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The day both children and adults have been waiting for has arrived! The last book of the Harry potter series has finally hit the shelves. Author J.K.Rowling should take a bow. Her creativity and dedication have allowed people from around the globe to enter a magical world full of surprises,suspense,and delight.However,her success hasn't always been a smooth "flying broomstick" ride.
Rowling first thought up young Harry while traveling in a train in 1990. Not having a pen and being too shy to ask anyone,she spent the four-hour ride mapping out the story in her mind. She was so excited about the story that she felt it was a like falling in love with someone.When she arrived home, she got to work right away, writing down what she was in her head.
Later that year, Rowling's mother died. It was a terrible shock. "I remember feeling as though there was a literal pain in my heart,"she said.Her pain influenced the story she was writing as well."Harry's feeling about his dead parents had become much deeper, much more real."
Rowling needed a change of scenery, so she decided to teach English in Portugel. She took the manuscript with her , and worked on it between teaching hours. She married a Portuguese man while she was there and they had a daughter.Things didn't work out, and they divorced.
After three years in Portugel, Rowling returned to England, where she was desperate to complete her book. She aws now a single mother and jobless, living on government assistance in a tiny apartment.She wrote in cafes during her daughter's naptime. Since she could't even afford a typeweiter,she used a pen and paper.
Finally, it was finished. Rowling showed her manuscript to one publisher after another. They turned her down. In 1996, everything changed.The chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing's daughter read the first chapter and demanded the second. The rest is history.
The Harry Potter series may be over, but Rowling won't stop writing. Her drawers are full of notes and new ideas. Rowling shares her secret to being a successful writer:do what you love and never give up!
vocabulary:
1.dedication 2. suspense 3. literal 4.desperate 5.work out 6.take a bow
your thinking:
I think J.K.Rowling is a great woman. She wrote the series of Harry Potter so that she became a famous woman in the world. She can't imagine every one love Harry potter very much.In this article , I can read the writer has her handwork. Since her mom died, she was sad so that she felt sorrowful very much. However ,she wanted to work hard to earn money. Therefore she wrote the interesting stories. I should come true my dreamlike J.K. Rowling who will all dreams put down the Harry Potter
