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    By Bela Greene The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has many themes; the biggest theme that I have seen in the book is allegory or religion. The book begins with all four kids being sent away. Lucy finds a room that has a big wardrobe in it. Lucy starts walking through the wardrobe and when she gets there Lucy meets a red goat like human with horns and a tail. At first I thought Mr. Tumnus represented the devil but later in the book a woman also known as white witch tempted Edmund with food and

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    The Witch The movie The Witch, directed by Robert Eggers in 2015, is a folk horror film set in New England in the 1600s. The movie follows a Puritan family who face an evil psyche in the woods surrounding the farm they live at. This family consists of a husband and wife, with five children. They recently had their fifth child, along with two twin children- a boy and a girl- the eldest son, Caleb, and Thomasin. Thomasin is the main character who is portrayed as the outcast of her family. In the beginning

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    C. S. Lewis is the magnificent author of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. He brought a thrilling and adventurous tale together to help people understand christ. It will have any reader hooked and wondering what is to come with the turn of every page. His novel uses allegory to the bible. He also created christian based characters in a way that will keep more interest. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe has unique allegory to the Bible, christian based characters, and is a perfect fictional

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    the story of Rapunzel, a young girl taken by a witch and locked in a tower. “Rapunzel” is a story collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers’ Grimm, about a young girl locked in a tower. Although they seem quite similar, there are quite a few differences between the movie Tangled and the Brothers’ Grimm “Rapunzel”. One difference occurs at the beginning and how the evil witch gains possession of Rapunzel. In the Brothers’ Grimm story, the witch agrees to let the man give the rampion from

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    The Mathers: The Father and Son Stand on Spectral Evidence during the Salem Witch Trials Is unpunished witchcraft a sin against God, or do the lives of innocent people take precedence? The answer to this question lies in the understanding of spectral evidence. It is the question that prompted the Mathers to produce the answer which ended the Salem witch trials. Witchcraft had been around prior to the witch trials in Massachusetts. Accusations and persecutions of witches and wizards date back

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    Why I Read Wicked

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    "thingies". However, once you get used to the format of it, it's really easy to get into. In all my years I never would have stopped to think about the past of the Wicked Witch of the West (or the East for that matter). Who would have thought that Glinda and the Wicked Witches were roommates at boarding school, or that the witch is so mean because her lover was killed? I sure wouldn't have thought that far into their backstories. I remember Richard Armitage saying in an interview that when he takes

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    possibly even a symbolic figure of satan himself. The White Witch—Jadis is a power-hungry, sadistic person who claimed the throne of Narnia by brute force. When she first appears in the novel, it's through the distressed conversation between Lucy and Tumnus. This immediately gives the White Witch a vile and villainous image. However, it's not until the Witch runs into Edmund, when the reader can truly start to see the connections between the witch and her biblical counterparts. In Genesis, Adam and Eve

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    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

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    food > magically appears on the kitchen, where gates are opened for you and > where unexpected things approach you. Either good or bad. This book is > called The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney. Thomas J. Ward(aka, Tom) > is the seventh son of a seventh son whom is sent to The Spook by his > mother(aka Mum) The Spook(aka Mr. Gregory) is Tom's boss that teaches > him lessons he wont forget. The book changes settings often but the > most recent setting the main character visits and is at is his

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    The chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a British-American fantasy adapted from a book by C.S. Lewis. It was directed by Andrew Adamson and co-produced by Walden media and Walt Disney pictures and was released on the December 9,2005 in both Europe and North America. As the gun shot started the four children and their mum had to go into hiding. They later went to an old professor Kirk (Jim Broadbent) place to stay this was when Lucy stumbled upon a magic wardrobe while playing

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