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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader CHAPTER ONE

Author: C. S. Lewis

Series: The Chronicles of Narnia #3

Genres: Fantasy , Young Adult

CHAPTER ONE THE PICTURE IN THE BEDROOM THERE was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and masters called him Scrubb. I can't tell you how his friends spoke to him, for he had none. He didn't call his Father and Mother "Father" and "Mother", but Harold and Alberta. They were very up-to-date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotallers and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on beds and the windows were always open. Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if they were dead and pinned on a card. He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. Eustace Clarence disliked his cousins the four Pevensies, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. But he was quite glad when he heard that Edmund and Lucy were coming to stay. For deep down inside him he liked bossing and bullying; and, though he was a puny little person who couldn't have stood up even to Lucy, let alone Edmund, in a fight, he knew that there are dozens of ways to give people a bad time if you are in your own home and they are only visitors. Edmund and Lucy did not at all want to come and stay with Uncle Harold and Aunt Alberta. But it really couldn't be helped. Father had got a job lecturing in America for sixteen weeks that summer, and Mother was to go with him because she hadn't had a real holiday for ten years. Peter was working very hard for an exam and he was to spend the holidays being coached by old Professor Kirke in whose house these four children had had wonderful adventures long ago in the war years. If he had still been in that house he would have had them all to stay. But he had somehow become poor since the old days and was living in a small cottage with only one bedroom to spare. It would have cost too much money to take the other three all to America, and Susan had gone. Grown-ups thought her the pretty one of the family and she was no good at school work (though otherwise very old for her age) and Mother said she "would get far more out of a trip to America than the youngsters". Edmund and Lucy tried not to grudge Susan her luck, but it was dreadful having to spend the summer holidays at their Aunt's. "But it's far worse for me," said Edmund, "because you'll at least have a room of your own and I shall have to share a bedroom with that record stinker, Eustace." The story begins on an afternoon when Edmund and Lucy were stealing a few precious minutes alone together. And of course they were talking about Narnia, which was the name of their own private and secret country. Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect. Their secret country was real. They had already visited it twice; not in a game or a dream but in reality. They had got there of course by Magic, which is the only way of getting to Narnia. And a promise, or very nearly a promise, had been made them in Narnia itself that they would some day get back. You may imagine that they talked about it a good deal, when they got the chance. They were in Lucy's room, sitting on the edge of her bed and looking at a picture on the opposite wall. It was the only picture in the house that they liked. Aunt Alberta didn't like it at all (that was why it was put away in a little back room upstairs), but she couldn't get rid of it because it had been a wedding present from someone she did not want to offend. It was a picture of a ship - a ship sailing straight towards you. Her prow was gilded and shaped like the head of a dragon with wide-open mouth. She had only one mast and one large, square sail which was a rich purple. The sides of the ship - what you could see of them where the gilded wings of the dragon ended-were green. She had just run up to the top of one glorious blue wave, and the nearer slope of that wave came down towards you, with streaks and bubbles on it. She was obviously running fast before a gay wind, listing over a little on her port side. (By the way, if you are going to read this story at all, and if you don't know already, you had better get it into your head that the left of a ship when you are looking ahead, is port, and the right is starboard.) All the sunlight fell on her from that side, and the water on that side was full of greens and purples. On the other, it was darker blue from the shadow of the ship. "The question is," said Edmund, "whether it doesn't make things worse, looking at a Narnian ship when you can't get there." "Even looking is better than nothing," said Lucy. "And she is such a very Narnian ship." "Still playing your old game?" said Eustace Clarence, who had been listening outside the door and now came grinning into the room. Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that. "You're not wanted here," said Edmund curtly. "I'm trying to think of a limerick," said Eustace. "Something like this: "Some kids who played games about Narnia Got gradually balmier and balmier - " "Well Narnia and balmier don't rhyme, to begin with," said Lucy. "It's an assonance," said Eustace. "Don't ask him what an assy-thingummy is," said Edmund. "He's only longing to be asked. Say nothing and perhaps he'll go away." Most boys, on meeting a reception like this, would either have cleared out or flared up. Eustace did neither. He just hung about grinning, and presently began talking again. "Do you like that picture?" he asked. "For heaven's sake don't let him get started about Art and all that," said Edmund hurriedly, but Lucy, who was very truthful, had already said, "Yes, I do. I like it very much." "It's a rotten picture," said Eustace. "You won't see it if you step outside," said Edmund. "Why do you like it?" said Eustace to Lucy. "Well, for one thing," said Lucy, "I like it because the ship looks as if it was really moving. And the water looks as if it was really wet. And the waves look as if they were really going up and down." Of course Eustace knew lots of answers to this, but he didn't say anything. The reason was that at that very moment he looked at the waves and saw that they did look very much indeed as if they were going up and down. He had only once been in a ship (and then only as far as the Isle of Wight) and had been horribly seasick. The look of the waves in the picture made him feel sick again. He turned rather green and tried another look. And then all three children were staring with open mouths. What they were seeing may be hard to believe when you read it in print, but it was almost as hard to believe when you saw it happening. The things in the picture were moving. It didn't look at all like a cinema either; the colours were too real and clean and out-of-doors for that. Down went the prow of the ship into the wave and up went a great shock of spray. And then up went the wave behind her, and her stern and her deck became visible for the first time, and then disappeared as the next wave came to meet her and her bows went up again. At the same moment an exercise book which had been lying beside Edmund on the bed flapped, rose and sailed through the air to the wall behind him, and Lucy felt all her hair whipping round her face as it does on a windy day. And this was a windy day; but the wind was blowing out of the picture towards them. And suddenly with the wind came the noises-the swishing of waves and the slap of water against the ship's sides and the creaking and the overall high steady roar of air and water. But it was the smell, the wild, briny smell, which really convinced Lucy that she was not dreaming. "Stop it," came Eustace's voice, squeaky with fright and bad temper. "It's some silly trick you two are playing. Stop it. I'll tell Alberta - Ow!" The other two were much more accustomed to adventures, but, just exactly as Eustace Clarence said "Ow," they both said "Ow" too. The reason was that a great cold, salt splash had broken right out of the frame and they were breathless from the smack of it, besides being wet through. "I'll smash the rotten thing," cried Eustace; and then several things happened at the same time. Eustace rushed towards the picture. Edmund, who knew something about magic, sprang after him, warning him to look out and not to be a fool. Lucy grabbed at him from the other side and was dragged forward. And by this time either they had grown much smaller or the picture had grown bigger. Eustace jumped to try to pull it off the wall and found himself standing on the frame; in front of him was not glass but real sea, and wind and waves rushing up to the frame as they might to a rock. He lost his head and clutched at the other two who had jumped up beside him. There was a second of struggling and shouting, and just as they thought they had got their balance a great blue roller surged up round them, swept them off their feet, and drew them down into the sea. Eustace's despairing cry suddenly ended as the water got into his mouth. Lucy thanked her stars that she had worked hard at her swimming last summer term. It is true that she would have got on much better if she had used a slower stroke, and also that the water felt a great deal colder than it had looked while it was only a picture. Still, she kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everyone ought to do who falls into deep water in their clothes. She even kept her mouth shut and her eyes open. They were still quite near the ship; she saw its green side towering high above them, and people looking at her from the deck. Then, as one might have expected, Eustace clutched at her in a panic and down they both went. When they came up again she saw a white figure diving off the ship's side. Edmund was close beside her now, treading water, and had caught the arms of the howling Eustace. Then someone else, whose face was vaguely familiar, slipped an arm under her from the other side. There was a lot of shouting going on from the ship, heads crowding together above the bulwarks, ropes being thrown. Edmund and the stranger were fastening ropes round her. After that followed what seemed a very long delay during which her face got blue and her teeth began chattering. In reality the delay was not very long; they were waiting till the moment when she could be got on board the ship without being dashed against its side. Even with all their best endeavours she had a bruised knee when she finally stood, dripping and shivering, on the deck. After her Edmund was heaved up, and then the miserable Eustace. Last of all came the stranger - a golden-headed boy some years older than herself. "Ca - Ca - Caspian!" gasped Lucy as soon as she had breath enough. For Caspian it was; Caspian, the boy king of Narnia whom they had helped to set on the throne during their last visit. Immediately Edmund recognized him too. All three shook hands and clapped one another on the back with great delight. "But who is your friend?" said Caspian almost at once, turning to Eustace with his cheerful smile. But Eustace was crying much harder than any boy of his age has a right to cry when nothing worse than a wetting has happened to him, and would only yell out, "Let me go. Let me go back. I don't like