I just found it all really interesting as a kid--Jadis and her backstory, the Wood Between the Worlds and Diggory and Polly wandering around there, Uncle Andrew being so smart and so dumb at the same time (and that great line he has about high and lonely destiny, and C.S. Lewis is laughing at him so hard), and Narnia being created out of bits of our world mixed with its own substance. And when my mother was ill I found myself thinking about the choice Diggory makes at the end, and how it's even harder than I realized as a kid. And yeah, those silver apples, and how lucky he is to get them.
So yeah, it's the book that situates Narnia in this older discourse, and I really do like it a lot.
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I just found it all really interesting as a kid--Jadis and her backstory, the Wood Between the Worlds and Diggory and Polly wandering around there, Uncle Andrew being so smart and so dumb at the same time (and that great line he has about high and lonely destiny, and C.S. Lewis is laughing at him so hard), and Narnia being created out of bits of our world mixed with its own substance. And when my mother was ill I found myself thinking about the choice Diggory makes at the end, and how it's even harder than I realized as a kid. And yeah, those silver apples, and how lucky he is to get them.
So yeah, it's the book that situates Narnia in this older discourse, and I really do like it a lot.