The Chronicles of Narnia

1. The Chronicles of Narnia By Robert, Christina, and Ryan

2. About C.S Lewis • CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898–1963) was one of the the most influential Christian writers of his day. • His contributions include literary criticism, children's literature, fantasy literature, and popular theology. • His most distinguished and popular Hi Taylor Ross accomplishments include The Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet, The Four Loves, The Screwtape Letters, and Mere Christianity. • C. S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898, to Albert J. Lewis and Florence Augusta Hamilton Lewis. • Lewis had one brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis (1895–1973). Lewis's mother died of cancer in 1908 when he was just nine years old.

3. In 1910, Lewis became a boarding student at Campbell College in Belfast. • He withdrew one year later. In 1913, Lewis enrolled at Malvern College where he remained for one year. • From Malvern, he went into private tutoring under William T. Kirkpatrick, who had also been his father's tutor. • Lewis went on to receive a scholarship to University College, Oxford, in 1916. after the outbreak of WWI, he enlisted in the British Army in 1917. • On May 20, 1925, Lewis was appointed Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University, where he served for twenty-nine years until 1954. • C. S. Lewis died at his home on November 22, 1963. His grave is in the yard of Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry, Oxford.

4. Characters • Aslan-the king lord of the whole wood, and son of the emperor across the sea. Aslan is the lion the great lion he comes and goes as he pleases; he comes to overthrow the witch and save Narnia. he appears in all seven books. symbolically god • Digory Kirke-Digory was there at the very beginning of Narnia’s creation he is also the old uncle in the lion the witch and the wardrobe. Him and Polly found the which and took her to Narnia after she caused chaos in their world. • Polly Plummer- Polly is the first person to leave our world. She and Digory take part in the very beginning in the Magician’s Nephew. • Jadis- the last queen of Charn, which she herself destroyed, Jadis survives with Digory and Polly in the Magician’s Nephew and has taken over the land as the white witch in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Completely evil, she is also very dangerous. • Uncle Andrew- Mister Andrew Ketterley thinks he is a magician, but like all who meddle with magic, he doesn’t really know what he’s doing. The results are dire in The Magician’s Nephew.

5. THE PEVENSIES • Peter- King Peter the Magnificent, the high king of Narnia. He and his three other siblings came to Narnia through the wardrobe. He slayed the White Witch. • Susan- Queen Susan the Gentle, the high queen. • Edmond- King Edmond the Just. • Lucy- Queen Lucy the Valiant. The four Pevensies, brothers and sisters, visited Narnia at the time of the winter rule of the White Witch. They remained there for many Narnian years and established the Golden Age of Narnia. Peter is the eldest, followed by Susan, then Edmond and Susan.

6. Shasta-There is a mystery about this adopted son of a Calormene fishermen. He is not what he seems as he himself discovers in The Horse and His Boy that he is the heir to Archenland. • Bree- (Talkin’Horse) This great warhorse is also unusual. He was kidnapped as a foal from the forests of Narnia and sold as a slave horse in Calormene, a country across Archenland and far to the south of Narnia. His adventure begins when he tried to escape in The Horse and His Boy. • Aravis- Aravis is a Tarkheena, a Calormene noblewoman, but even so she has many good points; they come into play in The Horse and His Boy. • Hwin- (Talkin’ Horse) Hwin is a good natured, sensible horse. Another slave taken from Narnia she and Aravis become friends in The Horse and His Boy and meet up with Shasta and Bree.