it." "Let you go?" said Caspian. "But where?" Eustace rushed to the ship's side, as if he expected to see the picture frame hanging above the sea, and perhaps a glimpse of Lucy's bedroom. What he saw was blue waves flecked with foam, and paler blue sky, both spreading without a break to the horizon. Perhaps we can hardly blame him if his heart sank. He was promptly sick. "Hey! Rynelf," said Caspian to one of the sailors. "Bring spiced wine for their Majesties. You'll need something to warm you after that dip." He called Edmund and Lucy their Majesties because they and Peter and Susan had all been Kings and Queens of Narnia long before his time. Narnian time flows differently from ours. If you spent a hundred years in Narnia, you would still come back to our world at the very same hour of the very same day on which you left. And then, if you went back to Narnia after spending a week here, you might find that a thousand Narnian years had passed, or only a day, or no time at all. You never know till you get there. Consequently, when the Pevensie children had returned to Narnia last time for their second visit, it was (for the Narnians) as if King Arthur came back to Britain, as some people say he will. And I say the sooner the better. Rynelf returned with the spiced wine steaming in a flagon and four silver cups. It was just what one wanted, and as Lucy and Edmund sipped it they could feel the warmth going right down to their toes. But Eustace made faces and spluttered and spat it out and was sick again and began to cry again and asked if they hadn't any Plumptree's Vitaminized Nerve Food and could it be made with distilled water and anyway he insisted on being put ashore at the next station. "This is a merry shipmate you've brought us, Brother," whispered Caspian to Edmund with a chuckle; but before he could say anything more Eustace burst out again. "Oh! Ugh! What on earth's that! Take it away, the horrid thing." He really had some excuse this time for feeling a little surprised. Something very curious indeed had come out of the cabin in the poop and was slowly approaching them. You might call it - and indeed it was - a Mouse. But then it was a Mouse on its hind legs and stood about two feet high. A thin band of gold passed round its head under one ear and over the other and in this was stuck a long crimson feather. (As the Mouse's fur was very dark, almost black, the effect was bold and striking.) Its left paw rested on the hilt of a sword very nearly as long as its tail. Its balance, as it paced gravely along the swaying deck, was perfect, and its manners courtly. Lucy and Edmund recognized it at once Reepicheep, the most valiant of all the Talking Beasts of Narnia, and the Chief Mouse. It had won undying glory in the second Battle of Beruna. Lucy longed, as she had always done, to take Reepicheep up in her arms and cuddle him. But this, as she well knew, was a pleasure she could never have: it would have offended him deeply. Instead, she went down on one knee to talk to him. Reepicheep put forward his left leg, drew back his right, bowed, kissed her hand, straightened himself, twirled his whiskers, and said in his shrill, piping voice: "My humble duty to your Majesty. And to King Edmund, too." (Here he bowed again.) "Nothing except your Majesties' presence was lacking to this glorious venture." "Ugh, take it away," wailed Eustace. "I hate mice. And I never could bear performing animals. They're silly and vulgar and-and sentimental." "Am I to understand," said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, "that this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not - " At this moment Lucy and Edmund both sneezed. "What a fool I am to keep you all standing here in your wet things," said Caspian. "Come on below and get changed. I'll give you my cabin of course, Lucy, but I'm afraid we have no women's clothes on board. You'll have to make do with some of mine. Lead the way, Reepicheep, like a good fellow." "To the convenience of a lady," said Reepicheep, "even a question of honour must give way - at least for the moment - " and here he looked very hard at Eustace. But Caspian hustled them on and in a few minutes Lucy found herself passing through the door into the stern cabin. She fell in love with it at once - the three square windows that looked out on the blue, swirling water astern, the low cushioned benches round three sides of the table, the swinging silver lamp overhead (Dwarfs' work, she knew at once by its exquisite delicacy) and the flat gold image of Aslan the Lion on the forward wall above the door. All this she took in in a flash, for Caspian immediately opened a door on the starboard side, and said, "This'll be your room, Lucy. I'll just get some dry things for myself - " he was rummaging in one of the lockers while he spoke - "and then leave you to change. If you'll fling your wet things outside the door I'll get them taken to the galley to be dried." Lucy found herself as much at home as if she had been in Caspian's cabin for weeks, and the motion of the ship did not worry her, for in the old days when she had been a queen in Narnia she had done a good deal of voyaging. The cabin was very tiny but bright with painted panels (all birds and beasts and crimson dragons and vines) and spotlessly clean. Caspian's clothes were too big for her, but she could manage. His shoes, sandals and sea-boots were hopelessly big but she did not mind going barefoot on board ship. When she had finished dressing she looked out of her window at the water rushing past and took a long deep breath. She felt quite sure they were in for a lovely time.

