The Chronicles of Narnia

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29,1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. For his college education he went to the University of Oxford. Lewis was a very exceptional english student and won many awards for his english essays. He became a tutor at his college as well. Later, Lewis became the first Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge. Lewis wrote books like the Space Trilogy and a book called Sin, the Fall and Redemption. His book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was his best selling novel. It sold more than 100 million copies in 41 different languages.

The book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is about four children, Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter, who must go live with their uncle. Their uncle's house is a huge estate. One day they decide to play hide and seek in their Uncle's house. In one room there is a wardrobe. Lucy, the youngest, hides inside the wardrobe. As she walks deeper into the wardrobe another door is found. She walks through the door and finds herself in a strange, wintry place. This strange place is a land called Narnia and is full of magical creatures. When she comes back through the wardrobe to tell her brothers and sister about Narnia none of them believe her. Only when the children are all forced to hide inside the wardrobe, and find the door to Narnia, do they finally believe Lucy. While in Narnia the children find out about a witch and her evil plan. They also meet a special friend named Aslan. If you want to find out about the witch's sinister plan, the fate of the children, and the secrets of this magical place called Narnia, you will have to read this amazing book.

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The excerpt I chose to read was on p. 193. This passage tells about the war between the good side of Narnia and the evil.

This book is told from the viewpoint of C.S. Lewis. He tells great details of each character and what certain things look like. He quickly brings you into his imagined world of Narnia. There are two main conflicts in this book. The first is between the creatures in Narnia that side with the Witch and those that side with the creature Aslan. The second conflict is about a young boy named Edmund and whether he would be on Aslan's or the Witch's side.

There are two major themes in this book:

Freedom is defined as the state of being free or at liberty, rather than in confinement or under physical restraint. It is also true that one can still be defined as a human being even if one is not granted sincere freedom. Despite the intangible nature of this celestial right, many a man has fought till the death to achieve it. It is a sad fact of our history as human beings that we could, and still can, deny such a God given right, we can so easily only think of what we desire, and so thoroughly we live and prosper in a world where children are crying and screaming in the night for things we, as citizens of this great United States, take advantage of every day! And, no, I am not speaking of the mere fact that they may not have their own freedoms. But, as the descendent of the people that signed to the words: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity..." in our very own Constitution; we have an undebatable resposibility to hold up this goal. And now that this world is far more advanced in its communications, economy, and technology it is our duty- no our birthright- that we expand this goal to benefit others, and not just ourselves. It is sad that so many of us limit our freedom to those boundaries. Of course there is always the debate of: "So, what are we going to do? Be the world's savior so often that we will soon need our own!?" It is childish to think with such a narrow mind, and of course we do not necessarily have to help every single third world country and completely run ourselves into the ground. That would be completely rash and utterly irresponsible. Although, we need to wipe clean the apparent stench of greed filling the pockets of the ones who benefit from such animosities- such as war, violence, illegal substances, and any other malefactor that creates our present day nation. Of course these components of everyday society do create their own disputes, which will also be recognized, it is no use in denying that our own human tendencies of greed, envy, violence, ruthlessness, corruptibility, and any other shortcoming are the undeniably precise cause to freedom's challenge.

Perhaps the most world renowned problem is poverty. When you turn on the news the headlines constantly blink the current situations of countries that are less fortunate that us. Countries such as Sierra Leone and Ethiopia are two of the most common ones mentioned. Although, they are not the only ones that should be recognized. Others like: Tanzania, Burundi, and Malawi are in desperate need too. All five of these countries are among the top most underdeveloped countries in the world, which causes them to be the top five countries with the lowest Gross domestic product per Capita. In other words, they export close to nothing, and import even less- causing a severe depression of money flow. And despite our advanced technology, easy to use communication systems, and flourishing economy, it's funny that the only countries that most of us have ever heard of off of that list are Sierra Leone and Ethiopia, only two out of the five. What happened to the other three? As fervently stated before, these countries are only a few among the thousands that do need help. There is no need to break the back of our financially based country, but, if we are still supporting an "established justice, and the insurance of domestic tanquility," then we are obligated to recognize the true number of third world countries that we live amongst.

On April 30th 1994, a great thing happened. Nate Morrison was born in Washington, D.C. Nate's real name is Robert, but everyone called him by his middle name: Nate. He has a good life with many childhood memories. Some of them were the first Idians' game ever and going to the park everyday.He travels a lot. He has been to many different places. Some of the places he's been to are Washington D.C., his hometown, the states of Kansas and Washington, both of which he also lived in, Hawaii, Arizona, Georgia, and Missouri.

Nate has a multiple number of hobbies. He enjoys playing soccer, baseball, basketball, and football. He also collects cards, bake cookies, and plays playstation

Nate's future goals are to get into West Point college. He also wants to try to make pro baseball. But, if that doesn't work out he would like to join the army, following in his father's footsteps.

Nate has accomplished some important things in his life. He has had good grades since he was little, graduated from sixth grade, and he has done very well in sports.

Nate's family is fairly large. It consists of David, his dad, Dina, his mom, and Gaby, his sister. His family has helped him by motivating him and help him in times of need.

He has some important dates in his life. Obviously, his birthday, April 30, 1994, December 25, 2004, the day he got his playstation 2, and June of 2006, when he graduated from sixth grade.

Nate is both Italian and Syrian. His family traditions are going to his grandmas to have big Italian dinners. And, again, on holidays they have big dinners

As you can see, Nate has a good family, friends, and an all around good life..