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Summary: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Review: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
By C.S. Lewis This story is mainly about four children, their names are Peter the oldest, Susan next in line, Edmund the Snob and Lucy the youngest. They are sent to the professor's house because where they live there was going to be a war with air raids. It was one rainy day and three of the children were playing hide-and-seek, but Lucy didn't want to play because she wanted to discover the big house. She went inside a room with a wardrobe she went inside to see what was inside as she went farther inside the drobe she felt something cold under her feet, it was snow. She met a faun next to a light post. The faun invited her to drink some tea and eat some cookies. They started talking for hours. The faun told her that she was in Narnia, he told her about an evil queen who wanted to take Aslan's thorn. "It is always gloomy and snowy; the sun never came out behind the clouds. Lucy came back out of the wardrobe and told her brothers and sisters about the faun, Narnia and how long she has been gone for hours. They said she has only been gone for a couple of minutes. Then Edmund goes inside the wardrobe to find out for himself and to seek the truth about what Lucy said is true. I think you should find out what happens next. I would recommend this book for people who are looking for some adventure in their life, people that are going through some problem in their life this book will make you forget. I'm going to give this book five stars because it is very interesting and the author is very creative. This book is good for young children and adults. By Hannah ...
Room 18 # 12
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Summary: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Review: \Student Review Yvette H./ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is a fantasy by C. S. Lewis. The book is about kids who go in a magic wardrobe which takes them to another world called Narnia. Lucy was the first to discover Narnia then Edmund said he and Lucy were playing a game. Eventually Susan and Peter found about Narnia when all the kids were hiding in the wardrobe from grownups. Then Susan and Peter apologize to Lucy for not believing her.
How ever there was a problem Edmund was helping the evil witch for all the Turkish delights he wants. So she had to get Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter be fore Aslan did but if you want to find out what happens next you'll have to read or watch the fantasy The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
If you like fantasy you would like the other six Chronicles of Narnia books. The author C. S. Lewis a fantasy writer who fills you up with suspense. I would recommend this book to any one who likes to read fantasy. I give the book and movie five stars.
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Summary: Still don't like it, now I know why
Review: I remember reading this book for school and being very excited about reading a classic. I also remember being very disappointed in it, though I probably couldn't have said why. Remembering this, I decided to try it again now that I'm older. And I still don't like it. The characters were one dimensional, you don't get to know them at all. It seems to be written by someone who thinks children are innocent little idiots who will be fascinated by anything with talking animals. There was also far more Christian allegory than I ever realized the first time I read it, not a bad thing necessarily, but it wasn't all that skillfully done. The main problem I had with it was that I cannot love a book without loving the characters, and these left me cold. It has none of the inventiveness of, for instance, the NIMH books, and made me wonder why CS Lewis ever tried writing for children when he is so ill-suited, though there are hundreds of reviewers who would disagree.
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Summary: Into the Wardrobe..............and Narnia!!!
Review: This book is the greatest !!!!!!!!!!!!!The book may not hold enough excitment for you but if so, get the cassette.This awsome book is about three kids in the mystical country of Narnia where an evil witch has cast a spell where it's ALWAYS winter and never Christmas and how Aslan,the lion freed Narnia from it. Get this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Travel Through the Wardrobe
Review: "Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked back over her shoulder and there, between the dark tree-trunks, she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out. (She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.) It seemed to be still daylight there. "I can always get back if anything goes wrong," thought Lucy. She began to walk forward, crunch-crunch over the snow and through the wood toward the other snow and through the wood toward the light. In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamp-post. As she stood looking at it, wondering why there was a lamp-post in the middle of a wood and wondering what to do next, she heard a pitter patter of feet coming toward her. And soon after that a very strange person stepped out from among the trees in the light of the lamppost." When Lucy and her two brothers and one sister are sent to stay with an elderly professor in his large house in the country, they expect to be bored to death. But when they arrive they find, to their delight, that they are staying in a fantastic mansion full of suits of armor, aged books and tapestries, surrounded by a vast forest full of waiting adventures, and in a room in the attic a very old and very special wardrobe. Chronologically second in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is the tale of four English children who are brought through a very unique wardrobe into a world of beauty and cold. It is many hundred years after the beginning of Narnia, and the evil that was brought to it in the very beginning has now totally consumed it in winter and snow. However, the children are part of a prophecy that when fulfilled, will conquer and throw down that white evil.
C.S. Lewis has skillfully woven into this children's book, the truths of his Christian faith. It is full of wonderful ideas, morals, and Biblical truths and can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike.
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Summary: Not as good as I'd expected it to be.
