Notable Moment - The Magician's Nephew

Chapter 9 is the Founding of Narnia. On of my favorite parts of this chapter is when it is describing how the animals are coming into being.

"Can you imagine a stretch of grassy land bubbling like water in a pot? For that is really the best description of what was happening. In all directions it was swelling into humps. They were of very different sizes, some no bigger than mole-hills, some as big as wheelbarrows, two the size of cottages. And the humps moved and swelled till they burst, and the crumbled earth poured out of them, and from each hump there came out an animal."

Lewis then goes on to describe the different animals that came out of the earth. it was everything from dogs and frogs to deer, elephants and panthers. The imagery used in this chapter is amazing. I love how Aslan is creating this world with his voice. The Christian parallels in this chapter are very powerful. As a Christian, the mystery of how the world began is something that is constantly having to be defended to scientific and academic communities. I think that Lewis does a lovely interpretation here of how he imagines it would have been like to witness the beginning of the world.

One of the reasons that I love this part of the book is because of the picture it creates. My favorite is how the deer emerge. "The stags were the queerest to watch, for of course the antlers came up a long time before the rest of them, so at first Digory thought they were trees." The whole scene is just so peaceful and lovely. Exactly how I would think the beginning of the world would be.