The Martian Chronicles

Settings England and Telmar Despite there being many gateways between Earth and Narnia (Prince Caspian, 217), most of the visitors throughout the Chronicles come from one place-England. The obvious exception is the Telmarines, who were pirates on Earth but entered Narnia through one of the last “chinks and chasms between worlds” (Prince Caspian, 217). The English and Telmarines mirror the Jews and Gentiles of the Bible; while there may be remnants of either people in the “nethermost parts of the…

Published in the early 1950s, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, took 7 years to get off the presses to the public, according to “The Parallel World of Narnia” by Chad Walsh, and became one of Lewis’s best-sellers (2005). In this story four siblings, stumble upon The Wardrobe in their guardians room, which leads them into a secret mystical world, filled with mystical beings and magic, no one knows about. The Witch has taken over the world and has left it cold for many years,…

Jerusalem. After Aslan’s death, the stone table cracks in half (Friskney, 65), just as when Jesus died “the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The Earth shook, the rocks split” (NIV Bible, Matthew 27:51). In both The Chronicles of Narnia and The Bible, the destruction of these sacred artifacts represent that the barrier between God and man is destroyed. In Narnia, the inhabitants there no longer have to follow the laws of Deep Magic, because Aslan has overcome those…

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by the Carnegie Medal winner, C.S. Lewis, is set in a magical land named Narnia. Multiple biblical elements can be found in this story which can directly relate to the death and resurrection of Jesus, as well as the sinful nature of man after the fall. This book was originally published in 1950, and its main target audience was children; however, people of all ages tend to enjoy it because of its deeper meaning. The story of Christianity is symbol throughout…

In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García-Márquez, Márquez uses structure and magical realism to make Santiago’s death inevitable, highlighting the idea that fate is inescapable, and that it outweighs ideals such as truth or justice. In part one, the reader learns that the novel is written from what seems to be the perspective of an old friend of Santiago’s who is piecing together the events leading up to Santiago’s death, 27 years after Santiago has died. The narrator puts…

C.S. Lewis: “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” (“C.S.Lewis.” BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, 2016. 26 February 2016. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html). This is said by C.S. Lewis who dared to write about subjects writers at the time few dared to write about. Being raised in a Christian…

In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the action begins when Lewis’s quote “And then Lucy saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away from where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold was falling on her” (Lewis 7). The four young English siblings referred to as “The Pevensies” moved to a friend’s house in the country due to WWII. The sibling’s parents wanted them unharmed during the war. The four siblings traveled to…

Myth: The Chronicles of Narnia is built around this concept of myth. As most of us read long ago in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the four children explore their new home and grope their way through a magical wardrobe into the cold, wintery world of Narnia. Here -- as in the ancient myths that had captivated C. S. Lewis' heart -- animals talk, witches bewitch, curses turn flesh into stone, and the veil between physical reality and spiritual fantasies fade away. Myth and truth merge…

Rosetta Morgan THe Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe By: C.S Lewis Genre: Fantasy SPOILERS Plot Summary: The books starts out with the four Pevensie children moving into their professor’s house. The kids are exploring when they come across a room with a wardrobe in it. Lucy’s siblings don’t think much of it, but Lucy goes to explores the wardrobe. When she first goes in it’s only coats but as she moves in farther she finds that it’s no longer coats but trees. She walks and see a lamppost. While…

In this fantasy story, Isle of the Lost by Melissa De La Cruz, there are 4 friends that have to satisfy their parents in different ways but they have one thing in common which is the Dragon’s Eye. That might sound weird but it is really powerful. The 4 friends are villains from all the fairytales. For example, Mal, daughter of Maleficent, Evie, daughter of Evil Queen , Jay, son of Jafar and last but not least Carlos, son of Cruella De Vil. All these are parents of villains of what you might have…