The Magician's Nephew

The Magician’s Nephew Learning lessons is a like reaching maturity. You don’t just suddenly become more wealthy, or happier, but you are able to understand the world around you better, and are at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing a change in your life to better understand yourself. In the book The Magician’s Nephew, the author, C.S. Lewis, writes a story on two neighborhood children who become friends during a summer in London in the late 1800s. The two children, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, were on a challenging mission after being hurled into another world called Charn, and have awoken Queen Jadis (a former ruler of Charn). In an attempt to escape the evil sorceress who tries to subject them, the children accidently bring Jadis back to London and unfortunately, as Digory and Polly plan to force her back into Charn, they enter a world which has not yet formed bringing along a cab-driver, his horse and Uncle Andrew. This fabric of new land will be known as Narnia and they will soon witness a lion named Aslan to create this world. In The Magician’s Nephew, the main character Digory matures from chapter to chapter. There are various complex interaction in The Magician’s Nephew, and Digory Kirke being the main character matures and changes in the story. Some of those…

The Magician’s Nephew is a high fantasy and adventure novel composed by C. S. Lewis. In chronological order, it is the first book of "The Chronicles of Narnia" series. The Magician’s Nephew tells the tale of the formation of Narnia and how malevolence was brought into this enchanted land. Seen through the eyes of two kids, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, the story weaves through a few distinct universes and analyzes the differences between good and evil hearts. The magical story begins with two…

Lewis uses this story’s form as a basis for his sixth book, The Magician's Nephew. The story of the Garden of Eden begins with Adam and Eve being created in God’s garden with an endless supply of food and water. The only rule in the garden was not to eat the fruit off of one particular tree: the forbidden apple tree. In The Magician's Nephew the main character, Digory, is instructed by Aslan to go to his Garden and pick an apple off the tree (Brennan). As Digory makes his way to the tree he…

at the similarities between the Narnian characters’ view of Aslan and humankind 's view of God, is important---it will give insight into how humans might interact or feel about God. Throughout The Chronicles of Narnia series there are several prominent ways in which creatures from Narnia are described to view Aslan. Three of these are: the viewpoint of the characters living either neutrally or in support of Aslan, the viewpoint of characters living in opposition to Aslan, and the viewpoint of…

C.S. Lewis was an Irish writer. Born in Belfast in 1898, and living in County Down until the age of nine, as a young child, Lewis probably heard many of the old Irish Legends and mythological stories that most Irish children would learn, even to this day. This essay seeks to find evidence of the influence these stories had on Lewis’s work in later life, especially in ‘The Chronicles of ‘Narnia’. It focuses mainly on ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ and ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. It examines…

“The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being”. Throughout the novels Crispin the Cross of the Lead and The Magician’s Nephew, the main characters encounter what one might call a quest. Here our heroes go on an adventure seeking something that he or she desires. Throughout stories, we learn with the narrator as they develop and look inwardly upon themselves. Although Crispin and Digory and Polly’s…

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Magician’s Nephew and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis and the first two Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling have a multitude of complex characters for and against the quest’s in their texts. Northrop Frye’s “The Mythos of Summer: Romance.” outlines how he believes what a character’s traits are based on their position on the quest. Frye claims that, “Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it they are idealized…

In the The Magician 's Nephew by C.S. Lewis Digory and Polly travel to and through many world’s, ending up in the recently created Narnia. They by accident have unleashed a evil upon Narnia— an evil that comes back in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe— Jadis. They have to stop Jadis from terrorizing Narnia creating a battle between good and evil in this brand new world. The theme of good verses evil comes up again in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe against the same evil and then again in…

Chronicles of Narnia? Perhaps not. At the very least, however, his profound belief in Christianity motivated his compelling story. Narnia is all the better off for it.  Works Cited Bruner, Kurt, and Ware, Jim. “Finding God in the Land of Narnia.” SaltRiver, 2005. Lewis, Clive Staples. “It All Began with a Picture.” Radio Times, 15 July 1960, p. 53. ---. Mere Christianity. Deckle Edge, 2015. ---. Prince Caspian. Scholastic, 2006. ---. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the…

Be Careful What You Wish For "All get what they want in the end. They do not always like it." (Excerpt from, The Magician's Nephew) A common motif in literature is the granting of three wishes, usually resulting negatively and putting the main character in a worse position than they started off in, usually causing them to regret the decisions they made in the first place. Two examples showing this common motif include “The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish,” by Joan Aiken.…