In C. S. Lewis's The Last Battle: The Chronicles Of Narnia

This seminar paper will compare and contrast between the fantastic worlds created in C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle: The Chronicles of Narnia, published in 1956, and Antoine Saint- Exupéry’s The Little Prince (original title: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943. The Chronicles of Narnia series is an amalgamation of dreams and fantasy of Pevensie siblings and their cousin Eustace Scrubb. Evacuated during the Blitz, the Pevensie siblings find respite in their fantastic world of Narnia where they have full control as kings and queens. The narrator of the ‘The Little Prince’ is a full grown adult who is stuck in the vast expanse of Sahara Desert. Isolated from all four directions with zero human interaction, he quenches his hunger and thirst by releasing his repressed childhood artistic urges and summons the Little Prince, an inhabitant of asteroid B-612.
This seminar paper is divided into three parts: introduction, argument and conclusion. The introduction has laid foundation for the theory of children’s literature. The body is further be divided into two parts where the

Both of them are narrated by the pilot narrator who meets the Little Prince in the Sahara desert. The narrator’s encounter with the Little Prince symbolizes the real world while the journey of the prince symbolizes the fantastic world. The distinction between the two gets blurred when narrator meets the prince. The text is written by an adult writer and from the point of view of an adult narrator. Hence initially, the narrator is shown to have difficulty in juxtaposing with the fantastic world as he says “I jumped up, completely thunderstruck. I rubbed my eyes, blinked hard and looked carefully around me. And I discovered an extraordinary little boy… I therefore stared in total astonishment at this sudden apparition.” (Chapter two, The Little