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Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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In the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis,a lot has happened.They met up with a beaver, Edmund has gone to the White Witch, it is confirmed they are going to Aslan and Santa has appeared. All the siblings have had a different reaction to their point in their journeys in Narnia.

 

First up, Lucy. Of course, I will have to explain the situation for each first. Lucy, at a young age (I’m guessing 5) is the most naive but most experienced in Narnia, for she has spent the most time. She has gotten on fairly well, meeting Mr.Tumnus and all, but has been teased about it not existing. She has had leadership placed on her shoulders. Lucy at the moment would be quite worried for they were on the run for a presumably dangerous foe. I say presumably because she’s never met the White Witch. However, she will be flipping that she met Santa, for it’s any young kids’ dream. So mixed feelings.

 

Next, Susan and Peter. Both of them have less experience in Narnia than Lucy, but are older. Unlike Lucy, they have started off on the wrong note having seen Mr.Tumnus’s house destroyed knowing he was taken away.  They will be thinking more calmly, though, for they will be experienced enough to know that staying calm will help them think better. They will be developing a strategy and making sense of the current situation. They will be thinking why they might need such weapons that Santa gave them. They’re thinking a lot that day.

 

Last and definitely our least favourite, Ed. What he’ll be doing is tying his brain in knots. He has been tricked into obeying the White Witch, and has a hatred for Peter. He was tricking himself into thinking that she was nice and realised the truth.  He’ll be tricking himself into agreeing with his old and kicking himself for endangering his siblings at the same time, and’ll cower in worry of what may happen to his siblings for some time. He is most likely the worst off at the moment mentally.

 

This is what I think the sibling will be thinking. Lucy scared but flipping in joy, Susan and Peter tiring their brains, and Edmund caught in the biggest knot of all time (just kidding LOL). Thanks for reading. :<)

Lion Witch and the wardrobe

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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

 

In the “Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S Lewis, Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter all get evacuated to a mysterious country house in England during WWII. As they play a game, Lucy comes into the magical world of Narnia through a wardrobe. However, the White Witch has made it everlasting winter. Edmund has been tricked to help the White Witch with her plans to keep herself in control of Narnia. Edmund has been really spiteful towards Lucy.

 

The reason I most strongly believe in is that he is trying to make himself more heard and to get more attention by his siblings. This is because, he is in the totally wrong position to be the most listened to. Susan and Peter are both much older than the other two, so are the most respected and reliable. Lucy is the youngest, so the others give her time to speak, to stop her from feeling bad. However, this means that Edmund isn’t getting as much attention as the others. This would make him jealous, upset and angry, all of which can contribute to spitefulness. I think that this would be the most likely reason.

Another reason could be a form of self esteem taken to far. What this would be is in his case is him not wanting to believe anyone else could possibly be right. Then, he naggs them about the fact that their wrong because he wants to send the message that he’s always right and they aren’t, just in case they didn’t realise that they truly were wrong. And once he knows he’s wrong, he wants to cover his mistake and make it seem like he never was wrong. One way to do this is to lie about it, even if it’s really mean towards the person who was right. Despite the many options, this is the easiest way out, and Edmund took it.

 

The following are the reasons I think that Edmund might be spiteful. Out of not speaking so trying to get attention, and too much self esteem.

Social issues – Noy- Mistreatment of animals

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The issue that matters to me the most is mistreatment of animals. This is a social issue in the first place because
1: Mrs.Cooper said so and
2: Animals are also living things as well
It matters to me because I think that it is unfair that 1 species of over-intelligent animals (humans) should be able to claim superiority over another and mistreat animals that never did anything wrong. For the sake of doing so, I’m going to categorise then list different types of ways the mistreatment comes up, and then talk a bit about each and every one.

SPORT

Bull sports. There are 2 different types of common sports (other than hunting wild animals for sport; popular 1600s – 1870s) involving bulls, and to save space I’m grouping them together. The first is a well known sport well loved in Spain, one which you will almost definitely  recognise. It it bull fighting. A sport where the man is almost guaranteed to win, the bull to die and no-one really cares about what happens to the poor, poor bull. I don’t really think I need to explain further. Just a cruel sport. The next one is one that I don’t know much about other that it isn’t well known, and the aim. The aim? To jump over a bull and avoid a painful death. Do I need to tell you how annoying it is to sit still? Poor thing, I wouldn’t think I could survive staying still for enough time for someone to leap over me.

Shark hunting. Also a sport. More about this practice later.

Dog fights. Not in common practice anymore, but is still legal in some countries (not England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿). Dogs are forced to fight each other to the death in fighting rings.🐕☠️ The emojis explain it all, really. Another form was a bunch of mice vs dog. Bye bye, mice.🐁☠️

Financial/ business

Shark hunting. Also a sport. Increasingly popular due to the demand of shark fin soup throughout China and Hong Kong. Made easier/ more abundant due to the popular practice of “finning”. This takes the valuable part (the fin), cuts it of, and throws the rest back in the water. This results to more shark deaths a day, hour, whatever you want. Just more shark deaths, that’s all.

Circuses. Many people will be appalled to see that I am putting it on this list. But how am I supposed to be denied the truth? The thing is, animals find in very stressful for the animals. So what do they do? They put on tight and uncomfortable mask blocking view of crowds. Also, they are forced to do tricky routines that naturally the animals wouldn’t do in the wild, and this may be hard for them to be able to pull of. Also, sometimes, ringmasters or the people in charge of the act can be very strict and hurt the animals. And this is just my opinion from experience, but it always looks like the animals (elephants) are pulling a sad face.😿

Hunting. I really wanted to replace this sentence with a rude sentence. But anyways, the replacement is: If you think illegally hunting down endangered animals who can’t help themselves for some cash is fine, your mental. Plain and simple. Your mental. Why on earth would you break the law and end a harmless creature for some cash?💰 That’s mental.

Farming. This is an odd one, isn’t it. And no, this is not here to point out the fact that they kill animals for food. Because that is obvious.🤦 It is here for another 2 reasons. Did you know right outside of many rainforests, there are farms? Well those farms are owned by greedy big bad wolfs who are never happy.🐺 They say “Hey, my farm’s big, but I want more!” Then they decide instead of buying property of other people, to cut dow some of the rainforest and claim that land their own.✂️🌲 This destroys the habitats of many, many animals. Also, sometimes, species of animals like tigers (Asia) or lions (Africa) attack and eat some of the farm animals.🍴 There are many ways around this problem, but guess what they choose? To shoot the animal for being hungry and the farmer not being careful.🔫🦁 That is just mean!

Furniture. You heard the devistating effect of cutting down trees from earlier? Same hear, man!

Say wha? The Mad Nutter

Basically, this is an animal nutter who is as mad as the mad hatter (Both were in the Victorian era, too).🎩He had snakes on the banisters🐍, zebras pulling his carriage🚃🦓, monkeys at the dinner table to talk to🐒💺, and many other animals. As you may of noticed, his obsession was bad for animals.