Calormen

world. The story follows pre-teen boy Shasta who, in a desperate attempt to escape his father selling him to a cruel slave owner, teams up with a talking horse to journey to the free-land of Narnia, but they have to travel through the Harsh land of Calormen, and they team up with other escapees along the way. The theme is laid out as sometimes having to work with different, challenging people is required to reaching a goal. Even from the first moments of the story, the theme is clearly shown. by teaming

Even if you do not get along with someone, it does not mean that you will never bury the hatchet. The story, The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis, takes place in Tashbaan, Archenland, Narnia, and Calormene. Shasta, Aravis, Bree, and Hwin all went on the adventure to Narnia from Calormene. Bree and Hwin are talking horses from Narnia, they were kidnaped from there and were forced to come to Calormene. Bree told Shasta about Narnia when they first met and they decided to run away so they could

C. S. Lewis was a celebrated academic in the field of medieval literature, first at Oxford University, then at Cambridge, where he held the first chair in medieval and Renaissance literature. He also was a noted convert to Christianity who in the 1940’s established himself as a popular Christian apologist with a series of wartime radio talks, later collected under the title Mere Christianity (1952). Between 1938 and 1945 he wrote a trilogy of science-fiction books (the Space Trilogy, consisting of

In 1950, eager readers approaching the children’s fantasy section of the bookstore were met with an unusual new title: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. To children, the combination of those three things was intriguing enough. To adults, the name of the author would have piqued more interest: C. S. Lewis, the renowned Christian writer. His name appears on such other titles as The Screwtape Letters, The Problem of Pain, The Weight of Glory, Miracles, and later Mere Christianity, a hallmark of

faith in Aslan. Even when the Anti-Christ-like Shift and his false lion are exposed, many Narnians conclude that Aslan was a sham to begin with. They encircle and defeat the dwindling army of King Tirian and, with the help of savage mercenaries from Calormen, begin tossing the survivors into a shed housing the idolatrous god, Tash. The children are thrown inside, only to be shielded from Tash by Aslan. The shed becomes a sort of portal, where the children and other Narnians watch as the Lion decrees