The lion, the witch and the wardrobe – My review

 

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe  is a very famous fantasy novel, and is one of the stories from The Chronicles of Narnia. I read all the book in Italian but I only read a little part of this book in English.

I read about the meeting of the Faun Tumnus with Lucy, the daughter of Eve. And I read the beginning of the book, when Lucy, Peter, Edmund, and Susan start to play “hide and seek”. In the first chapter these four kids discover the house of a professor who has an enormous house. Everyone starts hiding and Lucy thinks that the best hiding place is one big wardrobe. Lucy enters into this wardrobe and after a few seconds she understands that the wardrobe is a bridge to go to a different world: Narnia.

She understands that in that world is winter because she sees snowflakes falling from the sky. After this, Lucy meets Tumnus. He’s afraid of her and she is afraid of him at the beginning. Then, when the fear of Tumnus and Lucy of meeting ends, Tumnus invites her to drink a tea in his house. Lucy, who thinks that it’s cold outside, accepts.

While they’re drinking tea and eating sugar topped cakes, Lucy thinks that they’re becoming friends and Tumnus thinks that too. After this, Tumnus suddenly remembers that if you find a son of Eve, a human, you have to take him to the white witch, Jadis. Tumnus is scared but he doesn’t want to lose his new friend. So he helps Lucy to return into the wardrobe and return home.

Later, nobody trusts in Lucy because Peter, Susan, and Edmund think that she’s completely crazy. But they don’t know the adventure that they will live in the world that Lucy is talking about…

I think that this book is very interesting and I recommend it because it’s written in an amazing way.

Tommaso Lescio