Havard Commencement Speech Analysis

It was my birthday. I was depressed, sad, and heavyhearted when I received my first Harry Potter book wrapped inside a beautifully decorated paper as a present from my parents. Looking back at my 8-year-old self on that momentous day, I know the little girl in her new pink dress would never have imagined that the small book her mother picked randomly at the local bookstore would not only light up her sorrowful day but also shape an important part of her personality and that later, its author would become her inspiration to write, to create, to imagine and to change.

Since the first day I absorbed myself into the Harry Potter series, the powerful and insightful world of astonishing imagination, mystery, of monsters and wizards, of spells and

Listening to her witty, simple and unadorned yet so captivating speech, I realized the importance of accepting failures and the vitality of overcoming them to succeed. The loss of myself now seems so unsignificant and trivial compared to what J.K.Rowling had endured. At the age 28, she “had failed on an epic scale” (Havard Commencement Speech 2008) as she lost her job, her husband and was left alone to take on the task of raising her only child with poverty as her best friend. But that was also the time she “stopped pretending to [herself] that she was anything other than what she was” (Havard Commencement Speech 2008) and with her “old typewriter” and “a big idea” she wrote Harry Potter, which later became the most famous children’s books. J.K.Rowling could have chosen to surrender to poverty at that time but she chose to fight back against her fear and she

But as I found out after my first few efforts at writing, the fear will not disappear but could never again prevent my love for writing. I have now become an internship for an international online newspapers and fulfil my dream from childhood. My writing might never be as great and powerful as that of J.K.Rowling but I know that it is improving daily and that I am inspiring some one to write just as what J.K.Rowling has done to