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C.S. Lewis’s Narnia Chronicles has been a bestseller in the category of children’s stories, having sold 120 million copies in 47 languages since the first book of the series appeared in 1947. The seven books are adventures in the magical land of Narnia. In his highly acclaimed work, The Narnian, Alan Jacobs argues that every major theme Lewis addresses in his literary works and apologetics is reflected in the Narnia Chronicles. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (VDT), the third in the series, is coming to the screen in December. The first film, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (LWW), is number 36 in the list of best-grossing movies. Prince Caspian (PC) did not do as well, but there is hope that all seven books in the series will be seen in the theaters.

In VDT Edmund and Lucy return to Narnia with their cousin, Eustace, onboard a ship called the Dawn Treader, where they meet King Caspian. Peter and Susan, principal characters in LWW and PC, do not return to Narnia in the novel. However, they do make a cameo appearance in the film. The reason for the voyage is to find seven lost lords from Narnia who have not returned from a voyage. They also hope by sailing to the east, to come to the end of the world. Edmund and Lucy have many adventures on the seas and on islands they discover. Let’s consider the characters, a plot summary, and Aslan’s role in the novel, before focusing on specific thematic temptations presented in the unfolding story....

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• Full Title: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• When Written: 1949–1952
• Where Written: Oxford, England
• When Published: 1952
• Literary Period: Post-World War II
• Genre: Middle Grade Novel, Fantasy
• Setting: Narnia
• Climax: The Dawn Treader goes as far east as it can.
• Antagonist: Temptation
• Point of View: Third Person Omniscient

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Bad Timing. Many well-known authors receive renewed interest in their work when news of their death breaks. This mostly didn’t happen for Lewis because he died an hour before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Surprise! Lewis wrote an autobiography called Surprised by Joy about his experience with Christianity. Shortly after, he met a woman named Joy Gresham for the first time and eventually married her.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way the... Read all Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edg... Read all Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.

