The Magician's Nephew Essay

After reading and re-reading this book for the umpteenth time, one would wonder how best to describe this book. This book was fairly famous in the past but how many people know of this book nowadays, especially in Hong Kong…

The Magician’s Nephew is a children’s fantasy novel written by C.S Lewis (full name: Clive Staples Lewis) in 1955. It was the sixth book of the Chronicles of Narnia and the first book of the recent editions of the Chronicles of Narnia. The books were illustrated by Pauline Baynes. The Magician’s Nephew is the prequel to the books of the Narnia series. The story was set in the late nineteenth century, London. Two children named Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer decided to explore the attic connecting the houses, but after going through the wrong passageway, they surprised Digory's Uncle Andrew in his study. Uncle Andrew tricked Polly into touching a yellow magic ring, causing her to vanish. He

Then, as they tried to escape Jadis, they jumped into the wrong pond and ended up in a world of darkness that Jadis recognized as a world not yet created.

Soon they heard singing, which the children and the Cabby thought was the most beautiful music they have ever heard. It was a lion named Aslan calling Narnia into being. Aslan created everything from the sky to the sea and every living thing. On his command, some animals became talking beings and Strawberry was also one of them. The ground was so new and growing that when Jadis threw the iron bar to attack Aslan, the iron bar she had broken off from a lamppost on our world grew into a lamppost on their world. As if the broken-off lamppost was a seed, to be sprouted into a plant. Aslan then came to the humans. Jadis ran away and Uncle Andrew fainted on the spot. However the children and Frank stayed