The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe #2
Many times in stories the author tries to teach you a lesson or two. In the story, “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe,” written by C.S Lewis, I think that the author teaches us a lot of important lessons that he is showing through characters and problems in the story. One of the lessons that I think he is trying to teach is about honesty, and I think he is trying to show it through a problem that is going on in the story which is happening with Edmund and his three siblings.
What I think the author is trying to say about honesty is that honesty really is important because it can lead you to the way others treat you. For example when you are being honest, others will treat you better and trust you more, and when people trust you, they will tell you more. Having other people trust you is important because it shows that they feel that you are a close/good enough friend to tell some secrets to. But on the other hand, when you are not being honest, that can ruin part of your life. Not being honest can lead you to having no friends, and no one liking you. Maybe not even your siblings. And this is the part that connects to Edmund and the problem that he is having with his siblings.
The problem that Edmund is having with his siblings is that after he has been lying and not being honest, his siblings want nothing to do with him. What happen is that Lucy was trying to tell her siblings that she took a portal to another world but none of them believed her when she tried to show them the portal. Then one day Edmund went with Lucy into the portal and when the came back, Lucy wanted Edmund to tell her siblings all about the world that they went to, but instead he just started making up lies. He was saying they were just playing pretend and how none of this stuff that Lucy is saying is real. Later in the story Susan and Peter (the siblings) found out that Lucy was actually telling the truth that their was another world. This got Peter and Susan upset with Edmund because he wasn’t being honest and then that affected his relationship with his siblings.
I think what the author is trying to show us hear is that being honest is really important because it really can affect how you are being treated by not only your friends but also by your family. Having your family members/siblings not really trust you is a big deal and should be to everybody. I think the author has a good point about honesty that we should all take into consideration.