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• Trivia The drawings of the characters during the end credits are the exact drawings that appeared in the book. This is a tribute to Pauline Baynes , the series' illustrator, who passed away on August 2, 2008, at 85.
• Goofs In The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) , Caspian ( Ben Barnes ) spoke with a pronounced Spanish accent, as did the other Telmarines. In this film, Caspian now speaks with an English accent. This is done purposefully by the filmmakers, who no longer needed to match Caspian's accent to the other Telmarines, so they chose to use the actor's more realistic natural British accent. People's accents change over time in real life as well.

Lucy Pevensie : Will you come and visit us in our world?

Aslan : I shall be watching you always.

Lucy Pevensie : How?

Aslan : In your world, I have another name. You must learn to know me by it. That was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

• Alternate versions German theatrical version was cut by 76 seconds (primarily the end fight) to secure a "Not under 6" rating. This version was also released on DVD and 2D Blu-ray. However, the 3D Blu-ray release contains the uncut version - in 3D AND 2D.
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CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics, the Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.

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42. Where Does the Inspiration Come From?

The idea of Narnia first began when author C.S. Lewis spent part of his childhood in Northern Ireland. Lewis and his brother apparently had a lot of time on their hands, so they would create imaginary worlds out of nowhere, which later influenced his characterization of Lucy Pevensie and her own creative imagination.

41. Procrastination, Such an Aggravation

According to C.S. Lewis himself, he first conceived the basic idea of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  when he was 16 years old. Lewis first envisioned “a picture of a Faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood” but he didn’t get around to actually writing out the story until he “was about forty".

40. No Lion? You’re Lyin’!

The only character to appear in all seven books of the series is Aslan the lion. However, he didn’t actually appear in the first draft of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . In fact, Lewis was struggling with the story until “Aslan came bounding into it". Try to imagine this series without Aslan in it! We dare you!

39. I Hope They Got Some Royalties

Another inspiration which C.S. Lewis had before working on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe came to him in the form of three girls sent from London in 1939 to live with Lewis in the countryside. These girls—named Margaret, Mary, and Katherine—went on to inspire the four siblings who first traveled to Narnia while waiting out the Second World W.

38. From Subconscious to Conscious

Contrary to popular belief, C.S. Lewis denied that he intentionally wrote the Narnia books as Christian stories from the start, but he did say that the themes subconsciously appeared in his early writing and that he embraced them whole-heartedly by the time the last books were published.

37. Clear Message from Here on Out

It’s hard to say where exactly C.S. Lewis decided to go whole-hog with the Christian allegory in his Narnia  books, but some have pointed to the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as a pretty clear example of Christian messages being used. In that book, Aslan is initially found in the form of a lamb, which is an animal often associated with Christianity. Aslan also points out that he exists in the world of humans, but he has a different name. It’s about as subtle as, well, a talking lion with the powers of God.

36. Special Thanks to Roger

It wasn’t C.S. Lewis who came up with the title The Chronicles of Narnia to describe his seven books. It was his friend and fellow author, Roger Lancelyn Green, who coined the title in a letter he wrote to Lewis in 1951.

35. Even More Thanks to Roger!

Roger Lancelyn Green also prompted C.S. Lewis to write more books after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . Lewis was content with that first book until Green challenged him with a question; what was that lamppost doing in Narnia in the first place? Rather than tell his friend to stop overthinking it, Lewis began writing The Magician’s Nephew to answer that question.

34. This World is Big Enough for the Both of Us

While Aslan is portrayed as the godlike figure of Narnia, other gods do appear in the series. One of them is the deity known as Bacchus, who makes an appearance in Prince Caspian to save the day. Bacchus was a Roman god whose identity and origin story was taken nearly entirely from Dionysus, the Greek god of booze, celebrations, and hedonism.

33. Priorities

It reportedly took C.S. Lewis a total of eight years to write all seven books in The Chronicles of Narnia series. Interestingly, though, only three months of that time was spent writing The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe .

