like a dog for her master. And when Dobby (Malfoy's house elf in Harry Potter #2) was offered 10 galleons a week and weekends off, when he started working at Hogwarts he didn't take it. He only took one day a month and 1 galleon a week. Plus, all the house elf's themselves say that it's the elf way to work and that no one should try to change it.
But on the other side it kind of seems as if the have been brain washed. They now think that being a slave is okay. I'm sure that if they tried freedom, they would love it. In fact, I don't think they have ever had freedom. They just know work. Actually, some have just been born in to it. That's why they love it so much. It's the only thing they have ever known. They are probably scared to go out in the real world with out their masters. And it's because they have no idea what the real world holds for them. Like Dobby, if they just went out there for a change and seed what it was like, they would love it. But of course they are tied to their masters forever.
At first I thought that the house elf's shouldn't be free. To me it sounded like they loved work. But now that I've typed out all of these reasons, I realize that they should be free. No one should have to live a life of slavery. Even if they are fictional characters. So I have decided to applaud Hermione.
Clap clap,clap,clap...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
Right now I have to be doing homework. Because if I don't I'll be drowned in it later. But what I would rather be doing is getting lost in a book. A specific book. A book called Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. A book that is completely spectacular.
There is just one thing I don't understand in this book. Nobody is letting Harry out of their site, nor is he allowed to leave the grounds or go anywhere after sundown, for fear that he will be killed by none other than Sirius Black. If I remember correctly Harry has faced Voldemort 3 times now. And he has lived. People venerate him. And, that's not even including the time when he was an infant. And if I do say so my self, (and I do) Voldemort seems worse than Black.
If Harry can beat down Voldemort 3 times than surly he can take on one crazed Wizard. Why do people have doubt in him? Now you see, doubt is a curios thing. You can doubt things. You can doubt other people. And you can have doubt in yourself. It's one of those things that you never out grow or get rid of. It stays with you until the day you die.
You will ask your self always "can I do this? No, I doubt it.", "can it stand this? No, I doubt it.", "can I trust this person? No I doubt it".
James Potter asked himself if he could trust Black. He said yes and he and his wife died.
There is just one thing I don't understand in this book. Nobody is letting Harry out of their site, nor is he allowed to leave the grounds or go anywhere after sundown, for fear that he will be killed by none other than Sirius Black. If I remember correctly Harry has faced Voldemort 3 times now. And he has lived. People venerate him. And, that's not even including the time when he was an infant. And if I do say so my self, (and I do) Voldemort seems worse than Black.
If Harry can beat down Voldemort 3 times than surly he can take on one crazed Wizard. Why do people have doubt in him? Now you see, doubt is a curios thing. You can doubt things. You can doubt other people. And you can have doubt in yourself. It's one of those things that you never out grow or get rid of. It stays with you until the day you die.
You will ask your self always "can I do this? No, I doubt it.", "can it stand this? No, I doubt it.", "can I trust this person? No I doubt it".
James Potter asked himself if he could trust Black. He said yes and he and his wife died.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Vladimir Tod - book 5 - Twelfth Grade Kills
I cannot put into words what this book means to me. But I will try. Sitting on the couch is me. In my hands is Twelfth Grade Kills. And the whole entire day I do not stop reading. I go on a journey through the last chapter of the life of Vladimir Tod. And I do not stop until I am done.
This series is about a young half vampire who is born not created. He is the product of a human and a vampire. And when he discovers an ancient prophecy that says he will rule the vampires and enslave the human race he struggles too come to terms with what he might and could be.
Thinking back, I realize that I missed so much. Even though I read the book, and I took in and understood the words, the sentences and all of the paged paragraphs I did not know what I had. And what I had was a real life journey.
Vlad struggles through out the whole book and through out the whole series with who and what he is. At first he tried to deny it. He was not the Pravus. He was not evil. And he would definitely not do any of the things that the prophecy mentioned. He was just one kid. But when he started too accept it his life changed forever. Sometimes it was terrible. But other times he was as happy as one could get.
