1. C.S. Lewis in Narnia: Allegory, or Not?
He told a fifth grade class that: [he] did not say to [him]self "Let us represent Jesus as He really is in our world by a Lion in Narnia"; [he] said "Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia and that the Son of God, as he became a Man in our world, became a Lion there and then imagine what would happen". ... Especially upon continued reading, where Lewis is stated to have written another piece of fan mail that the whole series is fitted into allegorical categories in the fact that: The Magician's Nephew tells the Creation and how evil entered Narnia, The Lion, [the Wit...
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