Sacrifice In The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

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The Sacrifice is Real. What is sacrifice? Sacrifice in my mind is giving something up for the people you love and/or care about. Sacrificer can be hard. As we know in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis, sacrifice is also constant. It’s always there, always changing. In this book, there are four young children; Peter, Lucy, Susan, and Edmund. They witness sacrifice all throughout the book. From the beginning to the end of the story. The first sacrifice made in this story is when the four children end up having to go to the professor's house because of their parents. As the story inches along Lucy goes into a wardrobe to hide, she accidently finds a new world beyond her own. When she went into Narnia, she met Mr. Tumnus, a She comes back hours later (so she thought), and …show more content…
When he and lucy met up again and left the wardrobe and went back to talk to Susan and Peter, Edmund was also sacrificing the trust between his sibling. When he said the trip was unreal. In this story I think it took a few times for Edmund to understand the consequences of sacrifice
When all four of them arrived in Narnia they were all sacrificing their safety. They didn’t know what was ahead of them. They didn’t bring any food or water to drink or eat, they followed a robin who they did not know, and they talked to a beaver which could have been on the witches side. They didn’t know many things when it came to Narnia and the new world. They were sacrificing everything.
Meeting Aslan was also a huge sacrifice. They were meeting a lion of all things, for the first time and only going off what the beavers said to them. Should they have trusted the beaver in the first place, I don’t know. They could have been set up to be eaten by Aslan, no one really knew. Meeting Aslan could have been a disaster. And believing what he was saying was also a big

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