How did you feel after reading Last Battle?

prince_caspian said:
I was sooo sad! Also bored since they didn't fight in Heaven. Nor did Reepicheep who went to Aslan's Country in ThVygOThDaTr tell of his adventures.
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I see you do not know much of Heaven, or at least not enough to have figuered out that YOU DO NOT FIGHT IN HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And whos to say Reepicheep never told them? Lewis didn't put it in the book it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

And WHY DO YOU PEOPLE THINK THE LAST BATTLE IS SO SAD???? ITS THE SECOND HAPPIEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only reason I could ever find to be sad about it is that its the end of the Narnia seris.:)
 
pink-cheetah said:
Mostly, it was Aslan's ending speech that confused me. "The term had ended, this is the holidays" or something akin to that. "The dream has ended, this is the morning!" Not really being acquainted with the English vocabulary (ie, term as opposed to semester- silly me!), I was thrown off.
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Being an american, I also had no idea "term" meant "semester". Right before Aslan says "the term is over", he tells the Pevensies, Digory, Polly, Eustace, and Jill "You are, as they say in the shadowlands, dead". When Aslan says that the term is over, I always thought that the "term" was death, as in "death no longer has meaning". Which, quite frankly, works for me.;)
 
I'm happy and sad on the same time, because I finished the books that are really wonderful, but I'm happy too because this books added something in my life. I learnt something through this books. I grew up inside and my faith is stronger. Thanks, C.S. Lewis!
 
Sprotty98 said:
I'm happy and sad on the same time, because I finished the books that are really wonderful, but I'm happy too because this books added something in my life. I learnt something through this books. I grew up inside and my faith is stronger. Thanks, C.S. Lewis!
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One of the best things about the Chronicles of Narnia books is that the series can be re-read a lot and get more enjoyable every time, as you see more and more of the deeper meanings you might have missed on the first reading. I love the world of Narnia because I can enter it again and again at so many different stages of my life without losing any of my enjoyment.
 
Life in this world is like the life of shirts in a department store. Such shirts all believe that it is normal and usual for all shirts to have price tags throughout their existance.

Along comes "Mr. Death" who buys a shirt, takes off the price tag and spirits it away from the store never to be seen in the store again.

The shirt, on the other side of the door, comes to realize that the true purpose of being a shirt is not to hang in a store. It also realizes that the vast majority of all shirts that exist do not have price tags.

We with our notions of life after death tend to think like shirts in a store. In fact, shirts in a store are the exception, as is their viewpoint on what life is all about.
 
It remains along with THAHB my favorite of the series. Both its general plot and characters-Shift and Rishda Tarkaan make such good finale antagonists, along with Tash of course. Also of course the biblical revelation it is modeled after.

One of my favorite parts besides the ending-is when the heroes discuss their options-from fighting to fleeing, and reject all of them. Its hopeless, the bad guys have really won it this time-but then the end comes.

Magnificent.
 
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