Cs Lewis Research Paper

Of the many contributions that C.S. Lewis has given us, his literature is the major contribution that still lives on to this day. From his first published book, The Pilgrims Regress, to his last book titled The Discarded Image, many of his views are captured in his works. While his religious views are captured in his novels, Lewis’ childhood and adulthood continues to shine in his autobiographies, revealing the former Clive, or “Jack” as he liked to be called. Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland’s capital of Belfast on November 29th, 1898. He was the second born son of his father and solicitor Albert James Lewis and mother Florence Augusta; his brother Warren, three years his elder, was his only sibling. His mother Florence, who had cancer, died in 1908. Following his mother’s death, Lewis and Warren were sent to Wynyard School, a boarding school located in Hertfordshire, England. After two years of attending Wynyard, Lewis returned to his hometown in Ireland where he soon enrolled at Campbell College, a grammar school. Several months after enrolling as a boarding student, Lewis was withdrawn due to the development of serious respiratory issues. Following this issue, Lewis was sent to Malvern, England, “which was famous as a health

In 1917, he would attended University College in Oxford. Since WW1 had raged on for three years now, Jack joined a cadet battalion of the University Officers’ Training Corps. In November of the same year, he traveled to France as an officer, commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry. During the war Lewis was hospitalized for trench fever and wounded during the Battle of Arras. After the war, he “adopted” Janie Moore as his foster mother. Her son Edward Courtnay Francis "Paddy" Moore, a former cadet who had fought alongside Lewis, had been killed during the