32. Let’s Go to the Movies!

In 2005, a big-budget film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  was released into theatres, making over $700 million at the box office. Film adaptations of Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader were released in 2008 and 2010 respectively. An adaptation of The Silver Chair  is also said to be in the works as well.

31. On Second Thought…

Before he settled on The Silver Chair as a title for one of his books, C.S. Lewis also considered calling said book The Wild Waste Lands , Night Under Narnia , News Under Narnia,  and Gnomes Under Narnia . You can decide for yourselves which title he should have used.

30. Keep Breathing! That’s the Key!

The character of Aslan is shown to have a magic breath, in that he can either provide strength to characters, undo the magic of the White Witch, or even create all of Narnia with his breath—which makes us wonder what happens when Aslan has to sneeze. Given that the Greek and Hebrew words for breath, when translated, became ‘spirit’ and ‘ghost,’ scholars have made a connection between Aslan’s breath of life and the Holy Spirit in Christian doctrine.

29. Lewis Loved His Lore…

Early on in The Last Battle , the character of Shift dresses up a donkey named Puzzle in a lion-skin so that he can impersonate Aslan. This is a reference to Aesop’s fable titled The behind in the Lion’s Skin.

28. Original Names

As most of you will know, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe follows the adventures of Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, four siblings who enter the world of Narnia through a wardrobe and become embroiled in the conflict between Aslan and the White Witch. It might interest you to know that C.S. Lewis actually had different names for three of his protagonists in the first drafts: he named his kids Peter, Ann, Martin, and Rose. Not sure why he changed his mind on the names, but you do you, Lewis.

27. Did She Turn into a Snake Too?

In The Magician’s Nephew , the character of Jadis—AKA the White Witch—takes on a role which parallels that of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost . Like Satan, she tries to fool and trick the protagonist by manipulating the truth and even outright lying. This even involves Jadis tempting Digory with an apple, though in this case the apple will grant immortality rather than knowledge. C.S. Lewis just loved his English literature courses!

26. The Book Never Sold Well in Russia Anyway…

After studying The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , and looking at the historical context when the book was released, scholar Roger Chapman has made a case out of finding a strong Cold W theme in the book. According to Chapman, Narnia’s early portrayal of being locked in permanent winter and not celebrating Christmas is a representation of the Soviet Union under Communism. The purges and arrests of Narnians, coupled with the secret authorities figures, are meant to represent the terrifying dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. As the book came out in 1950, these themes would certainly be very familiar to people of the time.

25. We Are All Connected

One of the themes of the Narnia  books is a conflict between two views of the natural world. As is made especially clear in The Magician’s Nephew , there is a natural order to the world of Narnia, which invokes the ancient view of life known as the Great Chain of Being, with the everybody having their place while also being linked to everything else—and yes, it’s okay that you’re thinking of Mufasa’s “circle of life” speech right now, The Lion King took influence from the Great Chain as well.

24. The Fires of Industry

In contrast to this respect of nature for its own sake, there is the opposing viewpoint which the villains of the Narnia books frequently have, where nature exists to be exploited for self-gain. We’re pretty sure that Tolkien would have applauded this approach, given how his villains treat nature as well.

23. Why Not Susan?!

One thing which has always been hotly contested and debated about the Narnia books is the fate of Susan Pevensie. In The Last Battle , all the Pevensie siblings, including their cousins and their parents, return to be with Aslan, except for Susan. It’s explained that Susan is “no longer a friend of Narnia” and is “interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations". Many have waved this off as Susan simply growing out of childhood fantasies while many others have decried it as Susan no longer being welcome in Narnia due to her having matured and embraced her sexuality as a woman. It remains to be a topic without a sure answer, however.

22. Joke’s on You!

As popular as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  became, C.S. Lewis faced a serious uphill battle getting the book published at all. In 1950, high fantasy stories were seen as highly unsuitable for anyone except very young children. Lewis, however, had so much fun writing the book that he didn’t care. Much to his surprise, the book became highly popular, defying the pessimism of his publisher, Geoffery Bles. Bles must have been pretty red in the face when that happened!

