The excerpt above is from page 21 of harry potter and the sorcerer's stone by j. k. rowling. which passage represents
a correctly integrated quotation from the excerpt above?
a wind sweeps gently over the trimmed hedges of privet drive, which liess quiet and neat under the dark sky, not a
place where one would expect anything out of the ordinary to occur (rowling 21).
the harry potter books are so entertaining because they paint a picture of a world in which we all want to live. we all
long to find that extraordinary secret that will reveal our own special quality. like little infant potter waiting outside his
aunt and uncle's house (rowling 21), it's just a matter of time until we find that we are, after all, special.
harry potter lies outside his aunt and uncle's house, unaware that his life has changed forever (rowling 21). he
lies "not knowing he [is] special, not knowing he [is] famous " (rowling 21).
rowling builds a sympathetic protagonist with harry potter from the beginning of the series. in one of his first scenes in
the first book, the infant potter lies on a doorstep "not knowing he [is] special, not knowing he [is] famous " (rowling
21). we are told that not only is this boy surely unique and worthy, but that he would have a truly ordinary childhood
just like the rest of us.