7. The Magician’s Nephew • The Magician's Nephew is a fantasy novel for children written by C. S. Lewis. It was the sixth book published in his The Chronicles of Narnia series, but is the first in the chronology of the Narnia novels' fictional universe. Thus it is an early example of a prequel. • The novel is set in London in the early 1900s. The main characters are two pre-adolescent children, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, Digory being the younger Professor Kirke from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. • The pair have adventures after being transported to other worlds by the experiments of Digory's Uncle Andrew. (the transporting rings that bring them to the wood between worlds) In the wood they can choose many worlds to visit. • It features the genesis of Narnia, and the introduction of the Evil queen Jadis, antagonist of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe into the newly created Narnia. • begun shortly after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, it took Lewis nearly six years to complete, and includes a number of autobiographical elements from Lewis's own life. • It explores a number of themes with general moral and Christian implications including atonement, original sin, temptation and the order of nature. • the kids take the queen from Charn a dead world which she destroyed, to their world where she causes havoc, then to Narnia where they all witness its genesis. • the queen is seen as evil, Kirke gets an apple of life and returns home to cure his mothers fatal sickness. • after his mother eats the apple and gets well Kirkeburries the rings and plants the core which grows into a copy of the tree of life in Narnia. • this tree eventually falls and is turned into the wardrobe. • Kirke’s mothers situation relates to C.S lewis’s mothers situation when she was ill

8. The lion, The which, and The Wardrobe • Book can be considered Mainly Christian • Aslan, Son of the King of the World (( Jesus )) • Aslans Father: Rules from across the sea (( God )) • White Witch: There since the beginning of Narnia (( Original Evil )) • Pevensieves: Typical Humans (( Where we stand )) • During World War 2  • Evacuated During the Blitz • Lives with Professor Diggory Kirk  • Amidst the Boredom, hide and go seek is initiated a few times a day • The four siblings are also told not to cause too much trouble when guests come to see the mansion • One day, Lucy wanders into a room with nothing but a wardrobe, tries to hide in it, and ends up in Narnia.

9. Lucy is greeted by a Faun there, and they have Tea together. He reveals to her the history of where she is, how Narnia never saw Christmas, but was always winter, and how that was the fault of the White Witch, the faux queen of Narnia. He also tells her he’s supposed to kidnap her, but repents and returns her to the portal to home. • Upon return, no one has noticed her long disappearance, and they tell her the time hasn’t changed but a few minutes. They check the wardrobe, to find it as nothing but a normal wardrobe. • Later that night, Lucy sneaks out to go to Narnia once again, and this time, Edmund follows after, planning on taunting and teasing her for playing in imaginary lands. He however, loses Lucy, who’s far ahead, and ends up in Narnia alone, only to be greeted by the White Witch. Thinking the White Witch to be a good person, he acts personably, tells her about how he got there, and how Lucy had said she met with the Faun, Tumnus. • He’s fed Turkish Delight, and then told to bring the rest of his brothers and sisters to her palace, so that they can all meet, and he could be crowned prince. • She leaves, and Edmund runs into Lucy, they both talk, and then leave for home. Upon arriving home, Edmund acts as if it never happened, and Lucy truly was pretending. Lucy is heartbroken, and the two older siblings go to talk to the professor. The professor tells them by way of logic that this place must exist, and all points of logic lead to that.

10. The next day they find out it does exist. While playing Hide and go Seek, All four stumble into Narnia trying to not get caught by the guests who have just arrived • From there they stumble into a situation in which a pair of beavers search for, and find them, bringing them back to their rather small den. It’s explained that the four are needed to overthrow the Witch, and that Aslan, the king from across the sea, has awakened and is on the move to meet them. By this time, Edmund is gone, headed to the White Witches palace, to tell her that they’ve arrived. The other three take flight, fleeing for the meeting site. They barely make it there alive, but they are greeted by a camp full of soldiers, and Aslan himself. • Edmund is used as a Hostage, and his life is required as a Traitor, and the White Witch shows up to tell the Lion that. In Edmunds stead, the Lion takes the penalty. The White Witch did not know however, that due to old magic, Aslan would be revived. Next day, he is revived, and the final battle for Narnia starts. In the end, only Aslan can kill the White Witch, and the kids are crowned as the Kings and Queens of Narnia. • Years later, the now adults, hunt for the legendary white stag, who leads them back into current day London, once again kids. They all say that they will return another day, foreshadowing a sequel.

