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    Kendall Childers Dr. Sagerson ENGL 1302 September 14, 2015 Noble Act Andrew Anderson’s film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe starts off with four siblings who are escaping from the air strikes of World War II. The children escape to an old man’s mansion where they find a wardrobe that has a magical doorway to a mystical land called Narnia. While they are walking in Narnia their brother wonders off and finds the evil White Witch who lures him in through gluttony away from

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    Lewis’ personality is personified in The Chronicles of Narnia, and specifically in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader through the children. The children Lucy, Edmund, Caspian, and Eustace are searching for the seven missing lords exiled by King Caspian’s odorous Uncle Miraz. Additionally, they are searching for the “far east” or Aslan’s country. But more pointedly Edmund and Lucy are continually searching for Aslan. In the novels, Aslan is a huge lion that appears from time to time offering assistance

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    series, The Chronicles of Narnia. The book series is regarded as a classic of children’s literature and is Lewis’s best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages. The books were written around 1950 and have been adapted through several mediums, including film. In particular, the film creation of the first of the seven books, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, made in 2005, presents a problematic dynamic of gender, genre, and religion. The Chronicles of Narnia book series

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    The Chronicles of Narnia Book Report Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie are all siblings sent to live in the care of the wise Professor Kirke amid World War II. The children investigate the house on a stormy day and Lucy, the most youthful, finds a colossal closet. Lucy ventures inside and winds up in a weird, blanketed wood. Lucy experiences the Faun Tumnus, who is astonished to meet a human young lady. Tumnus tells Lucy that she has entered Narnia, an alternate world. Tumnus welcomes Lucy

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    C.S Lewis is a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist, however, he is famously known as the writer of The Chronicles of Narnia where he has purposely and obviously implemented Christian symbolism throughout all seven of his works in the series, especially The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Lewis, who grew up as a young, confused Christian boy loved stories. He was always confused about his faith and not

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    If The Chronicles of Narnia is read in chronological order, C.S. Lewis introduces Polly Plummer as his first main female character in The Magician’s Nephew. However, the title indicates this story is not about her; it is about Digory, the magician’s nephew. She explores and travels with Digory as his friend, but her involvement in the story is mainly seen through her impact on Digory’s perspective and decisions. Nevertheless, by the same feminist ideology that declares each person prove her own merit

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    According to the Subtlety of C.S. Lewis’s Use of the Bible in The Chronicles of Narnia session, “In the book, during the visit to the Dark Island, Aslan continues this comparison with Jesus by sending an albatross that at first “looked like a cross” to lead them out of the darkness and into the light. Dawn Treader sails nears Aslan’s country, the light from the sun gets brighter and brighter, and everyone’s vision is improved by the ocean water, which has gotten sweeter and sweeter.” The imagery

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    being 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

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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

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    The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven high fantasy novels by C.S. Lewis and illustrated by Pauline Baynes, and originally published in London between 1950 and 1956. First we have The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950), Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), The Silver Chair (1953), The Horse and His Boy (1954) The Magician’s Nephew (1955), and lastly The Last Battle (1956). The Chronicles of Narnia are the most popular works of writer C.S

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