★ A Breath of Life

Haha, you might be thinking from my previous post… wait… they didn’t make this into a movie…? That’s right, they didn’t… at least not yet.

After watching the new Prince Caspian movie, I decided to go back and start rereading the books for … I’m not sure, the third or fourth time. I love those books so much, and yet I can’t remember them. So, I started at book 1, the Magician’s Nephew. And WOW, my love for the books has been restored. It’s such an easy read and so captivating that I finished it in a couple hours. Reading it on my own with a new perspective on life and a new understanding of all the allegories involved, it really meant something different. It’s true what the reviews about these books say, everyone should read the series at least 3 times in their life; as a child (oh what a wonderful adventure story to read to your kids), as a young adult (or teen or whatever, you know, that age when you’ve learned to ‘close read’ books), and as an adult (when you’ve started to forget all those childhood fantasies and faiths).

Anyway, rereading the first book, I vaguely remembered the kids jumping into pools with the rings, freeing the witch, the creation of Narnia, and the one apple that would create the portal from our world to theirs. Of course, I only remember those as adventure and fantasy that kept me captivated and daydreaming about my own adventure. This time through I saw how true it was to the story of man, of how we brought sin into the perfect world that God made for us, and how horrible that really is; how even though sin is horrendous, God gives us the chance to be forgiven. Anyway, I’m not an English major, far from it, so my writing is horrible (I totally admit to that) so I’m not going to try to write the gorgeous eloquent review that this book deserves. Just go read it. It’s good. I promise. And if you don’t think it’s good, well then, you’re just like Uncle Andrew.

I was wondering if the names of the characters had any significance. I thought about it long and hard. I can’t figure it out… is there a significance?