Reading The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

This blogpost is not as long as one of my other ones, Number the Stars. This time I am writing about the book I had a fun time reading called The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I am working on friendship this block in homeschool and while I was reading the book I noticed that several of the characters showed friendship.

When Lucy first comes into Narnia she find a faun, Mr. Tumnus, and he invites her to have tea by the fire at his house. Lucy falls asleep while Mr. Tumnus plays the flute. Mr. Tumnus was just tricking Lucy because he worked for the White Witch. His job was if he  ever saw or met a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve he would kidnap them and bring them to the White Witch. Once he found out that Lucy was a Daughter of Eve he was going to kidnap her, but he fixed his mistake and helped her escape from the White Witch by helping her find the way back to her house. Mr. Tumnus showed friendship by saving Lucy's life.

When everybody comes into Narnia, Lucy is the leader and she leads them to Mr. Tumnus’s house, but when they gets there they find his house is all destroyed by the White Witch. Everybody is hungry and cold and wants to just forget and leave the poor faun, but Lucy says, “No we can’t. We need to help Mr. Tumnus this nice faun." Even though Lucy did not know where to go she was a good friend by staying in Narnia to help this faun.

The first time Edmund went into Narnia he spoke with the White Witch and thought she was friendly because she Edmund gave Turkish Delight. Edmund told told the White Witch about Lucy meeting a faun. Later Edmund found out from Lucy that the White Witch was bad. Lucy said the Witch was pretending to be nice to Edmund, because the second time Edmund came to Narnia the Witch captured him, and Lucy and her brothers and sisters helped Edmund escape from the White Witch. Lucy and her siblings showed friendship by helping Edmund escape.  

Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund find a red robin who leads them to a beaver. The beavers, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, help the kids by giving them some food and bringing them to their house to be warm. The Beavers also tell the kids about Aslan who could save Mr. Tumnus and find Edmund. When Aslan comes winter will die and spring will come. The Witch can not turn Aslan into stone, and Aslan is more powerful then the Witch. The Beavers were showing friendship by getting them some food and letting them stay at their house and also by telling them about Aslan.  

When the kids find and meet Aslan they camp with him and others. Lucy and Susan can't sleep. The girls go out of their tent and see Aslan walking to the stone table. The

White Witch was there. (Aslan and the White Witch talked the day before and Edmund had to be killed, but Aslan was willing to be killed for him.) Aslan gets killed so Edmund doesn't have to die. When the girls get up from their hiding place they see the stone table. It had cracked and Aslan isn’t there anymore.

"Is this more deep magic?" Lucy asked.

"Yes, it is," said a great voice behind them. They turned around and see Aslan. Aslan gave up his life for Edmund, and that takes a lot of courage and friendship at the same time.

I liked this book and I had a fun time reading it. I can show friendship lots of ways. I can help my friends when they need help or help them when they get hurt. This book taught me all about friendship and I am glad I read this book.