RE: [thelionscall] Joy in Narnia
I don't often feel that sensation with other books, outside of Lewis, and
sometimes with Tolkien. There are many good books in the world, and I enjoy
them for the escape, and for what I learn from them, but there are few whose
worlds I would choose to linger in in the same way...not that I'd want to
live in Middle Earth, really, but there is something fierce and wonderful
about it. But no other storybook characters have I longed to meet as I
would Aslan. Though again, some characters in LOTR come close to that
believability. But, for example, I love the book "Ella Enchanted," but the
characters are just that, characters, not people I would wish to meet,
because they just don't hit me as people outside the covers of the
book...does that make sense?
What does let me know that I am reading something worthwhile is often not so
much joy as sorrow. If I mourn for a character, I know the book has touched
me.
Kristi the Fisherdess
"There does not seem to be much chance of their meeting again in that world
or any other. But if ever they do they will rush together with their hands
held out." - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
>From: "Dan Stanley" <dstanley@zbc.edu>
>Reply-To: thelionscall@yahoogroups.com
>To: thelionscall@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [thelionscall] Joy in Narnia
>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:19:05 -0000
>
>Lewis fell in love with faerie tales at a very early age. His best
>friends were people who he found also loved the myths and faerie tales
>of long ago. What Lewis loved about them most of all was a sense of
>longing that they triggered in him. There is a longing in every human
>that no earthly pleasure can satisfy. The enchantment of those faerie
>tales intensified that longing in Lewis. His word for that longing
>was "joy". Lewis wanted to reproduce that feeling of joy for others in
>the Narnia books. And I'd say he succeeded.
>
>Have you ever felt that joy while reading the Narnia stories? The
>longing to be in Narnia is just a part of it. The stories never
>completely satisfy. We are left longing for more of Narnia, more
>adventure, and more of Aslan.
>
>
>
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