Stone Table

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis utilizes a myriad of components, or symbols, to create an allegory of Christianity. These components suggest Lewis was crafting this story to convey Christian concepts. Examples of religious symbolism include Aslan, the stone table, the beavers underlying characteristics, the children’s “title”, and even the White Witch. Aslan is a character who strongly resembles Jesus Christ. Within the first few chapters, the fawn and the beavers speak of Aslan as though he holds power and authority over the kingdom. For example, as the children are eating dinner with the beavers, they discuss who Aslan is. Mr Beaver explains, “Why don’t you know? He’s the King. He’s the Lord of the whole wood, but not often here, you understand…. But the word has reached us that he has come back,” (Lewis 74). The beavers imply that other Narnians have faith in Aslan, knowing he will take action in his own timing to overcome the evil in their world. This is explained in chapter eight, “wrong will be right when Aslan comes in sight…” (Lewis 74). As Christ is the center of Christianity, Aslan is implied as the center of Narnia. In chapter fourteen, Aslan offers to sacrifice himself on the stone table in the place of Edmund, even though Aslan had done nothing wrong to deserve this punishment.…

One Perception Check Later A light rain comes to a stop as I walk up the slick driveway of my friend Aaron’s house. I push on the white, waterlogged, wooden fence gate to the backyard and stand just thirty feet from the open garage door. The backyard consists of two halves: the concrete path with a hutch housing rabbits and a grass yard with a brown, stone fire pit. A constant air of music plays from the wind chimes that hang from a vine-covered terrace separating the two areas. We take the…

The man just stumbled away, and left us alone in the cave. He looked at me before leaving before he disappeared. The boy helped me up as my feet failed me. The curse wore off somewhat, but I still couldn’t walk without his help, having caught the full of it. I looked at the books and saw several with one word in the title. “sacrifice”, I read, as my eyes were drawn to the table with the statue. The statue on the table wasn’t a statue. It was an immortal, a child of the Court. He had sacrificed…

wife felt compassion for the fatherless lad and his widowed mother. She insisted she needed help with the household chores when he sailed. He hadn’t been on a ship for almost a year. Peta cried when he approached the topic of letting the lad go. He gave in to her and Karmel stayed. “Bah!” Ashulti groaned, throwing the empty cup across the room. Karmel took a step back, the tray of bread and cheese tipping. “Just leave it on the table.” Ashulti barked. The boy moved to the basket of…

interest." I replied, stepping down the stairs with his, escort. Light shone through the rippled glass - Miss Rosa Quindale had a charitable favoring to Church-like decors - and Isaac, the gentleman he is, unhook his arm from mine, and press his palm against the door, and the door opened without a creak. "Thank you, Isaac." "Quite the pleasure, Evie." He replies. I couldn't help but notice a few strands of his hair dipped in ash, it was quite noticeable, really. His hazel hair was…

If you were to go to my house and you went over to my study area you would see a have a kind of desk, a chair, and a lamp. The desk actually contains a sewing machine in the inside that used to belong to my mother. God rest her soul. Main reason I use this as a desk it that it is one of the few places in my house where I have a flat surface that is not cluttered with odds and ends. Also this desk is in a centrally located place in the dining room right next to the dining table. The dining room…

being more dominant. Onyx Properties Onyx comes in a variety of colors like red, yellow or blue. It falls under the category of quartz stones, and has a hardness of between 6 and 7 on the Mohs scale. Most of the black onyx seen in jewelry doesn't have the white stripe, so some people are not even aware that black onyx has another color to it unless it's been used for a cameo. Jewelry Choices and History of Black Onyx Throughout…

The Ruthwell cross is a stone, Anglo-Saxon monument which breaks down and disrupts several different societal and culturally defined binaries and is an example of how one object can exist as multiple things/ideas at once. This essay will focus on the disruption of the narrative of past and present, human and non-human, male and female, and wood and stone. Many different aspects and elements of the cross come into play when doing a diffractive reading of the Ruthwell cross. The cross was created…

The Control of Tradition Embedded in Culture It is an obvious fact that modern America is the superior culture. But in this short story by Shirley Jackson, written in 1948, will provoke a common patriot of this nation to think twice. At first glance the short story “The Lottery” can be read as a brute tale of a barbaric tradition, one that sacrifices a member of the community once a year by stoning them to a slow death. The sacrifice is chosen through two rounds of picking a slip of paper…

Chapter One They'd always maintained the Balance. The proof was there, in black and white, in tomes long forgotten and archived and further back, etched onto steel discs and chiseled into stone. The Balance and the Blood went hand in hand. A multitude of worlds whirled in their own cosmos, each different from the last like sparks from a fire. There were constants, though - Nod, for one. That ancient land, that other place, was the lynchpin. All souls came to Nod, in one way or another. Mr. Black…