The Magician's Nephew is a prequel to the series. The middle third of the novel features the creation of the Narnia world by Aslan the lion, centred on a section of a lamp-post brought by accidental observers from London in 1900. The visitors then participate in the beginning of Narnia's history, 1000 years before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [a] (which inaugurated the series in 1950). His villains are like Snidely Whiplash: they are comically evil, evil not due to some internal motivation, but because the narrative requires it. Yet Lewis is not reveling in the comedic promise of overblown evil, he's trying to be instructive. So he dooms his own instruction: it is only capable of warning us about dangers which are so ridiculous that they never could have tempted us in the first place. This book literally made me feel like that. I kept wondering why I did and figured out because of its voice that was very classic and magical that I didn't want it to be over. Besides the fun I get from this book, The Magician's Nephew is alike a doctrine as if I was reading the Bible. Tampoco olvidar algo que menciona Digory: ‘’No sé si me gustaría mucho seguir viviendo después de que todos los que conozco hubieran muerto. Prefiero vivir el tiempo habitual y morir e ir al cielo’’. Aquí claramente podemos apreciar al autor colándonos su religión y principios; pero, si consideramos que este es un título infantil/juvenil (lo que a mi entendimiento significa que en realidad es una lectura apta y disfrutable para todo público, al menos en este caso concreto), está muy bien. Lo está, dado el carácter de la obra, ya que a más de algún niño pudo haber influenciado en el buen sentido; aunque por detrás haya fines religiosos aplicados de forma explícita. C.S. Lewis pareciera ser un portavoz de sus principios y religión.

Should have read this book years ago! It was wonderful in so many ways. First, the magic. One of my biggest pet peeves with fantasy is that I am not a visual person so I can't envision what the author is describing. Never fear! First, this book was more realistic fantasy so you didn't have to imagine all sorts of new inventions. Second, the book had illustrations. The Talking Animals: Oh these darling, darling animals! I cannot express enough love for these creatures. Very few authors can accurately portray true innocence – but Lewis can. I rejoiced in the boundless and joyful innocence of these dear animals. These, sturdy, good-hearted and thoroughly British animals, blessed with Life by the Lion and romping for the sheer joy of it. Lewis used his talking animals to show that there is nobility in servitude and submission, and beauty in the unclutteredness of a simple spirit. I adored every one of these thoughtful and humorous creatures so much. But I must give special mention of Fledge, who, unlike the other animals, started out as a very ordinary, dull beast and was given new, magnificent life by Aslan (while still retaining that sturdy personality). The only Pegasus ever mentioned (or at least dwelt on) by Lewis, Fledge is definitely a wonderful character. Dorsett, Lyle (1995). Marjorie Lamp Mead (ed.). C. S. Lewis: Letters to Children. Touchstone. ISBN 978-0-684-82372-0. Lewis is simply unable to put himself in another's shoes, which is very problematic for a writer or a theologian. He cannot understand the reasons or motivations for why someone would do something he considers 'evil'. Unlike Milton, he cannot create a tempting devil, a sympathetic devil, and so Lewis' devils are not dangerous, because no one would ever fall for them.Queen Helen: The wife of King Frank, the first queen of Narnia, and the ancestress of the Archenlanders Uncle Andrew begins telling them of a great experiment he is performing. The children ask to leave because it is dinner time. Andrew refuses to let them leave but as the children further beg to leave, Andrew appears to change his mind. Before they leave, however, he offers Polly one of the yellow rings. Polly is delighted to know that she can have one of the rings she was so curious about. She approaches the tray, noting that the humming noise in the room grows louder as she gets nearer the rings. Just as Digory yells out to Polly not to touch the rings, she touches one of them and vanishes, leaving Digory and Andrew alone in the room. Digory ya no sentiría miedo del tío Andrew jamás, igual que uno tampoco sentiría miedo de un gusano después de haberse tropezado con una serpiente de cascabel ni le temería a una vaca después de enfrentarse a un toro enloquecido’’.

My son was an only child for 12 years, (before the Disney princesses, Pocahontas and Jasmine, arrived), and I read to him, every night, religiously, for an hour, including C.S. Lewis's Narnia collection. Lewis had his way to tell the story. He thoroughly showed me about this world where the origin of Narnia comes from. Not only I got to know about the wardrobe, but I was introduced to the characer that would be a big part in the next book. The Magician's Nephew should be read before The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for you to get full knowledge about this world. One day, Polly Plummer, a young girl living in a London row house, is surprised to meet a young boy, Digory, who’s moved in next door. He’s living with his old, unmarried aunt and uncle, the Ketterleys, because his mother is dying and his father is away in India. The two children speculate about Digory’s “mad” Uncle Andrew and Andrew’s mysterious study. Polly and Digory become friends and spend the summer exploring the interconnected attics of the row houses. A BBC Radio 4 adaptation exists. [55] Focus on the Family also made an adaptation of this book with a full cast, sound editing, and music. [56] Both productions adapted all seven books.

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If you had seen and heard it, as Digory did, you would have felt quite certain that it was the stars themselves which were singing, and that it was the First Voice, the deep one, which had made them appear and made them sing. Pattertwig and Aunt Gertrude do not appear in the final version of the novel. Pattertwig does, however, appear as a Narnian creature in Prince Caspian, and Aunt Gertrude's career path is retraced by the Head of Experiment House in The Silver Chair. [11] Authenticity [ edit ] It was awesome to read about the origins of Narnia. The lamp post and the witch and whatnot. Aslan. That was just autocorrected to Asian so that was funny. I don't have any reason to believe he is an Asian lion, but I again haven't read the entire series yet so that could be explored in future novels where Aslan spends his childhood as a small lion cub in Beijing before creating Narnia later in life. I don't think that's accurate though. The verdurous wall of Paradise up sprung... And higher than that Wall a circling row Of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue, Appeerd, with gay enameld colours mixt... [30] One gate there only was, and that look'd east On th' other side... [31]

Polly lives in row housing. One day, while she is in her garden, a grubby faced young boy pokes his head over the wall from the garden next door. Since no children had ever been in that house before, Polly is curious. The boy had apparently been crying andNarnia creator CS Lewis's letters to children go on sale". BBC News. 13 June 2019 . Retrieved 1 June 2022. There seems to be, at the heart of Lewis' works, a desperate pride, a desperate sense that we do know, even when we think we don't, even when Lewis shows us a hundred examples where we couldn't possibly know. But that is the crux of the fundamental paradox around which Lewis inevitably frames his stories, the paradox which defines his life, his philosophies, and the impetus for his conversion.