Review: Whilst playing a game of hide-and-seek, Lucy accidentally discovers a wintry world beyond a wardrobe full of fur coats. She meets the Faun, Mr Tumnus, who invites her back to his home where he entertains her and explains about the world of Narnia, how it is controlled by an evil witch, and confesses that he has been kind to Lucy because he is under threat of dire punishment from the witch if he doesn't deliver any child of Eve or Adam who crosses his path. But Mr Tumnus takes a chance on the witch not finding out, and lets Lucy go back to her own world. Lucy tries to convince her three companions that she has been to Narnia, but hey all laugh. A few days later they all find their way into Narnia and embark on an adventure to destroy the power of the witch and save Narnia from an eternal winter where Christmas never happens. This was a book that I'd never read as a child and reading it as an adult the writing seems to be a bit too sketchy and rough around the edges. I don't know if this is of any relevance to the children reading this title, but it seems odd that C. S. Lewis' contemporary, J. R. R. Tolkien, made a significantly better job of The Hobbit. It was also interesting to compare C. S. Lewis' writing with Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series, since they are so much compared. Yes, Philip Pullman's writing is very similar, except for the minor ( but important ) detail that The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe is written in first person, avoiding the annoying viewpoint problem that Philip Pullman's work suffers from.
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Summary: An Adventurous Story
Review: I liked this book because it was adventureous. My favorite character was Aslan, because he would risk his life for anybody. And I think it was an exciting book.
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Summary: Book 2 - A guide to the unending magic of Narnia
Review: Although modern publishers frequently make "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" the second entry into the "Narnia Chronicles" series, strictly speaking it is the first, because it is the first book Lewis wrote about the world of Narnia. Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are busy playing in the huge house of a professor (the grown-up Digory), when they chance upon a wardrobe which turns out to be a doorway into another world: the world of Narnia. Under the curse of the wicked White Witch, Narnia is experiencing a harsh winter and suffers under her iron rule over the true-hearted creatures of Narnia. With the help of the delightful Mr. & Mrs. Beaver, the children begin making plans to rescue Narnia. When Edmund - under the influence of magical Turkish Delight - betrays them to witch, their lives are imperilled. Only the vital intervention of the great Lion Aslan can rescue the children - and all of Narnia - from the cold curse of the witch. This he does by means of a terrible sacrifice, and subsequent victory in a decisive battle involving all the creatures of Narnia. As with all the Narnia Chronicles, on the level of children the story functions as a perfectly comprehensible and exciting fantasy adventure, but on an adult level it imparts powerful spiritual truths about Christianity by means of numerous recognizable Biblical allusions. In "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" there are allusions to Satan's deceptive schemes in promising mankind kingship over the world, as well as to the death and resurrection of Christ as a substitutionary atonement in saving sinners from Satan (p.165ff). This cannot be regarded as a strict allegory, because otherwise one will be quick to point out its shortcomings (in Scripture it is God's justice, not Satan, that Christ must make a "deal" with). But Lewis plainly uses the great lion Aslan as a symbol of Jesus Christ. Meeting Aslan evokes a sense of awe, fear and delight (p.86), because he is "both terrible and good" (p.140ff), paralleling the holiness and mercy of the only Saviour Jesus Christ. As always, in all the upheavals and conflicts of Narnia, Aslan is the one constant, and it is his vital involvement that enables the children to complete their Narnian quest, just as it is Christ who inspires, comforts, guides, and saves in the real world. Narnia may exist only in Lewis imagination and ours, but these underlying truths about Christ ensure that a journey to Narnia is never without profit for the real world.
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Summary: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Review: The book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a fiction/fantasy book, similar to one of Tolkien's books. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the second book of seven to the Chronicles of Narnia. Although being the second book, I would recommend it to be the first book of the series to be read. It it easier and more clear to follow than first book, and the rest as well. Intended on being a older child's to a young teenager's book, this book would be suitable to be read by even adults. Being a fun and exciting book, it also has a somewhat rich vocabulary for being a book intended for children 9-12. It could be easily compared to the books of Harry Potter. So if you like to read fantasy books, this is a book that must be read. I give it a five star rating. The book deals with four main characters Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. They are to stay at a professor's house during the air-raids of Great Britain. Having a boring time, the youngest child Lucy, wanders into a wardrobe. However this was no ordinary wardrobe because it led her into a whole different world. When she returned from this realm, none of her siblings believed her. Later they all end up venturing into this new world. This leads them to an adventure they would never forget. In this land of Narnia, it is winter. Snow is everywhere, and this being very queer. For at home it is summer. The kids soon find out that humans do not exist here. Only animals that are both mythological and real, and sorcerers and witches dwell here. The children are called sons of Adam and daughters of Eve by everyone there. The children find out it is a large deal that they are there, and realize they are part of a prophecy. They encounter the wicked White Witch, that has a curse over the land of Narnia. This curse is what makes it winter all year round. They find that they are the key to saving the cursed land of Narnia from the White Witch. All children see her as being the evil person she is, except for Edmund who befriends her. She plans to stop the prophecy with having him by her side. The rest of them set out to meet the great lion Aslan, who will save the land of Narnia from the wicked White Witch. First, seeming terrifying, but then comforting, Aslan tells the children that they are the ones that will stop the White Witch. The story goes on from there. That is the main point of the book. It is filled with many more enchantments and adventure then I could have put down. The book is a must read book that people of all ages should pick up and read.
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Summary: This Story Rules!
Review: I am going to tell you about a wonderful book I read in class, this story is about 4 children who leave there home to live with a professor. When the youngest of the 4 children wonders of into a wardrobe and seeks what she can find. I won't give you the ending cause I hope you will check it out.
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