Magicians Nephew Sparknotes

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Quinton Ranzau
English 12 CP
Dawn Tigernina
May 5, 2014 For my British Novel protect I read, The Magicians Nephew by C.S. Lewis. This book was published by Scholastic Inc.. C.S. Lewis also has had this book copyrighted in 1955 when he finished writing it. The particular version that I read had 202 pages in it. Digory Kirk is one of the main characters in The Magicians Nephew. He is a young boy who lives in London. Through the story Digory is an ambitious and brave young boy. He shows these traits when Aslan asks him to retrieve a golden apple to repeal the witch from entering Narnia. While he is on this quest, by himself, he is tempted to give the magical golden apple to his mother to save her from the disease she is dying from. …show more content…

They describe is as a dying world because of two reasons. The first being that the sun was blood red, and the second is that there is few plants and the very few living creatures were in a state of deep sleep and could not be awoken. All of these creatures except for one who had a riddle and a bell besides her. This is creature become know as Jadis. This is were Jadis ruled as queen before she eventually destroyed the land and creatures with her evil sorcery. The woods between the worlds acts like a modern day a pit-stop between the worlds that the children travel too. This magical place has pools or puddles of water that act as portals to new and old worlds. Their are also many very few creatures here other than a talking guinea pig. This guinea pig guides the two into the different worlds. Their are also many trees that the children first use as hiding places. This becomes the middle ground for the adventure that they go on. Narnia in this book is being created by Aslan. It is created by the tune that Aslan sung. It is here where their are many different types of animals that can talk. This place resembles earth in that is has a little bit of everything. When Aslan created it he made is so that it could only be reached by magical means and not many people would be allowed to enter this wonderful …show more content…

Today Polly and Digory discovered a dormant world called Charn. In this world the sun was blood red and their were few plants and animals. They find an old bell with a riddle on it telling them that they could awake the people if they dare. They ring the bell and meet the queen of this world, Jadis. Jadis then persuades them to take her back to where they came from. Today is Friday May 2nd, I started reading on page 73 and ended on page 100. Today they take Jadis back to England. In England Jadis makes Uncle Andrew her personal sevent. After she has adjusted herself to the new world she devise a plot to take control of it. Polly and Digory find out this plot and make her leave I expectantly and end up taking Uncle Andrew and a cab driver with a house with them. They then go to a dark place where they see a Aslan creating a new world which he calls

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