LWW Chapter 3
In chapter 3, Lucy, who has just tumbled out of the wardrobe after returning from Narnia, finds the others and tells them her tale, only to have them disbelieve her. After they examine the wardrobe and find that it appears perfectly ordinary, the others, especially Edmund, make her life miserable for several days that ought to have been most enjoyable. On the next rainy day, as they are inside playing hide and seek, Lucy is beginning to doubt her own experience and decides to take one more look in the wardrobe. Hearing footsteps, she jumps in to hide, and Edmund, seeing her go in, jumps in after her. He finds that he is in Narnia, and shouts out an apology, but Lucy is nowhere to be found. As Edmund is preparing to return home, the White Witch herself rides up in a sledge pulled by small, white reindeer, and driven by a dwarf. Edmund notices that, though she is beautiful, her skin is pure white and her look is proud and stern. She begins to question him about what kind of creature he is.
In this chapter, we get a bit more of a feel of Edmund's nastiness. He describes Lucy as "batty" when she tells her tale of Narnia, and in his spite he makes her life miserable by teasing her about her story. After he gets into Narnia, he reluctantly calls out an apology, but when he cannot find Lucy, begins to blame her rather than himself for the situation.
We find that Lucy has the courage and determination to stick to her story. She knows it to be true, even when the others do not believe her and she can produce no evidence to support her experience. She refuses to yield under taunting and pressure, even though it makes her own life miserable.
We also see enough evidence to learn that the entrance to Narnia through the wardrobe is not there all the time. Specifically, you can get into Narnia that way only when you are not trying to, when you are thinking about something else as you enter the wardrobe. If you are trying to use the wardrobe to get to Narnia, you cannot.
Another fact that appears is that Narnian time runs in a different way than earth time. Lucy had been in Narnia for "hours and hours," but she got back only a moment after, or perhaps at the same time as, she left.
There are no obvious Christian references in this chapter. Perhaps the closest is the portrayal of sin through Edmund's nastiness to Lucy, and his attempt to place the blame on her, even when she turns out to have been right. We also see how sin can break relationships and spoil good times.
In this chapter, we get a bit more of a feel of Edmund's nastiness. He describes Lucy as "batty" when she tells her tale of Narnia, and in his spite he makes her life miserable by teasing her about her story. After he gets into Narnia, he reluctantly calls out an apology, but when he cannot find Lucy, begins to blame her rather than himself for the situation.
We find that Lucy has the courage and determination to stick to her story. She knows it to be true, even when the others do not believe her and she can produce no evidence to support her experience. She refuses to yield under taunting and pressure, even though it makes her own life miserable.
We also see enough evidence to learn that the entrance to Narnia through the wardrobe is not there all the time. Specifically, you can get into Narnia that way only when you are not trying to, when you are thinking about something else as you enter the wardrobe. If you are trying to use the wardrobe to get to Narnia, you cannot.
Another fact that appears is that Narnian time runs in a different way than earth time. Lucy had been in Narnia for "hours and hours," but she got back only a moment after, or perhaps at the same time as, she left.
There are no obvious Christian references in this chapter. Perhaps the closest is the portrayal of sin through Edmund's nastiness to Lucy, and his attempt to place the blame on her, even when she turns out to have been right. We also see how sin can break relationships and spoil good times.
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