Week 7 - Harry Potter

The Harry Potter Series

     I have seen all 8 films and I have read the books from the first one to half of the 6^th one.

The complex moral issues of the story are that Harry and the others (his friends Ron and Hermione) have to make decisions that will influence each other and everyone else. Sometimes, it was life and death situation.

     I feel like some of the spiritual challenges that Harry, Hermione and Ron had to face was that knowing that there is evil in the world and that they have to save it from that evil. They don’t face the evil as much in the first couple books/films but I feel like another spiritual challenge is that they are very young to even face these evil things (in the first couple books/films).

     I feel like the complex moral issues were presented in a way where the heroes/main characters having to make a big decision on sacrifice and it would possibly effect the ones they love.

     I feel like Dumbledore even had some complex moral issues and spiritual challenges. He made a hard choice to save Harry and a lot of others lives. The challenge was that he had those complex moral issues and had to make that life or death decision.

Week 6 - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    I only saw the movie. I feel like Bilbo Baggins plays a big part in being a hero. At first, he doesn’t want to be a hero; he wants to be in his peaceful home alone with no worries. But there is a problem in the world and the dwarfs had given him the journey to take to help fix the problem. But later on, Bilbo decided he wanted to go on an adventure.

    I feel like the Hobbit is sort of relating to me. I am small and so are hobbits. It is like me going on an adventure: growing up, going to college, and getting a job. That is definitely going on an adventure to me. The line “...I am going on an adventure!” in the The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is definitely what I said when I first started going to college.

   Of course all heroes have their ups and downs. Bilbo Baggins definitely had his up and downs throughout his journey. For instance, when he found the ring, he discovers that he can be invisible to enemy, but yet, he also had run away to go back home. I feel like that would be okay for a hero to step down for a little bit; it doesn’t get boring as a story. But then, he changed his mind on going back home and wanted to help the dwarfs because they were more in danger and Bilbo knew that they had an advantage with him there.

   By the end of the film, Bilbo and the dwarfs were more than half way there. The dwarfs couldn’t have done it without Bilbo. If Bilbo hadn’t shown up, the leader of the dwarfs would have gotten eaten by the enemy’s leader/pet. That’s what I believe makes a great hero!