21. Can’t Satisfy Them All

Even upon its initial release, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  received criticism from concerned parents and authority figures. Some claimed that the book’s brutality would be too frightening for children to handle, while others accused the author of attempting to indoctrinate children with the book’s Christian leanings.

20. History is Our Inspiration

In the events prior to the main storyline of Prince Caspian , the realm of Narnia has been invaded and conquered by a race of people known as the Telmarines. They drove the Old Narnians into hiding and there arises the conflict of whether the Telmarines and the Old Narnians can co-exist peacefully. This conflict was allegedly inspired by William the Conqueror’s Norman invasion of England, along with the issue of the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans cohabitating under his rule.

19. Name Origins

Narnia got its name from the town of Narnis, in Italy. Aslan, meanwhile, comes from the Turkish word for ‘lion.’

18. How Touching!

The recurring character of Lucy Pevensie was named after and based on the goddaughter of C.S. Lewis, Lucy Barfield. Lewis also dedicated the first book to her, in a message which read “Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it".

17. It’s All Greek to Me

In the novel The Horse and His Boy , two of the main characters are twins named Cor and Corin. Cor is associated with horses, while Corin is well-known for his affiliation with boxing. These twins are a clear reference to the mythological heroes Castor and Polydeuces—also known as Pollux to the Romans. These two twins were eventually honored by the gods by becoming constellations in the sky as Gemini.

16. The Power of Music

Tolkien fans who have read The Magician’s Nephew  might have noticed that both C.S. Lewis and Tolkien’s worlds of Narnia and Middle-Earth, respectively, are created through music. In the case of Narnia, Aslan’s singing and breath bring forth life, while in Tolkien’s case, it is the work of Eru Ilúvatar and the Ainur who create the world from out of the Void. Given that the two of them were contemporaries, it’s not completely out of line to believe that one might have been influenced by the other. As to who influenced who, we’ll leave that up to the fanbases to argue about.

15. Santa is Bad?

Criticism has been leveled towards the books, particularly The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , for its assumption that it’s okay for children to fight in wars as long as they are boys. In one of the more bizarre scenes of the book—and that’s saying something—Peter, Susan, and Lucy are visited by Father Christmas, who provides them with gifts to help them on their journey. While all three are given arms, Father Christmas specifically warns Lucy and Susan not to get caught up in the fighting because “Battles are ugly when women fight". Good to know that Santa’s fine with underage boys taking part in conflict!

14. The Personal is Always Painful

Perhaps because this was such a close parallel to his personal life, it seems to have taken C.S. Lewis a longer time to write The Magician’s Nephew than any of the other books. Lewis began writing it in 1949 but gave up after 26 pages and didn’t resume work until two years later, finally releasing the book in 1955.

13. This Time Travel is Getting Confusing…

When he began writing the books, C.S. Lewis didn’t necessarily have an exact order in mind. Therefore, the chronological order of the books is contested among tough fans to this day.

12. Minor Change

When it comes to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , there are actually two distinct differences between the British version and the American version of the books, done by C.S. Lewis himself when he was reviewing the American edition. The first change was a brief description of a character, Eustace, as “far too stupid to make anything up himself”. Lewis changed the line to being “quite incapable” rather than “far too stupid”. Speculation on the change ranges from Lewis having grown fonder of the character, Lewis being worried that he went too far calling a child stupid, or that Eustace wasn’t stupid, and it was an inaccurate description. Either way, probably for the best that he made that correction.

11. Major Change

The second, bigger change was in regard to the Dark Island, which the protagonists visit to rescue one of the lost lords of Narnia. In the original version, Lewis wrote their departure in a way that it seemed the Dark Island no longer existed once they left. In the American version, he rewrote the scene to leave the Dark Island existing as a cautionary warning to others, while also emphasizing the success of the protagonists for leaving it.

