Clive Staples Lewis (C.S. Lewis) was world renowned speaker, author, and christian theologian. C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1898. He was not born in the healthiest city. There was inadequate sewer system, shortage of food, and an overcrowded center. There was several types of diseases, such as yellow fever and tuberculosis that cut an average life expectancy in half at the time of his birth. At a young age C.S Lewis announced himself as “Jacksie” and refused to answer to any other. He was known as Jack by his close friends. He was raised in a healthy home, with two loving parents. His parents were “bookish” and clear. His dad was a lawyer and his mom was a mathematician. Growing up, C.S. Leiw was surrounded by books
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He had a brother named Warren who was three years younger than him. Both C.S. Lewis and his brother were born with a signal joint in their thumb, but that didn’t prevent C.S. Lewis from becoming a writer. C.S. Lewis was unteachable when he was young and as a result the forced himself to write. Between the ages of six and ten, he was almost living entirely in his imagination. He wrote about fictitious characters like “dressed animals” and created a world of animal land, which paved way to his famous children stories of the Chronicles of Narnia. At a young age, C.S. Lewis turned bitter toward religion and God, at the ineffectiveness of his prayers to prevent his mom’s death at age ten. His feelings of God’s betrayal increased as he was sent to boarding school. He hated the school partial because he discovered the religious exercises to be dull and and foney. C.S. Lewis had always wanted to be a great poet since he was fifteen years …show more content…
Lewis rose to fame in England as the BBC broadcasting asked him to speak about faith during World War II. Soon this religious programing became popular and paved way to one of his best-selling book Mere Christianity. By the 1950s, C.S. Lewis became a famous and one of the most popular spokesman for Christianity in the world. He spend most of his life as bachelor, but he has a short marriage with Helen Joy Davidman, who was a poet and a novelist from New York. Joy was converted from Judaism to Christianity, mostly because of her motivation by his work. They got married on Christmas Eve of 1956, in light of Davidman’s bone cancer. The two were married for a short three years, before the cancer took Joy’s life in 1960. In the midst of unbearable pain and loss, C.S. Lewis wrote A Grief Observed in 1961. In this book he struggles with maining with one’s faith at a time of great loss. He died on November 22, 1963, just before his 65th
He had a brother named Warren who was three years younger than him. Both C.S. Lewis and his brother were born with a signal joint in their thumb, but that didn’t prevent C.S. Lewis from becoming a writer. C.S. Lewis was unteachable when he was young and as a result the forced himself to write. Between the ages of six and ten, he was almost living entirely in his imagination. He wrote about fictitious characters like “dressed animals” and created a world of animal land, which paved way to his famous children stories of the Chronicles of Narnia. At a young age, C.S. Lewis turned bitter toward religion and God, at the ineffectiveness of his prayers to prevent his mom’s death at age ten. His feelings of God’s betrayal increased as he was sent to boarding school. He hated the school partial because he discovered the religious exercises to be dull and and foney. C.S. Lewis had always wanted to be a great poet since he was fifteen years …show more content…
Lewis rose to fame in England as the BBC broadcasting asked him to speak about faith during World War II. Soon this religious programing became popular and paved way to one of his best-selling book Mere Christianity. By the 1950s, C.S. Lewis became a famous and one of the most popular spokesman for Christianity in the world. He spend most of his life as bachelor, but he has a short marriage with Helen Joy Davidman, who was a poet and a novelist from New York. Joy was converted from Judaism to Christianity, mostly because of her motivation by his work. They got married on Christmas Eve of 1956, in light of Davidman’s bone cancer. The two were married for a short three years, before the cancer took Joy’s life in 1960. In the midst of unbearable pain and loss, C.S. Lewis wrote A Grief Observed in 1961. In this book he struggles with maining with one’s faith at a time of great loss. He died on November 22, 1963, just before his 65th