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There they are children again and find that no time at all has passed.Four children named Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy go to the country to live in the large, mysterious house of an old Professor during the London air raids. The children spend years in Narnia where they grow up to be Kings and Queens having many adventures until one day they are hunting in the woods and find their way back to their own world through the Wardrobe. As they despair, he suddenly appears to them alive again and leads them to the aid of Peter's army defeating the Witch forever. Aslan later goes willingly to the Witch in Edmund's place, letting her kill him.Īs the girls, Lucy and Susan secretly watch, he is shorn of his mane, tied up and killed. After his rescue, the Witch approaches Aslan claiming the right to Edmund's life because of his traitorous act. During the journey to find Aslan, Edmund betrays his siblings and goes to join the White Witch becoming her prisoner. While a wonderful adventure, the story is also allegorical in nature telling symbolically the story of Christ's sacrifice on the cross.Īslan the Great Lion is a Christ figure who sacrifices his life to save Edmund's. There they go on a journey to rescue Tumnus who has been arrested, find Aslan the Great Lion and defeat the White Witch forever. When Lucy returns home, her brothers and sister think she is either lying or crazy, but soon Edmund follows Lucy into the world and meets the White Witch who plies him with Turkish Delight, extracting a promise from him that he will bring his siblings to her.įinally, all of the children go through the wardrobe into Narnia. The only way the Witch can be defeated is to have four humans sit on the throne at the castle of Cair Paravel. He explains that the Witch has held Narnia under an enchantment which makes it always winter and never Christmas. Tumnus the faun who confesses to her that he is an agent of the White Witch and he is supposed to capture any humans he meets. The first of the children to make their way into Narnia is Lucy, the youngest.

Lewis and it tells the story of how these four children with the help of Aslan, the Great Lion, help defeat the White Witch who holds Narnia. This is the first story of Narnia written by C.S. In the darkness of the old country house where they are sent, the children stumble through an old wardrobe to the land of Narnia, where animals talk and magic exists. When the Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are sent out of London during World War II, they have no idea of the magical journey they are beginning.

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