In order for your life to twist and turn as it should you need to accept things good or bad. If you don't then you will have a very boring life. You need to accept who and what you are. No matter what the price is. Because if you can't be honest with your self...who can you be honest with? Plus, who cares what other people think? It's your life and your going to live it how ever you want. Let people think what they want to think. It's your life.
But there is a problem. Accepting who you are is something that you need to do. But living how you want to live and acting how you want to act is a whole other thing. When you really think about it, we are bound to and by society. Sure, it keeps the world and the nation together. But what about individual people. What if I don't like my teacher and I feel like slapping her because she is getting annoying? What if I'm tired of school and tired of learning so I decide not to go?
Everything you do and everything you say is just another round of cause and effect. I slap my teacher; I get in to monumental trouble. I don't get an education; I go nowhere in life. All good things have a reward and all bad things have a punishment.
Vlad accepts that he is the Pravus; he saves the entire town of Bathory. He refuses to kill Joss when he has the chance; Joss nearly kills Vlad. There will always be the good and the bad. But accepting it is the way to making the most out of everything.
This series is about a young half vampire who is born not created. He is the product of a human and a vampire. And when he discovers an ancient prophecy that says he will rule the vampires and enslave the human race he struggles too come to terms with what he might and could be.
Thinking back, I realize that I missed so much. Even though I read the book, and I took in and understood the words, the sentences and all of the paged paragraphs I did not know what I had. And what I had was a real life journey.
Vlad struggles through out the whole book and through out the whole series with who and what he is. At first he tried to deny it. He was not the Pravus. He was not evil. And he would definitely not do any of the things that the prophecy mentioned. He was just one kid. But when he started too accept it his life changed forever. Sometimes it was terrible. But other times he was as happy as one could get.
In order for your life to twist and turn as it should you need to accept things good or bad. If you don't then you will have a very boring life. You need to accept who and what you are. No matter what the price is. Because if you can't be honest with your self...who can you be honest with? Plus, who cares what other people think? It's your life and your going to live it how ever you want. Let people think what they want to think. It's your life.
But there is a problem. Accepting who you are is something that you need to do. But living how you want to live and acting how you want to act is a whole other thing. When you really think about it, we are bound to and by society. Sure, it keeps the world and the nation together. But what about individual people. What if I don't like my teacher and I feel like slapping her because she is getting annoying? What if I'm tired of school and tired of learning so I decide not to go?
Everything you do and everything you say is just another round of cause and effect. I slap my teacher; I get in to monumental trouble. I don't get an education; I go nowhere in life. All good things have a reward and all bad things have a punishment.
Vlad accepts that he is the Pravus; he saves the entire town of Bathory. He refuses to kill Joss when he has the chance; Joss nearly kills Vlad. There will always be the good and the bad. But accepting it is the way to making the most out of everything.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
The Phantom Tollbooth
I have noticed a great many things in the Phantom Tollbooth. For example on pg 19. When the weather men is talking about how people never go beyond Expectations. That's capitalized because in the book it's a real place. It just got me thinking how it's true. Some people that you may have high hopes for never go beyond expectations. Like in school. Some students never go beyond what the teacher expects of them. Or in the book some people never go beyond Expectations as a place. And as it is the weather mans job to urge them on, its a teaches job to urge on his or her students to go beyond expectations too. This also makes me think about how the author takes things from real life and makes them literal.
Another example of the author making things literal is on pg 31. Tock tells Milo that if he starts to think the car will get moving. And it's true. If you work hard and think hard things will get moving. You will get a good job and have a good life. Besides becoming a zillionaire what could be better?
Another example of the author making things literal is on pg 31. Tock tells Milo that if he starts to think the car will get moving. And it's true. If you work hard and think hard things will get moving. You will get a good job and have a good life. Besides becoming a zillionaire what could be better?
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