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    The novel, The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe, a fictional story by C.S. Lewis, took ten years to write and publish during the chaos of World War II. The war-torn historic reality of the 1950’s is reflected within the story as a fictional war breaks out inside Lewis’s story world, Narnia. Despite the atrocities of war, both real and fanatical, Lewis manages to drive home a message of forgiveness through his use of allusion to religious figures and beliefs within Christianity. From the moment we

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    The book The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe is the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia, setting the scene for the beloved series. While many of the characters in the book are non humans they can still show a lot about human nature. Although good and bad are really only concepts and nothing is set in stone we still use them to describe almost everything. Throughout the book the children,Susan, Peter, Edmund and Lucy seem to take on the roles of heroes or saviors in the story. Lucy specifically

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    Hobbit Book Comparison

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    The story started with the four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. One day, they stepped through a wardrobe and entered a different world, NARNIA, a land frozen in eternal winter, a country waiting to be set free. It was enslaved by the power of the White Witch. Edmund was absorbed by her, desiring to become the king of NARNIA. However, he was exploited, and his brother and sister would go to save him. They needed to face many problems. Thus, their adventure began. As all hope

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    The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Summary/book report By: Mica Hernandez Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, four siblings in World War II-era England, are sent away from London to live in the countryside, where they will be safe from air raids and bombings. While they are staying in a large, historic country house owned by an old professor, Lucy discovers that a certain wardrobe in a spare room is a gateway to a magical land called Narnia. In Narnia, Lucy meets and becomes friends with a Faun named

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    Aslan, in the Chronicles of Narnia, represents Jesus for many reasons. One main reason is that Aslan gives his life to save Edmund in the same way that Jesus sacrificed his own life to save us. Edmund was known as a traitor and the only way to remove that label was to get blood. Similarly, the only way to pay the price of sin is for a sinless person to die. Aslan’s death itself parallels Jesus’. When Aslan gives himself up for Edmund, the White Witch has him tied up and bound to the table, which

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    C.S Lewis is a very popular author who has written the Narnia books and also many other. These books are loved by many and also very much appreciated by others. He is able to suck a reader into the book they pick up and leave them wanting more. The settings, the dialogue, and the characters in the novel are very well developed. He has written many books, and does this in every book of his. The Narnia books are very fun to read and will leave the reader amazed. The characters portrayed in the novel

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    The fictitious book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, published by HarperCollins Publishers, took place during the time of the air raids in 1940’s London. The author, C. S. Lewis poured his imagination out onto the pages of the novel. The land of Narnia became an adventurous place for Lucy, the youngest of the Pevensie siblings, Edmund, the antagonizing brother, Peter, the leader, and Susan, the kind child. A wardrobe found in their caretaker’s dwelling transported these children to a world

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    Beowulf Chapter 1 Essay

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    Interpretive Predict what you think the queen will do about Aslan? Answer: try to turn him into stone, the queen will kill him How could you prove that Edmund had already seen the queen, Using only the 3 chapters that we have read? Answer: THe beaver said that he saw in Edmund's eyes that he had seen the queen, and that he had already traited them and gone to her side Why did Edmund leave the dinner table? Answer: To wanted to go see the queen and get more turkish delight, and wanted to be crowned

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    In the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Christology of Christ, which is the personality/nature of Christ, is made clear throughout the film and book through the character, Aslan. We first find out that the book is mentioning Christological ideas when Aslan mentions a presence that judges right and wrong, who is greater than all people. He is referring to God in Heaven who will judge us at the end of time. The Paschal Mystery of Christ, which the Passion, Death, Resurrection

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    The first thing you see when you pick up the book is the brilliantly designed cover with the title, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Immediately attracting the audience, the book is opened and before the reader delves into a wonderful world of imagination and fantasy, they reach the dedication page. Many people choose to ignore dedication pages, but if the time is taken to read the message written by the author, C.S. Lewis, to his Goddaughter, the audiences’ eyes will be open to a deeper level

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