Write a book review of the book, The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
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This is a brilliant back-story, after reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe I really wanted to find out how it had all begun. The author does this in a fun way, Aslan is great and Jadis is mean. The magical rings explained how they first got to Narnia. A lovely book.
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The Magician’s Nephew is one of my favourites in C S Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. I read it for the first time about 10 years ago when I bought a collected volume of all of the novels. Until then I’d only read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe.
I love the storyline in The Magician’s Nephew. C S Lewis knew how to come up with something different.
I love the little links between The Magician’s Nephew and the other Narnia books, especially The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe.
The evil Queen that Digory wakes by accident is The White Witch. Digory is the old professor. We find out the lamp post ends up in the middle of the woods. The magical wardrobe is made from the wood of a tree that sprouted when Digory planted an apple from a magical tree in Narnia in the garden of his house. Aslan makes an appearance. Narnia is born.
I love Lewis’s style of writing in The Magician’s Nephew. He uses very simple language which I always find more effective than the overblown flowery nonsense that’s ‘popular’ nowadays. Why take 500 words to say what can be said in 50 or less?
The language Lewis uses in The Magician’s Nephew and the way the narrative is structured reminds me of a kind old grandfather perching his beloved granddaughter on his knee, one cold and winter night to tell her a magical story.
The Magician’s Nephew is short by contemporary novel standards. The length may qualify it as more of a novella. Lewis packs so much into such a sparse amount of pages. I’m impressed by how much happens in The Magician’s Nephew. Another writer would have spread this out across 300 pages or more.
Lewis writes The Magician’s Nephew in a style that encourages the reader to believe the story is true by directly addressing the reader:
It is a very important story because it shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the world of Narnia began….
In those days Mr Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road…
The characters are well developed in The Magician’s Nephew for such a short novel. Uncle Andrew is perfect as the snivelling villain whose dabbling in magic brings a whole load of trouble. There are hints of the true villain the witch will become in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. Polly reminds me of Lucy and Digory reminds me in Edmund in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe.
The best, stand out scenes in The Magician’s Nephew come near the end when Aslan is creating Narnia.
Polly, Digory and other reluctant visitors from our world are enchanted by the talking animals. Uncle Andrew only hears them roar and snarl. The animals are quite fascinated by him. They gather around him asking him questions. He only sees and hear a pack of marauding, wild animals and faints.
They think he’s a tree and plant him in the ground. They try and water him and the water revives him and he starts screaming. They dig him up and decide he must be an animal of some kind.
They put him in a cage until Aslan can see him. Several hilarious scenes follow in which the animals try and feed their new pet ‘Brandy’ by chucking various food sources at him including fruit, worms and a bees nest. Absolutely hilarious.
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