Comparing The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

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Published in the early 1950s, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, took 7 years to get off the presses to the public, according to “The Parallel World of Narnia” by Chad Walsh, and became one of Lewis’s best-sellers (2005). In this story four siblings, stumble upon The Wardrobe in their guardians room, which leads them into a secret mystical world, filled with mystical beings and magic, no one knows about. The Witch has taken over the world and has left it cold for many years, but there is also a prophecy, stating that four young children from adam, meaning human, will come and save the whole world from the curse. Along with Aslan, The Lion, the four children grow in their leadership and fighting skills and they go on to defeat

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