11. Summery • Shasta lives by the Calorman Sea with his abusive fisherman father, until a solider visits his home one night. While he is there Shasta overhears his the fisherman telling the solider that Shasta is not his son and that he had in fact found him as a baby in a boat that had washed up onto shore. At this Shasta decides to run away to the North and away from the abusive fisherman, however, as he is leaving Shasta comes upon the soldier's horse and finds out that the horse is in fact a talking horse from Narnia that had been kidnapped named Bree. So they decide to runaway together. Along their journey, however, they come across Aravis and Hwin. A Tarkeena and a talking mare from Narnia. As a Tarkeena, Aravis was to be married to an old advisor at the Calorman court and so she set off with Hwin to runaway to Narnia as well.

12. Their journey goes smoothly until they reach Tashbaan and they get separated. Shasta gets mistaken for the Archenland prince Corin, and overhears a quick pathway into Narnia. He later escapes out a window. Meanwhile Aravis meets an acquaintance of hers, and ends up sneaking around the castle of the Tashbaan Court and overhearing the Tashbaanean Prince’s plan to attack Archenland and then Narnia to the North. Once the group meet up once again they decide to reach Archenland before the prince and warn the king of Archenland. • Their journey continues as they travel over the desert, and seemingly come into many close calls with lions in which one Aravis is badly injured. As they reach Archenland, however the group stops at a hermits house as Shasta goes ahead to warn the king. Along the way he meets Aslan who admits to being the lion that they kept coming across who had inadvertently been leading them along the whole time.

13. Shasta makes it to Archenland in time and warns the king, as well as meeting with Prince Corin whom he had been mistaken for and bears a striking resemblance to himself. The battle is upon them then in which Archenland defeats the Tashbaanean prince. • In the end, however, we find that Shasta is really the missing prince of Archenland, Prince Cor and grows up to become king and ends up marrying Aravis. Whereas Bree and Hwin go on to live as free horses in Narnia.

14. The theme of this story is friendship, as Shasta the main character of the story is all alone in the beginning and at the end has many loyal friends. Also there is the element of ‘from rags to riches’ here as Shasta goes from being a poor fisherman’s son to a prince. • Then as this is a Christian series, the part where Shasta is found in a boat washed up on shore is a literary allusion to the Bible where Moses is found washed up onto the shore though in this case the boys status is reversed as Moses went from rags to riches and Shasta went from riches to rags. Also Aslan is symbolic for God, as he is in every book of this series.

15. Opinions • Christina - On The Horse and His Boy- The book was easy to read and was a good storyline. The plot was consistent and the characters were easy to relate to. What I did not like however was the journey across the desert because it seemed rushed and not as arduous as it should have been. -Favorite Character- Shasta- His name is cool and even though he is looked upon as being lowly because he had used to be a fisherman’s son he rises above that and in the end we find that he is actually a prince. -Favorite Scene- When Shasta is mistaken for Prince Corin in Tashbaan.

16. Robert - the magicians nephew was very easy to read and took hardly no time at all I found the book very enjoyable it answered a lot of the how and why questions asked about The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. the characters were well designed and likable with a good story line and plot. • my favorite character would have to have been Digory because his personality seemed to push the story along. • favorite scene when Digory first appears in the wood between worlds and almost loses himself.

17. Ryan - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe was a very interesting book to read I found it easy to read but still very entertaining. It had a good story line that was easy to follow and a plot full of twists. • my favorite character was The White Witch. The White Witch is the original sin and temptation in Narnia, and is also the opposing power to Aslans. • my favorite scene was the battle between the Witches army and Aslans.

18. Work division • Robert – Magician’s Nephew -PowerPoint -Animations - Power Notes • Christina - The Horse and His Boy -Grammar and Spelling -Moral Support - Power Notes • Ryan - The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe -Being Ginger