Book Talks: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

 

It’s been a few months since I read The Magician’s Nephew (click here to view the blog post), but my appetite for Narnia has not deteriorated.  Like Edmond’s desire for more enchanted Turkish Delight I want to read this series all the way through.  Each book has been full of inspiration from folk tales, Christian teachings, and mythology.  I am really enjoying the way Lewis is pulling them all together into one story, and one new land.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is no exception.  It’s packed with secular and non secular material which keeps the book interesting and inventive.  The children (Peter, Susan, Edmond, & Lucy) have been sent away to the country during air raids and get placed with a quirky professor who lives in a huge house with numerous rooms.  One of which contains the wardrobe to Narnia.

Travel to another world and let your imagination explode with this book.  If you’ve seen any of the movies you’ll have a good sense about what this world would look like, but I promise the book is better.  There are little nuances that you might miss in the movies, such as the separation of the words War Drobe, and Spare Oom.  To the creatures of Narnia these are just sounds, but to us the reader we see the comical aspect of Mr. Tumnus trying to discover where Lucy comes from.

There are talks of The Silver Chair (the penultimate book in the series) being made into another movie installment of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. Personally, I have chosen to read the series in the order that events happen in Narnia rather than in the order the author wrote the books.  After some light research I think C.S. Lewis wouldn’t mind a bit.  So grab the series before the next movie comes out and see what you think of Hollywood’s interpretation of this classic children’s book series.