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Faith by Wallwaker [G]
Fandom: Narnia
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fanaticalone
Why this story must be read:
In The Magician's Nephew, a great many strange and terrifying things happen to the characters, changing them in profound ways. Perhaps none more so than Uncle Andrew, the mad, eccentric sorcerer whose work allows Digory and Polly to discover Narnia, thus setting in motion all the events of the series. He was not a kind man; but by the end of the book, he is changed somewhat. And even wizards can be forgiven. This is a lovely coda to The Magician's Nephew, and a very powerful sotry for the characters.
He took another deep breath. Imagine, him a dignified man, and he had even considered such a childish conceit... "Did you ever think that the lion was... well... singing?"
His nephew - a student now, well on his way to becoming a learned man, and perhaps already a wiser man than himself - did not laugh. He just looked at him very gravely. "Why, Uncle Andrew?" he said. "What did you think?"
"Well... when we first arrived... I do think he was singing, now that I try to remember it," he said quickly. It was a difficult admission for him; grown-ups have a certain kind of silliness in them as well as children, and Uncle Andrew's silliness had a great deal to do with pride and dignity and other things that were, he'd started to realize, not important in the slightest. "I didn't believe it, and for a very long time I thought that I'd heard things, that he was just growling. I thought he really was roaring after a while... but now I wonder if perhaps he wasn't singing all along."
Faith
Author on LJ:
fanaticaloneWhy this story must be read:
In The Magician's Nephew, a great many strange and terrifying things happen to the characters, changing them in profound ways. Perhaps none more so than Uncle Andrew, the mad, eccentric sorcerer whose work allows Digory and Polly to discover Narnia, thus setting in motion all the events of the series. He was not a kind man; but by the end of the book, he is changed somewhat. And even wizards can be forgiven. This is a lovely coda to The Magician's Nephew, and a very powerful sotry for the characters.
He took another deep breath. Imagine, him a dignified man, and he had even considered such a childish conceit... "Did you ever think that the lion was... well... singing?"
His nephew - a student now, well on his way to becoming a learned man, and perhaps already a wiser man than himself - did not laugh. He just looked at him very gravely. "Why, Uncle Andrew?" he said. "What did you think?"
"Well... when we first arrived... I do think he was singing, now that I try to remember it," he said quickly. It was a difficult admission for him; grown-ups have a certain kind of silliness in them as well as children, and Uncle Andrew's silliness had a great deal to do with pride and dignity and other things that were, he'd started to realize, not important in the slightest. "I didn't believe it, and for a very long time I thought that I'd heard things, that he was just growling. I thought he really was roaring after a while... but now I wonder if perhaps he wasn't singing all along."
Faith