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    Introduction: How’d He Do That? Recognizing patterns can make reading easier by helping me comprehend what it is that I am reading. “Memory. Symbol. Pattern. These are the three items that, more than any other, separate the professional reader from the rest of the crowd.” (Foster xxvii). When I recognize the patterns that the author used when writing, I am able to better understand the structure of the chapter, the plot of the story, the point of view of all the characters and the language used

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    Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a movie based on the C. S. Lewis’ book series. C. S. Lewis was considered “perhaps the greatest defender of [Christian] faith of the twentieth century” as he fought to share God’s word in today’s society (CBN). Because of his religious background, the book and movie are based on religious aspects that can be related back to the Bible. Through the themes of similarity to Christian figures, compassion and forgiveness, and magic, Chidester and the

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    Good and Evil in Narnia The book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis has a plot full of good and evil. The White Witch claims to be the queen of Narnia and Leads an army of evil creatures working with her. The children: Lucy, Susan, Peter and Edmund represent the good side of Narnia including all the other creatures and of course the king of all the land, the great lion Aslan. The characters in the story battle with trust and relationships between themselves. This story relates to good

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    To a child, fantasy and reality often intermix. Children spend their days believing in the stories that they have been told, their implicit trust in authority figures lending them no doubt that what they are hearing is the unshakeable truth. In a sense, all books become historical texts. Why would an adult, a knowledgeable and trustworthy source, ever write anything but fact? For C.S. Lewis, this childish outlook on the world ensured that his novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, would take

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    read to by their parents and then slowly over time and learning, read for themselves. Children usually at this point either quit reading all together or continue to endure and learn into classical readings such as: Harry Potter, or The Chronicles of Narnia. Kids who go through school are forced to read to increase their comprehension skills, and the ones who read on their own outside of school as well, usually have an increased score than others. Mostly people who do not read on their own have trouble

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    Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a movie based on the C. S. Lewis’ book series. C. S. Lewis was considered “perhaps the greatest defender of [Christian] faith of the twentieth century” as he fought to share God’s word in today’s society (Stewart). Because of his religious background, the book and movie are based on religious aspects that can be related back to the Bible. Through the themes of similarity to Christian figures, compassion and forgiveness, and magic, Chidester and

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    The Chronicles of Narnia illustrates that by having courage and believing in yourself and others around you, you’ll be able to overcome any obstacles and be successful. This is shown through a number of archetypes, those being the castle archetype, the temptress archetype, and the damsel in distress archetype. Throughout the story, it’s shown that courage can conquer all. Although courage can’t always be obtained by oneself, it’s important to believe in others around you for guidance and support

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    corrupted by power but most are. Two people who unquestionably let power take them over are Hitler and Jadis also know as the White Witch in C.S. Lewis' classics The Chronicles of Narnia. A person who did not let power overtake them is Lucy Pevensie daughter of Eve Queen of Narnia also from C.S. Lewis' classics The Chronicles of Narnia. Aldof Hilter was a person who went insane from the power he held. (2) On a brisk springs day on the 20th of April in 1889 Adolf Hitler was born, he was a Austrian born German

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    You may know C.S. Lewis for writing the Chronicles of Narnia, but he was known for a variety of more things. He was known for writing novels, essays, critical commentary, autobiographies, poems, short stories, and he was also a diarist (“World” 2075). He would write about what he was going through of something based on what he believed. C.S. Lewis was a great author because he wrote from the heart and about things that impacted him the most. C.S. Lewis had a challenging childhood, but I believe

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    dynamics of Narnia and the conception of time. As Aslan awakens Father Time, Narnia becomes shaken up and the concept of time becomes ambiguous leading to the end of time for Narnia. In the end, monsters are devouring Narnia, leading the inhabitants of Narnia to escape the old Narnia in order to enter a new, and more real Narnia. As the monsters devour Narnia, the remains of Narnia become this blank, new world, which could be interpreted as the beginning of a world (the beginning of Narnia or the beginning

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