Recently, I've decided to start reading the books of all book based movies I've seen. I started off with The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and decided to move on to a novel by his close friend, C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the first novel of the series, The Magician's Nephew, so I had to start where Walt Disney begins the movie series, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sent to live in a house in the country while the war lasts. The four children find themselves in a huge house with complete freedom and decide to explore. On a rainy day, they stumble upon a room with a huge wardrobe in it. Uninterested, Peter, Susan and Edmund leave, but Lucy decides to take a look inside the wardrobe. What she finds there leaves her amazed: a whole other world called Narnia.
She excitedly tells her siblings about Narnia. No one believes her, until one day they all step inside the wardrobe and find themselves in the woods of Narnia. According to a prophecy, the fate of Narnia lies with them and they must free it from the rule of the White Queen, an evil sorceress who has put a spell of eternal winter on Narnia. The children are led to Aslan, the true King of Narnia, a lion whom even the White Queen cannot withstand, and prepare for battle.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a nice, light read and I went through the 200 large print pages pretty quickly. This is my first venture into fantasy and I enjoyed the depiction of another world and its talking creatures. Lewis also managed to show the personalities of the four siblings in this short novel rather well (especially Lucy and Edmund). This is the type of book that I would enjoy reading out loud with children on a rainy day.
She excitedly tells her siblings about Narnia. No one believes her, until one day they all step inside the wardrobe and find themselves in the woods of Narnia. According to a prophecy, the fate of Narnia lies with them and they must free it from the rule of the White Queen, an evil sorceress who has put a spell of eternal winter on Narnia. The children are led to Aslan, the true King of Narnia, a lion whom even the White Queen cannot withstand, and prepare for battle.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a nice, light read and I went through the 200 large print pages pretty quickly. This is my first venture into fantasy and I enjoyed the depiction of another world and its talking creatures. Lewis also managed to show the personalities of the four siblings in this short novel rather well (especially Lucy and Edmund). This is the type of book that I would enjoy reading out loud with children on a rainy day.
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Brady Bebeau
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5 December 2019
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
In the aural text version of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” C.S Lewis made a special bond between Lucy and Mr. Tumnus. Mr. Tumnus at first was going to betray Lucy, but through it all they had a special bond that ended up saving Mr. Tumnus in the end. Mr. Tumnus is the first person Lucy meets and quickly become friends surrounded with laughs, eating food, and joyful music.
In the aural text version of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” Mr. Tumnus refused to betray Lucy. Mr. Tumnus was the first character seen in Narnia. He gave Lucy food and made her feel welcome right from the start with a drink and telling her the history of Narnia. When he had a chance to kidnap her, he didn’t because he didn’t want to work for the witch and was crying when he tried to. The handkerchief that he gave back to the beaver before he got taken helped show a connection between the two.
The things that made Lucy and Mr. Tumnus bond so special was how open their relationship was. They had a good relationship in the aural text even after he openly said that he was going to kidnap her, but he never did, and the bond grew on from then. Not kidnapping her ultimately saved not only himself, but the rest of Narnia from the White Witch. In my opinion C.S. Lewis showed that there can always be forgiveness no matter what happens, because Lucy could have never came back to help Mr. Tumnus but she did in the end and saved him.
In conclusion of the aural text version of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” Mr. Tumnus and Lucy’s bond helped give the rest of Narnia freedom. If Mr. Tumnus betrayed Lucy the rest of the story in my opinion wouldn’t have ended the same way as it did. They were able to be friends instead, and that helped Lucy and the rest of the children save Narnia. These are the many things that made Lucy and Mr. Tumnus bond so special.
The Chronicles of Narnia presents taggering dream setting and storyline spoilt by amazingly unsubtle moral story and (as the story advances) exorbitant Christian sermonizing quality. Cautioning: Racial generalizations flourish and may annoy.
Prescribed for grown-ups who flourish in a Christian strict condition or the individuals who can disregard these angles absolutely and appreciate the story. Not for artless youngsters, except if joined by a recognizing grown-up.
When watching a movie, the watcher is mainly focused on the scene, but the sounds and background music create the setting for most the scenes. Within the movie scene “Lucy betrayed” the viewer can hear many different sound and music effects. The floors and the creaking in the old-fashioned home, along with the emotions in the kids voices and face expressions. Within the book the reader cannot hear these things happening. The words alone cannot help the reader to understand the feelings communicated by the written text. In the movie scene the viewer sees Edmunds face as he lies to his siblings about how him and Lucy never went into the wardrobe, seeing his face describes how the director wanted the watcher to see the shot and how they wanted them to feel. During this scene the emotions of the characters are of betray and sadness. The viewer could see where Edmund is coming from for lying and feel nothing towards Lucy crying. On the other hand, the viewer could feel almost hurt by what Edmund is doing to his little sister’s feelings.
One part of the story that piqued my interest was when Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy all travel to Narnia through the wardrobe. They are trying to hide from a group tour that is looking at the professor’s mansion, and they all go into the wardrobe to hide from the tour. They find that the wardrobe is seemingly much larger than how it looks. When they find that they are in Narnia, the first time for Peter and Susan, they discover that Edmund had lied about actually going there through the wardrobe previously. They decide that Lucy should decide where to explore first, and Lucy chooses to go see Mr. Tumnus, the fraun that she had met when she first stubbled Mr. Tumnus had explained to her that there are beings in Narnia that would turn the children over to the witch. Mr. Beaver turns out to be an ally, earning their trust by showing them the handkerchief that Lucy had given to Mr. Tumnus before she left.
This is important because this is the point in the story where the children all discover Narnia. When the children go to find Mr. Tumnus, they find that he had been arrested by the White Witch, which is the main conflict of the story. The children all ending up in Narnia is the moment of the story where the story truly begins, as this is when the main argument presents itself in the story.
I think that by identifying this point as a major milestone in the fictional timeline, you gain a certain understanding of being able to look at a problem from an outside perspective. By learning this skill through fictional stories, we can use these skills to look at events within our own lives and identify those major events. We can use this information to evaluate our own decisions, and formulate our future conduct based on the effects our decisions have made in the past.
Both versions of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe give two different experiences. The written version of the novel adds to the story but does not much detail. The film adds more detail to the story but cannot go as in depth as the written version. It takes special attention to notice the detail of the film. Most viewers don’t notice it. The camera work in the visual version also brings the attention to detail to a new level as well. They are both important because each version adds more drama or detail depending on which version of the story is seen.
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