Thursday, October 27, 2016

Setting

     As I've been reading Prince Caspian by C.S Lewis there has been two different settings. In the first couple of pages the children are ready to go back to school in a train station. "It was an empty, sleepy, country station and there was hardly anyone on the platform except themselves."Not only does the author do a good job of explaining the scenery but he sets the mood while doing so. The children are gloomy and sad that the holidays are over and they must go their separate ways back to school. All of a sudden they are sucked into a portal and ended up on an island. "... after a few steps they found themselves at the edge of the wood, looking down on a sandy beach, a few yards a way a calm sea was falling on the sand with such tiny ripples... there was no land in sight nor a cloud in the sky." Soon they realize that they have returned to Narnia, the land they once ruled but it wasn't as they remembered... at all. They begun to explore a bit just to find the same stuff all around the island "The wood was so think and tangled that they could hardly see into it at all, nothing was moving at all, not a bird nor insect." Soon Lucy realizes theres land within swimming distance, it looks covered in the same dense forest.

Title 

   This semester I will be reading the book Prince Caspian, in this blog I would like to talk about the title of the book. The title Prince Caspian is very straight forward, when I think about the title I instantly think about medieval times in England. Back then there was kings, queens, princesses and of course a prince. I think os sword fights and armored animals in battle. Unfortunately my book did not come with an illustration.  http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Prince-Caspian-The-Chronicles-of-Narnia-Book-2 There is a link with some very good reviews of the book, hopefully I enjoy it as much as these people did.