Comparing The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

Young children are always credited with their endless imaginations. In the book, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the youngest girl named Lucy accidentally discovers a magic world called Narnia when exploring in a wardrobe. Lewis makes a point about the ability of younger children being more open minded by making Lucy and Edmund the first to discover Narnia. Upon first arriving at the house, the kids were excited to explore every inch of their new residence. When the kids discovered the room with the wardrobe, Peter, Susan, and Edmund all lost interest fast and left the room while Lucy felt there was something worth exploring in the mysterious room. She was drawn to the wardrobe and stepped inside with an open mind, stretching her arms out in front of her. The further she went the more excited she got as she could not feel the back wall of the wardrobe. Letting her inquisitive side take over, Lucy ventured on, eager to discover what the wardrobe hid. Because of her curious, open mind, Lucy was the first to discover Narnia. When she returned and told her older siblings what she had found, none of them believed her and told her to stop playing games.

In order poke fun at Lucy for thinking there was a magic world in a wardrobe, Edmund later followed her inside. However, Edmund was not as thoughtful as Lucy and ended up shutting the door behind him. He quickly lost his bearings and soon his young mind’s imagination started taking hold as he “began groping wildly in every direction,” (Lewis 30). As his mind became more open to the mysterious wardrobe, due to his building panic, he found himself wandering into the woods. Edmund’s ordeal suggests that he was only able to find Narnia his second time in the wardrobe because his mind was open in his