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The Chronicles of Narnia:  The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (1950)

Author:  C.S. Lewis

Genre:  Fantasy

Point of View:  3^rd Person

Age Recommendations:  8 and up

Main Characters:  Pevensie Children (Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy), Aslan, The White Witch

Plot:  World War II has just begun and four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, are evacuated from London in 1940 to escape the Blitz. They are sent to live with Professor Digory Kirke, who lives in a country house in the English countryside.  One rainy day shortly after the children arrive, they decide to play hide-and-seek. Lucy, the youngest of the children, hides in a wardrobe, but discovers that the door to it is a portal to a snow-covered forest with a gaslight post in the centre. There she meets a faun, who introduces himself as Tumnus and invites her home for tea. He tells her that the land is called Narnia and it is ruled by the ruthless White Witch, who ensures that it is always Winter but never Christmas.  Lucy returns, but her siblings don’t believe her “Narnia” story.  Several weeks pass, Lucy re-enters Narnia and Edmund follows but meets a White Queen who promises to make him a Prince if he brings his brother and sisters to her.  Lucy meets up with Edmund who is now alone and they head back through the wardrobe.  When they arrive back in England, Edmund lies to Peter and Susan, claiming that he and Lucy were just playing and that the wardrobe is no more than an ordinary one, leaving Lucy very upset.  Shortly thereafter, all four children hide in the wardrobe to avoid a tour group and find themselves in Narnia. Lucy guides them to Tumnus’s cave, only to discover that Tumnus has been captured. The children are sheltered by a pair of talking beavers named Mr. Beaver and Mrs. Beaver, who recount an ancient prophecy that when two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve fill the four thrones at Cair Paravel, the witch’s power will fail. The beavers tell of the true king of Narnia — a great lion called Aslan — who has been absent for many years, but is now “On the move again.”

Edmund, still in the thrall of the witch, runs off to the White Witch’s castle and the others do not notice his departure until it is too late to recall him. Realizing that they have been betrayed, the others set off to find Aslan. When Edmund reaches the White Witch, she treats him harshly and, taking him with her, sets off to catch the other children.

However, her power is failing and a thaw strands her sleigh. The other children reach Aslan, and a penitent Edmund is rescued just as the witch is about to kill him.  The witch demands that Edmund be returned to her, as an ancient law gives her possession of all traitors. Aslan, acknowledging the law, offers himself in Edmund’s place and the witch accepts.  Aslan is sacrificed by the witch on the stone table.  After the Witch leaves for battle, the stone table cracks and Aslan comes back to life.  Aslan explains due to the “Deeper magic” an innocent being cannot be sacrificed. During the final battle, the witch is defeated and killed by Aslan.  Afterward, the children become kings and queens of Narnia, and spend many years in Narnia, growing to maturity, before returning to their world unexpectedly, where they find themselves children again.

Theme:  Aslan was, is, and always shall be victorious.

Impressions:  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the first of the seven Chronicles of Narnia by unequaled English author C.S. Lewis. These books are able to accomplish something that few other books in all of literature have been able to achieve. They are able to be at once great and entertaining literature as well as insightful and profound theology. Neither unnecessarily subtle nor offensively overbearing, the Christian allegory that Lewis unfolds is strong enough to be apparent to one accustomed to Christian narrative and imagery while not so blunt as to take away from the reading experience of one without such a frame of reference.  The story is captivating–the magical land of Narnia and its mysterious inhabitants are portrayed vividly by Lewis. The characters, both the main children and the Narnian creatures, are colorful and entertaining.  This is one that every person (whether young or old) should experience.

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Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (1951)

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Author:  C.S. Lewis

Genre:  Fantasy

Point of View: 3^rd Person

Pages:  190 pages

Age Recommendations:  8 and Up

Main Characters:  Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, Prince Caspian, and Aslan.

Plot:  While standing on a train station in 1941, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are magically whisked away to a beach near an old and ruined castle. They soon discover that the ruins are Cair Paravel, where they once ruled as the Kings and Queens of Narnia. Although only a year has passed in their world, 1300 years have passed in Narnia.

Trumpkin, a dwarf whom they rescue from drowning, tells them the sad tale: During their absence, a race of men called Telmarines has invaded Narnia, driving the Talking Beasts into the wilderness and pushing even their memory underground. Narnia now is ruled by King Miraz, a cruel despot.

Miraz is also a usurper, having killed his brother, King Caspian IX, to take the throne. His nephew, Prince Caspian, is initially ignorant of his uncle’s evil deeds, but learns the truth, and also learns about Old (pre-Telmarine) Narnia from Doctor Cornelius, his tutor. Miraz was childless and was thus willing for Caspian to be his heir, but when the Queen has a son, Cornelius warns Caspian that his life is now in danger. Caspian escapes and finds himself among the Talking Beasts. They accept him as the True King of Narnia and promise to help him regain this throne.

An army is assembled—although it is far short of the mighty armies that Narnia has been able to assemble in the past. Prince Caspian fights as best he can, but has been slowly losing to Miraz. Desperate for help, Caspian has blown Queen Susan’s horn—and it was that act that called the four children to Narnia.

Having heard the story, the true Kings and Queens of Narnia make their way to the battlefield. But the journey is long and hard, and the children lose their way. It is then that Lucy sees Aslan. Unfortunately, the others do not believe her. Their faith is tested, but in the end, Aslan leads them to Caspian. The forces of evil are defeated in a battle by Aslan’s table. Miraz is killed by Glozelle, one of his own men.

In the end, Aslan tells the Telmarines of their true origin, from the world of men, where their ancestors were pirates in the South Seas who fell through a gap between worlds. He allows the Telmarines a choice of staying on equal terms with the Old Narnians, or of returning to their now unpopulated island. Many go back, especially the older ones, and the children are sent back to the train station.

Theme:  Never doubt that good will always prevail.

Impressions:  “Now child,” said Aslan, when they had left the trees behind them, “I will wait here. Go and wake the others and tell them to follow. If they will not, then you at least must follow me alone.”  This piece of dialogue is one of the reasons why Lewis is one of my favorite authors. In the span of three sentences in a children’s book, Lewis captures the essence of Christ’s universal call to be His disciples. Another amazing thing about Lewis (and another reason why he’s a favorite author of mine)…is that the book grows progressively more spellbinding and instructive from that point in the story on. Prince Caspian is, like many of Lewis’ books, a whole education crammed into a tiny little package–all told in a warm and humorous way. Get a copy today. Then read it. There is a lot to be learned from this book.

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