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by | 20.1.2014 · 22:50

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban

On year 1999 J.K.Rowling published her 3rd Harry Potter book ”Prisoner of Azkaban”. This fantasy story  was for example the Winner of the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year on the same year it was published. Harry Potter is unusual teenager boy living in England with his annoying Uncle-Vernon and his family. Harry is a wizard, studying in Hogwarts magic school. Also Harry’s best friends, two other main characters, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger are in Hogwarts. Ron is an emphatic and positive boy from nice wizard family. Hermione is very intelligent and talented in magic, even her parents are not wizards. These three seems to be an ordinary real life teenagers, just with ability to do magic.

Prisoner of Azkaban tells a great story of Harry’s 3rd year in Hogwarts magic school. Harry is used to be in troubles in every year and this one wont give exception. Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black, convicted from killing many peoples, has escaped from highly-secured prison, Azkaban, and his after Harry. Even Hogwarts can’t protect Harry from Sirius, but in the end of the book, circumstances changes and new sides from many people are revealed. Harry, Ron and Hermione gots their hands on many situations and cases, for instance in time travelling and attack by dementors.

The narrator of the story is not Harry himself, it’s unknow but all the time going with Harry. Main themes is of course magic, fantasy and entertainment to the readers. Anyone can read this book, but the main target group is young people. Potter book series are also made for it’s fans, because it has lots of them who’s all the time waiting for new book. Harry Potter continued in year 2000 with the 4th book and ended 2007 when J.K.Rowling published 7th and last Harry Potter book ”Deadly Hallows”.

I enjoyed the whole book but the most from the part where Harry ja Hermione was time travelling, helping themselves to survive from challenging situations. It was so exciting, unreal and it was written good. I recommend this book for everyone who likes fantasy and enjoys spending time with books. The language is quite normal British english, but it includes many unusual words. Thats why it’s good to know the idea before reading it. Harry Potter stories are usually quite longs, so maybe this is not the first book to read in english. For me it wasn’t that hard, because I knew the story, most of the terms and I didn’t got bored while reading.

Henri,

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by | 6.1.2014 · 17:30

The Wolf of Wall Street

Martin Scorsese directed a true story based film of Jordan Belfort  (acted by Leonardo DiCaprio)  who was born to an original middle class family in Queens, New York. Only few years after Jordan had had his 20th birthday, he got a stockbroker job in Wall Street. That lead him to the world of big and also illegal moneys, luxury life and drugs.

The Wolf of Wall Street were released at the end of 2013 in USA and in Finland at the start of 2014. Right from the start it has been a great success and for instance the heartbeat of movie life IMDb has given to this crime/comedy genre film a perfect rating (8,7/10). The Wolf of Wall Street includes a high-class cast with DiCaprio. For example Jonah Hill as a Jordan’s business partner Donnie Azoff and Margot Robbie as a Naomi Lapaglia (Jordan’s wife).

Every stockbroker knows the term Black Monday in Wall Street. A huge one-day percentage decline in recorded stock market history. Jordan Belfort was having his first day as a real stockbroker and immediately he losed his job because of this stock market crash. He didn’t give up and found himself selling shares that were not in stock. After selling them a while he gather up a team and created own company Stratton Oakmont which gave to him and to his team a highway to the stars.

Drugs came to their lives. Also partys all the time and a prostitute for every night guaranteed a life that these men’s had wanted. Sad but true, most of the stories are not only for flying top of the clouds. Also in this case it had lots of turbulence. Jordan were suspected from many crimes for example stock market manipulation. Many things lead to another so it didn’t end how it started…

3 hours watching Wolf of Wall Street in cinema wasn’t too much at all, every minute was a pleasure to view. Okay, maybe there were few scenes during the movie when I supposed that it’s gonna end now. Leonardo DiCaprio made an excellent work as a Jordan Belfort, because he has the skill to make it feel so real. Also the story made you feel like you could be the main character (from normal family to world of richness by your own). I enjoyed the most from the parts where the whole Stratton Oakmont were selling shares with great team spirit and attitude.

Like allways, movie is made to make a profit and famous to it’s company, actors, directors and etc… This movie anyways told a good story about good sides, but also dark sides of life. Everyone who loves business life and good entertainment are the ones who should see The Wolf of Wall Street.

 

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