Book Overview/Opinion
Prince Caspian was a wonderful book and it was defiantly an attention grabber. Between all the sword fights, sneaking into kingdoms, magical animals, and a magical war led by five teenage kids and a talking lion. What gets more interesting then that ? C.S Lewis had me during the fight between Peter and King Miraz. Peter challenged Miraz to a sword fight to the death. Towards the end of the fight C.S threw in a little twist that I did not expect. " Miraz was struck but not by Peter, but face downwards, tripped on a tussock. Peter stepped back waiting for him to rise." Miraz never rose and Glozelle and Sopespian (Miraz's lords) had their own plan in mind. The two of the "leaped into the the lists crying, Treachery! Treachery! Treachery! The Narnian stabbed him in the back while he laid helpless. To arms! To arms, Telmar!" Peter and company had no idea what was happening then all of a sudden he saw Telemarines rushing towards them with their swords drawn. Then Glozelle stabbed Miraz in the back has he was lying still on the ground. "Peter swung to face Sopespian, slashed his legs from under him and, with the same stroke, walloped off his head."
The war had started. Telemarines rushed in anger because they believed their king was wrongfully killed in battle. The Narnians had no choice but to fight back because they knew the Telemarines would not believe the truth. It was a bloody war, both sides losing men and the Narnians were clearly out numbered. They were slowly being pushed back losing each other one by one, It was not looking good. Aslan roared and everyone stopped. Soon the trees started moving and rushing towards the Telemarines. They had no chance against a forrest full of trees ! The Telemarines retreated to the river where the trees could not go. But they were surprised to see the river god who destroyed their bridge. "They turned a little to the right, raced down a steep hill, and found the long Bridge of Beruna in front of them. before they began to cross it, however, up out of the water came a great wet, bearded head, larger then a man's, crowned with rushes...." The Telemarines surrendered and the Narnians helped them out of the water.
The entire book was interesting but those specific two parts happening back to back really got me into the ending of the book. C.S used such detail, you feel like you're actually there. I would recommend this book to others, for sure. I'm sure tons of my classmates saw The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, a very popular movie. Prince Caspian is the follow up story of that. Reader who enjoy a good story, with sword fights and battles and tons of mystical creatures would love this book. One weakness of the book that kind of ruined for me (just a little). C.S Lewis tries to pushes christianity at you . The idea of Aslan being the saver, Jesus Christ like figure. When i read, I like to escape the real world and all the problems we have today. That aspect of the book annoyed me a little.https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/72/e7/04/72e70467cbe7685b1ff1631c97d47da0.jpg
Nice, Joe! I'm happy that you have enjoyed your free-read this semester despite the part of C.S. Lewis' writing that somewhat annoyed you.
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