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Re: The Lion, the Witch and the Warpers
by Schizo on Jul 31, 2001 - 10:13 AM
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I think if they try to remove the "religious" tones of the books, they will leave nothing but a bare husk. The beauty of the books isn't the unicorns and lions and adventures and talking animals, the beauty is the way truth and courage and maturity are presented, not as lessons artificially inserted, but as part of the life and breath of plot and characters. Lewis doesn't tell you to learn these things, but he shows his characters learning these things. He shows it through a powerful Christian analogy, yes, but if you remove the analogy, you remove the character's growth, and it all just becomes another set of battles and adventures. There is no life. It is left a dry and dusty shell, a husk. I predict that children will not like the new versions. Some parents may, seduced by the political correctness of the move, but the children will tell the difference between a living narrative and a carefully fabricated replica.
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