Looking Forward to Their Stories
(at Narnia)
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis
(at Narnia)
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis
Bella, Benny and Lilly
Ezekiel
Leski, Ana, Lexi and Oma
Leski and Lexi
Lucy enters the Wardrobe
For those who are fearful of the violent scenes in Narnia one should remember that since children will meet cruel enemies in real life, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Lewis said: “Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let villains be soundly killed at the end of the book.” He continued, “Nothing will persuade me that this causes an ordinary child any kind or degree of fear beyond what it wants, and needs, to feel. For in the fairy tales, side by side with the terrible figures, we find the immemorial comforters and protectors, the radiant ones; and the terrible figures are not merely terrible, but sublime. It would be nice if no little boy in bed, hearing, or thinking he hears, a sound, were ever at all frightened. But if he is going to be frightened, I think it better that he should think of giants and dragons than merely of burglars. And I think St George, or any bright champion in armor, is a better comfort than the idea of the police.”
For those who are fearful of the violent scenes in Narnia one should remember that since children will meet cruel enemies in real life, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Lewis said: “Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let villains be soundly killed at the end of the book.” He continued, “Nothing will persuade me that this causes an ordinary child any kind or degree of fear beyond what it wants, and needs, to feel. For in the fairy tales, side by side with the terrible figures, we find the immemorial comforters and protectors, the radiant ones; and the terrible figures are not merely terrible, but sublime. It would be nice if no little boy in bed, hearing, or thinking he hears, a sound, were ever at all frightened. But if he is going to be frightened, I think it better that he should think of giants and dragons than merely of burglars. And I think St George, or any bright champion in armor, is a better comfort than the idea of the police.”
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