english work 12/2/19

So here is the is the excerpt I choose the reason I choose this is because it reminds me of that scene in Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone when Harry and Hagrid are walking down the streets of London to go to the leaky cauldron and this is how I imagined it in the books as a busy street with a cobblestone road with old buildings. I just imagine Hagrid towering over the normal sized people as he walks down the street because since he is so big he sticks out like a sore thumb in a large crowd. This can all so go the same for diagon alley when they go into there with all the signs sticking off the side of the buildings and the shop fronts and I just imagine the Gringotts at the end of the street sticking out from the rest of the other dark and old buildings.

Dublin, Ireland

by the HuffingtonPost

Ulysses by James Joyce


Of his epic classic, Joyce said, “I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.” He accomplished all of that and then some.


From the book: “Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices filled with crustcrumbs, fried hencod’s roes.”



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