21st Century Literature (Graphic Organizer)

Title and Author: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Main Characters:

- Harry Potter
- Hermione Granger
- Ron Weasley

Supporting Characters

- The Dursleys
- Albus Dumbledore
- Hagrid
- Minerva MacGonagall
- Severus Snape
- Prof. Quirrel
- Voldemort
- Neville Longbottom

Problem

- The problem arises when Harry, Ron, and Hermione found a trapdoor guarded by a three-headed dog in the
forbidden third-floor corridor.

- Then the situation becomes even worse when someone lets a troll in the school premises.

- During the Quidditch, someone jinxed Harry’s Broom. Hermione suspected that it was Professor Snape’s doing
because he was muttering curses.

- After Christmas, they found a book that helped them unravel the break-in that happened Gringotts and what’s the
underlying secret of the trapdoor in the third-floor corridor. They learned that it was Flamel’s Sorcerer’s Stone. The
stone will become the key to have eternal life.

- Someone tricked Hagrid into saying the weak point of the three-headed dog he owned in exchange for a
Norwegian Ridgeback dragon.

Solution

- Harry, Ron, and Hermione face punishment for being out of bed at the designated time is patrolling in the
forbidden dark forest with Hagrid. Harry and Draco witnessed a man sucking the blood of a pure unicorn. It was a crime
to slay a unicorn. The assailant tried to attack Harry, but a centaur saved him. Harry learned from the centaur about
Voldemort. Voldemort wants to have his body back, and he is the villain behind the unending misfortunes in Hogwarts.
He wants to obtain the eternal life of the sorcerer’s stone for himself.

- After knowing from the story of Hagrid on how he got the dragon and the secret he told the man, three of them
rushed into the third-floor corridor. They found the three-headed dog sound asleep due to the magic-imposed harp.

- There are a set of traps they encountered before they got into the location of the stone. Harry found Professor
Quirrel standing in the front of Mirror of Erised, which shows you desired most. Harry wants to see the sorcerer's stone,
and the mirror showed that it is in his right pocket. He lied when Professor Quirrel asked what he saw in the mirror.
Someone spoke and told Professor Quirrel that Harry is lying. Professor Quirrel removed his turban, and in the back of
his head, it is Voldemort in his weak and vulnerable state. He tried to kill Harry, but the moment he touched him, his
body burned and turned into ashes. The soul of Voldemort ran free to plot another villainous act on obtaining his body.

- Albus Dumbledore and his good friend, Nicholas Flamel, the owner of the sorcerer’s stone decided to destroy it so
that Voldemort will stop pursuing its eternal life.

Eight Male Archetypes:

Chief – Tony Stark in Iron Man

Bad Boy – Landon Carter in A Walk To Remember

The Bestfriend – Dustin Henderson in Stranger Things

Charmer – John Tucker in John Tucker Must Die

The Lost Soul – Joker in Joker

The Professor – Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes

The Swashbuckler – Superman in Superman Vs. Batman

The Warrior – Shazam in Shazam!

Eight Female Archetypes

Boss – Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman

The Survivor – Cheryl Blossom in Riverdale

The Spunky Kid – Enola Holmes in Enola Holmes

The Free Spirit – Margo Spiegelman in Paper Towns

The Waif – Bella Swan in Twilight

The Crusader – Katniss Everdeen in Hunger Games

The Nurturer – Nancy Wheeler in Stranger Things

The Librarian – Hermione Granger in Harry Potter

Critical Essay About Impact of Archetypes in Harry Potter’s Sorcerer’s Stone

The story began on Harry Potter’s 11th birthday. He found out that he is a wizard and invited him to study at
Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry. The sorting hat ceremony is finding the students the perfect and suitable houses for
their personalities. The sorting hat appointed Harry, Ron and Hermione to be part of Gryffindor. In their first year in
school, Harry and his profound friends, Ron and Hermione, discovered a school secret. The sorcerer’s stone is on the
school premises. It is in a trapdoor guarded by a three-headed dog. Voldemort, the dark wizard, is after the stone to
obtain its eternal life. The three like to stick their nose where it doesn’t belong, but it became their advantage to stop a
villain act. Harry’s passion for saving others, Hermione’s cleverness and moral attitude, and Ron’s loyalty as a friend
saved the day. They are only students but already made names. The whole school acknowledged their bravery and
gregarious act at the closing ceremony.

Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone is a blockbuster movie hit in 2000’s. The author behind this fictional novel is
J.K Rowling. Fictional, fantasy movies rose its popularity since the release of Star Wars, but in 2000’s Rowling brought
new spice in that genre. Her characters are witches and wizards but different from what we read in fairy tales. In fairy
tales, witches are always the bad ones and they curse the heroine to succeed on their evil plans. In Harry Potter, there
are good and evil witches and wizards. Additionally, there is even an existing school that hones their inborn talents and
skills to save the world from enveloping into darkness.

Archetypes are the qualities a character possesses, and it makes a portrayal distinguishable from others in the
film. Before we even knew the word “archetype” we are already familiar with it. It is the familiarity we gathered on
reading books and watching movies. Moreover, without knowing the characters' names, we can identify their identities
based on archetypes. Upon watching and reading the summary of the first franchise of Harry Potter, It is common to
encounter different archetypes in characters and events. However, the commonality of it in books and movies does not
make it obsolete but makes it more exciting. There are many starring cast in the movie and we cannot possibly
remember all them. It is the one of best quality of archetypes, the supporting character without a remarkable role still
marks a name to the audience. It can be because of loyalty, bravery, honesty or selflessness. Just like the character of
Neville Longbottom, he might be seen as a coward and quite opposites of the three main characters. But, he can also be
courageous and his character development is really surprising.

The main characters are the golden trio. Harry Potter is the fated boy that will extinguish the evilness Voldemort
has spread in the wizarding world. He is an inborn hero that will save everyone’s day. Hermione Granger, her knowledge
and cleverness support Harry. She maintains her morals and integrity despite the icky impression on her of being a
muggle-born. She serves as the librarian among the three. Ron Weasley is a good friend and supporter of Harry and
Hermione. He is always there for his friends in the downs and ups of the movie. He is the loyal best friend of the hero. As
supporting characters, Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and Hagrid are the supporting characters that act
as second parents of the main characters. They influence the main characters on making the right decisions while
guiding and shaping their attitudes and minds as teachers.

Archetypes serve as our distinctions to identify one’s character in a movie or book. Just like in Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer’s stone, we can appoint who is the hero, the loyal friend, the mentor, the villain and many more because of
the qualities their characters’ possess. We do not need to memorize the names of the characters as long as we recognize
the character they are portraying. Archetypes made Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone more interesting in a way that
we will identify one’s archetype and predict his/her next moves. We will ask questions if he/she will behave like on the
book or movie I saw before or will he/she do something unexpected? We can change our impression on the character if
he/she acts different. For me it is alright to critic one’s archetype because it will be our basis on character development.
Also, the audience wants to see something new on the character.