tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post113781954599477297..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Good literary stuffJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1138048335706146202006-01-23T15:32:00.001-05:002006-01-23T15:32:00.001-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Lomagirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09273397354830985024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1138048335704532152006-01-23T15:32:00.000-05:002006-01-23T15:32:00.000-05:00I'd never thought of the Narnia books in such a ne...I'd never thought of the Narnia books in such a negative way. Perhaps I just accept the dominant figure too easily. The part I love? That not everyone who follows Aslan has to live the same way or be the same.<BR/>Read "Till We Have Faces" to see a different side of Lewis.Lomagirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09273397354830985024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1137870217579587482006-01-21T14:03:00.000-05:002006-01-21T14:03:00.000-05:00I loved "What Katy Did" too; read it again and aga...I loved "What Katy Did" too; read it again and again; even at the time realizing that it is EXCEPTIONALLY moralizing! I must get hold of a copy and see what I think now....Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1137841091158019012006-01-21T05:58:00.000-05:002006-01-21T05:58:00.000-05:00The Narnia books were my absolute favourites as a ...The Narnia books were my absolute favourites as a child too (we didn't have Harry Potter then of course).<BR/>I agree Aslan is a parent-authority figure, as is common in children's literature -- almost all such stories end up with some adult "sorting it all out" at the end (as does a lot of adult fiction!). I don't think that Narnia stories are unique in this regard.<BR/>When I was a child, the religious aspects of Narnia completely passed me by. What I was fascinated by was the sense of "how it all came together", the logical construction of the worlds, and the playing with time. I can still remember the sense of excitement I felt when I read "The Magician's Nephew" quite late on in the series, and put it all together. Based on my own experience, I can only say that children are very good at filtering out what they don't want to absorb. When I read the stories to my own children I was quite taken aback by the religious aspects, having failed totally to take them on board as a child I had not realised they were there. (A similar realisation occurred in reading "What Katy Did", in that it is full of sermons!) <BR/>As for the Donald Trump analogy, daft. Children, and adults, choose their role models. Some may choose Donald Trump (hard for me to imagine) but what has that got to do with Narnia? You might just as easily have chosen Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Marie Curie, Bobby Kennedy, Albert Einstein, Emiline Pankhurst, or almost any prominent "principled" role-model, on the basis of reading Narnia books.Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.com