Exploring C. S. Lewis: A Christian Storyteller's Journey

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Title and Author
Title: C. S. Lewis Christian and Storyteller
Author: Beatrice Gormley

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Setting
C. S. Lewis Christian and Storyteller, a book by Beatrice Gormley, takes place from 1898 to 1969. It describes the life of C. S. Lewis, who is born in Belfast (now the capital of Northern Ireland). Warnie, the brother of C. S. Lewis, describes it as “the empty sky, the unspoilt hills, the white silent roads on which you could hear the rattle of a farm cart half a mile away” (Gormley 11). Both Warnie and Jack (C. S. Lewis) are sent over to Wynyard School in Watford, Hertford (north of London). Jack describes Watford as a flat and dreary place. After Jack finishes his

On June 1917, Jack joins a training program to become an officer in World War I. He describes what it was like on the front lines in France as “the horribly smashed men still moving like half-crushed beetles, the sitting or standing corpses, the landscape of sheer earth without a blade of grass” (Gormley 56). After World War I, Jack continues his studies at Magdalen College. When Jack finishes college, he is accepted as a professor at Cambridge University. He later buys a house in [next notecard]
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The personification used in this quote suggests that a pilgrim’s mood of despair imprisons him. Mood can affect a person socially, but it cannot physically imprison a person.

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Figurative Language
Hyperbole: “He wondered how much better Jack’s life might have been ‘if he had never had the crushing misfortune to meet her [Mrs. Moore],’ given what Jack had ‘accomplished even under that immense handicap’” (Gormley 62). This hyperbole exaggerates how bad Warren thought Mrs. Moore was, even though she wasn’t that bad. In fact, Jack said, “’If it were not for her,’ he told his friend George Sayer long afterward, ‘I should know little or nothing about ordinary domestic life as lived by most people’” (Gormley 63). [next notecard]
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Theme
The major theme of C. S. Lewis Christian and Storyteller is that if you need a creative idea, you should try something new so that you get inspired to do something. C. S. Lewis got his inspiration from his religion, but whatever you try, you should find a deeper meaning within