Levi Holliday, Mr. Pudewa Institute for Excellence in Writing, 29 May 2024. C. S. Lewis: A Writer’s Odyssey from Atheism to Christianity The early years of C. S. Lewis laid the foundation for his future accomplishments as a writer. Significantly, Clive Staples Lewis’s family highly valued reading and education, which immensely impacted him later in life. Lewis, displaying prodigious abilities, mastered reading by three and was already crafting stories by the age of five! When Clive was four, his dog, Jacksie, was run over by a car. Lewis was so troubled by this event that he would not answer to any other name except Jacksie. 6 However, he later accepted Jack. Subsequently, when C. S. Lewis was seven, his family moved to what would become their family home they …show more content…
The death of his mother transformed Clive Staples Lewis’s life to the extent that he is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The life and final days of the influential C. S. Lewis were marked by unexpected twists and turns, ultimately leading to his passing just before his sixty-fifth birthday. [2] On July 15, 1963, C. S. Lewis was hospitalized because he was feeling miserably ill. The next day, he suffered a heart attack at 5 PM and slipped into a coma. Wonderfully, Lewis unexpectedly woke up at 2 PM the next day and was later discharged from the hospital. 6. His condition continued to worsen. Subsequently, he was diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure. [5] Because the sickness was ravaging his body, C. S. Lewis collapsed in his bedroom on Friday, November 22, 1963, at five thirty PM, which was one week before his sixty-fifth birthday. His death was overshadowed by the assassination of President Kennedy. The burial of one of the most influential authors of all time, Clive Staples Lewis, is only a short walk from his home at the Holy Trinity Church in Oxford. Bibliography “C. S. Lewis Facts