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I have my mother to thank for introducing me to C.S. Lewis and the elaborate fantasy land of Narnia. She would read from any of the seven books belonging to The Chronicles of Narnia on our summer vacations with great fervor, giving each character its own voice, roaring when the book referenced Aslan’s great roar, painting such vivid pictures that I would rather be lounging about listening to the adventures taking place in the magical land of Narnia than exploring whatever offerings our foreign surroundings held. I would like to be able to claim that I left the world of Narnia behind as I matured into adolescence to pursue much more noble publications, but that would be a lie. I have poured over many “grown-up” books, but I will never forsake Narnia. …show more content…

Lewis in my early years was the commencement of my interest in what this gripping author provided, it was a time of doubting my faith that brought me to read his Christian Apologetics. My first post Narnia read was The Problem of Pain. In my questioning of why a God who supposedly created all of us and loved us would seemingly abandon us in lives marred with pain and suffering, C.S. Lewis provided the insight that my adolescent mind couldn’t reach on it’s own. Next I read The Screwtape Letters in which CS Lewis manages to personify spiritual warfare through a demon named Wormwood. I have read several more of C.S. Lewis’s books, but I feel this is enough of an explanation to make my point. C.S. Lewis has an amazing ability to take biblical doctrine and express it in ways that even the ignorant and angry can understand the truth in it. This is his

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