10. Translation Issues?

Speaking of changes in the American and British versions of a book, there are a few minor changes in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  as well. In the American edition of the book, the White Witch’s chief of authorities is named Fenris Ulf rather than Maugrim, and instead of “the fire-stones of the Secret Hill,” they used “the trunk of the World Ash Tree". Seems rather random to make those changes, but oh well.

9. Awkward…

In The Last Battle , the villains include a race of people known as the Calormenes. These people, described as being dark-skinned slave-traders wearing turbans, have come under fire for being color coded villains in a book series written by a white author and nearly always featuring white protagonists.

8. There’s a Case to Be Made

Despite these criticisms, some have pointed to the novel The Horse and His Boy for a portrayal of two Calormenes who are heroic characters in that story. However, there is a counter-argument which states that these characters are clearly painted as exceptions to the rule within the book compared to the rest of the Calormenes. It’s the problem that the fantasy genre has had for quite some time, whether we’re talking about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, or even George R.R. Martin.

7. Copy rights!

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  bears a few similarities to an earlier fairy tale called The Snow Queen by legendary fairy tale author Hans Christian Anderson. Lewis’ antagonist in his book, the White Witch, has serious parallels with the Snow Queen, Anderson’s antagonist in his own story. Both women dress all in white, both take a boy away on a sled, and both use their magic to corrupt their captives so that they turn on their loved ones.

6. Time’s Arrow Marches On

One element which has always marked the Narnia  books is the way it deals with parallel timelines. A whole lifetime could be spent in Narnia, while mere minutes would pass by in our world. Based on the timelines in Prince Caspian , a year in our world equals to about 1,300 years in Narnia!

5. Atom Explosivevs. Atlantis

Before Narnia was created in The Magician’s Nephew , it’s revealed that there was a previous world called Charn which was corrupted and ultimately destroyed when one of the characters spoke the Deplorable Word, which was dangerous due to its incredibly destructive power. Those who have researched and studied the Narnia books and Lewis’ background are divided what he’s specifically referencing with that storyline. While some have argued that the Deplorable Word is a metaphor for the atom explosive —which would definitely have been on everyone’s mind after they were used in Japan during the conflict —others maintain that Lewis’ influence was the myth of Atlantis. For what it’s worth, this myth also inspired Tolkien when he created the island of Númenor.

4. Why Weren’t We Invited??!

While C.S. Lewis was working on this series, a colleague of his was working on his own fantasy books. That colleague was none other than J.R.R. Tolkien, and the books he was working on were The Lord of the Rings ! The two authors would meet every Monday morning to discuss writing, and they were joined by others as time passed. Eventually, no fewer than 19 men were meeting up to share their work, and they moved the weekly meetings to Thursday night.

3. Unofficial Autobiography

Professor Digory Kirke, the protagonist of The Magician’s Nephew and a supporting character in some of the other books, is based on C.S. Lewis himself. Both the author and his protagonist “were children in the early 1900s, both wanted a pony, and both were faced with the demise of their mothers in childhood". Both were also children in England while their fathers were abroad, both were better with literature than mathematics, to their detriment, and of course, both of them became professors who took in children during the Second World W.

2. You Again?

Although she is supposedly ended by Aslan at the end of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , the White Witch is said to have returned to life. While it hasn’t been confirmed, the villainous Lady of the Green Kirtle in The Silver Chair bears a striking resemblance to the White Witch, leading some to suggest that the two women are the same.

1. Wait—Narnia Goes Too Far?

Despite the obvious Christian allegories in the series—especially when the lion Aslan embarks on a personal sacrifice and resurrection in the middle of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe —the Narnia  books were banned in a large number of Christian schools. This was because, for all of the Christian elements in the series, C.S. Lewis also inserted some pagan references, which was for some school libraries apparently too much to tolerate.

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