C.S. Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe “I have just passed on from believing in God to definitely believing in Christ… My long talk with Hugo Dyson and Tolkien and had a great deal to do with it.” - C.S. Lewis (Wheaton College). Due to an imaginative mind and hardships through religion, his life sparked many ideas from the novel and contributed to his major success in English literature. By looking at The Chronicles of Narnia, one can see that C.S. Lewis included the themes of Christianity and his own life experiences because God played one of the most important roles in his life.
C.S. Lewis, also known as Jack, was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29,1898. His parents were Albert J. Lewis and Florence Augusta Lewis. As a child Lewis grew up in a middle class household with his older brother who he was very close with. While his mother Flora was sick with cancer, C.S Lewis would constantly pray for her to live. But just three short months before he had turned ten, his mother had still passed away. His mother’s death not only hurt him deeply, but his father was never the same. Lewis’s dad was in constant grief so he alienated himself from his own children, making them feel as if their home wasn’t warm and inviting anymore(Christian History).
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Lewis picked up the name “Inklings” from an undergraduate group after their leader graduated and the group disbanded. The group included C.S. Lewis and his close circle of friends who all met weekly for years. They commonly met at the English and Child pub in Oxford on Tuesday mornings. Lewis felt kinship with the Inklings and it is definitely evident in some of his work (Inklings). Many have noted the inspiration that Lewis and Tolkin had provided each other. Two of the members, Tolkin and Hugo Dyson, would eventually help Lewis’s conversion from Atheism to