The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Lion,the Witch,and the Wardrobe
C.S Lewis
Genere:Imagitive Fiction
Reviewer: Katie

Would you like to open a door and enter a new world? Narnia, the land beyond the wardrobe, is a secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. This story takes place during World War II in London. The children are evacuated from London due to German bombing and staying with an elderly professor in his home. In their new home, the children began to explore.

Lucy, who was the youngest child, climbed into the wardrobe closet and found that it led to a snow-covered land called Narnia. In Narnia, she meets a fuan by the name of Mr. Tumnus. He tells her that Narnia is ruled by a wicked White Witch who has doomed it to always be winter, but never Christmas. Mr. Tumnus is to turn any human he finds to the White Witch, but he tells Lucy that he likes her and wants to help her return back to her world.

When Lucy returns back, no one believes her about her adventure. To prove that Narnia exists, she takes her brother Edmund with her into the wardrobe. He tries to follow her, but gets lost and caught by the White Witch. The witch gives him some Turkish Delight to eat and promises him power to become King of Narnia if he brings the other children to her castle.

Lucy and Edmund return home and convince the other children to come back to Narnia with them. There they find out that Tumnus has been captured for helping Lucy return home. The children then seek to help him. They come across two beavers who inform them that there is a myth. It states that the poor children of Adam and Eve must be placed in the throne of Cair Paravel, and if that were to happen, the evil time would be over and done with. This is something that the White Witch wanted to prevent.

Edmund decides to leave the group of children and meet the White Witch in order to obtain power from her. Once he gets there, he realizes that he was betrayed and the witch had no intention of giving him any power or more Turkish Delight! She then uses him to try and capture the other children. With the help of a great lion, Asian, the children confront the witch. However, in order to save the children, Asian gives himself up and is killed by the witch. In the end, Asian comes back to life, there is a battle, and asain finally kills the White witch. The children become kings and queens, spending many years in Narnia until they grew up. One day, they returned back to their world and found themselves as children again.

There are several main characters in the book. The four children are brothers and sisters. The eldest is Peter, who is the hero of the book by helping overthrow the White witch. Susan is the second oldest child. She did not believe in Narnia at first. After the victory, she is crowned Queen Susan. Edmund is the third child. He also did not believe Lucy, but when he did get to Narnia, he was enchanted and went over to the dark side for Turkish Delight and power. Eventually, he regretted this and helped save Narnia. Lucy is the youngest child. She is the one who discovered the land of Narnai. The White Witch is the queen of Narnia. It was her fear of prophecy that told that if two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve were ever to come to Narnia, the winter would end and her overthrow would be at hand. Aslan is the lion who sacrifices himself to spare the life of Edmund. He becomes reincarnated and eventually kills the White Witch. The professor is who cared for the children after their evacuation from London. Mr. Tumnus is a faun who helped Lucy return home when she stumbled onto Narnia.

My favorite character in the book was Edmund. Even though he was considered the villain of the book, I felt that he was the most interesting because he changed the most during the book. In the beginning, he did not believe Lucy’s stories of Narnia. Once in Narnia, he became tempted by the power that he could obtain and the endless supply of Turkish Delight he could have! Eventually, he realized that betraying his family was not right and then helped to overthrow the White Witch. I felt it was very interesting to watch how he was at first tempted by power but then realized how his actions might affect not himself, but his own family and the rest of the citizens of Narnia.