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[timbalionguy]

The Silver Chair

i think this is also one of the most symbolic in the series... christianity wise. i mean rilian (us) is bound to this chair (sin) and he needs too amazingly coold kids to cut the rope (God) and then and only then will we be our real selves. aww... where did i come up with that?

The Silver Chair is my favorite of the Chronicles as well. The best parts are at the beginning, where Jill and Aslan have a conversation before she is blown into Narnia (Imagine riding on a lion's breath..mmmmmmm! ) This is a great faith-challenger. Then, at the end, we see Caspian's redemption and ressurection in Aslan's country. And of course, there is Aslan and Caspian's brief visit to our world!

The story of the headmistress of Experiment House, and what became of her is priceless. The scary thing is I knew a person like that.... And yes, she eventually got involved in politics!

 

[inkspot]

I love the scene with PG stamping on the fire and asserting he'll go on believing in fairy tales because they're so much better than the reality under the earth -- CS Lewis himself, before he became a Christian, said "Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores." Even as an atheist, he wanted to believe, because not believing was so hopeless, so boring.

I also love SC because: the kids mess everything up, and yet they pull off their quest in the end! This has such a great spiritual lesson, because we are forever messing up on the tasks Christ assigned us (love your neighbor as yourself, pray without ceasing, watch for My coming, etc.) and yet He manages to bring us through in spite of ourselves.

In Mere Christianity, Lewis said God is not so much concerned with our actions, as that we become a certain kind of people, with a will to do the right thing, you know, even when we don't do it. We see that very clearly in SC, as the children's actions lead them time and again into terrible fixes -- but their hearts were in the right place, and Aslan rescues them, despite their failures.

A very nice lesson for us.

 

[Emperor of the East]

Jadis and the Green witch are similar in some ways and different in other. The Green witch doesn't have the physical toughness and strenght of Jadis. They are both evil. Is it possible that their connecting is the Northern Witches or that the Green Witch escaped from Charn before the final war. In the Magician's Nephew Digory and Polly went to a room of images in charn. It could be that the Green witch is one of the slightly earlier images. I get this idea because while still being evil the Green witch seems a little more humane.

 

[Lucy the Marshwiggle]

The Silver Chair is my favorite book out of The Chronicles of Narnia.