Shasta, the main character in C.S Lewis’s The Horse and His Boy, lived a hard and unfair life. A childhood spent in slavery, a horrific trek across a desert to save a country he knows nothing about, getting chased by lions, and getting lost in foggy mountains. Where was Aslan in the midst of all this? Actually, a numerous amount of people’s faith rely on the answer to a very similar question: Where is God during troublesome times? Does He not care about you enough to save you? These are the same questions that Lewis examined and answered in his book The Horse and His Boy. Although many people view the theme as being a rise from the ashes story, that seems to be only a minor message. The overall theme is that despite hard and challenging times,
