Re: Summer Challenge Sharing Thread 2017
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 6:37 am
Chapter 11
I never noticed this before: Jadis berates the little Christmas party for "all this gluttony, this waste, this self-indulgence", but those were the very things in Edmund she had catered to when he first met her. Guess she doesn't like it when she's not the one dishing it out. And - this literally popped into my mind just now - that kinda reminds me of how Satan basically accuses God of bribing Job into loving Him by giving him all sorts of good things, even though the easiest way for Satan to entrap people is to give them something at least seemingly good.
I'm sure Lewis meant pretty well nothing by this, but... the noise of the sledge and its troubles prevented Edmund from hearing a smaller sound. It was only when the sledge halted and the swishing snow stopped and the dwarf's shouts and whipping ended that Edmund could actually hear the first sound of spring. Again, I think this is really more a case of describing things as they would be rather than trying to say anything particularly significant, but maybe it's cause I've heard a couple of sermons recently to this effect: the noise of the world can so easily fill our ears and distract us from the still, small Voice that we'd hear if only we'd stop and listen.
So... where were all the dumb animals of Narnia during the 100 years of winter and when did they start coming back? Lewis mentions a whole bunch of birds singing. Some may have been Talking Birds, but I'm not sure that all of them were, unless the appearance of spring gave them courage to sing so openly while Jadis is stomping by below them.
Chapter 12
I'm gonna cheat on this one and just provide linkage to a fic I wrote... wow, four years ago. It's inspired by the 2005 film's depiction of the short exchange between Aslan and Peter, but it's a bit of a mix of bookverse and movieverse. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9489357/1/Upon-This-Rock (fanfiction.net is not affiliated with TLC; click at your own risk)
I never noticed this before: Jadis berates the little Christmas party for "all this gluttony, this waste, this self-indulgence", but those were the very things in Edmund she had catered to when he first met her. Guess she doesn't like it when she's not the one dishing it out. And - this literally popped into my mind just now - that kinda reminds me of how Satan basically accuses God of bribing Job into loving Him by giving him all sorts of good things, even though the easiest way for Satan to entrap people is to give them something at least seemingly good.
I'm sure Lewis meant pretty well nothing by this, but... the noise of the sledge and its troubles prevented Edmund from hearing a smaller sound. It was only when the sledge halted and the swishing snow stopped and the dwarf's shouts and whipping ended that Edmund could actually hear the first sound of spring. Again, I think this is really more a case of describing things as they would be rather than trying to say anything particularly significant, but maybe it's cause I've heard a couple of sermons recently to this effect: the noise of the world can so easily fill our ears and distract us from the still, small Voice that we'd hear if only we'd stop and listen.
So... where were all the dumb animals of Narnia during the 100 years of winter and when did they start coming back? Lewis mentions a whole bunch of birds singing. Some may have been Talking Birds, but I'm not sure that all of them were, unless the appearance of spring gave them courage to sing so openly while Jadis is stomping by below them.
Chapter 12
I'm gonna cheat on this one and just provide linkage to a fic I wrote... wow, four years ago. It's inspired by the 2005 film's depiction of the short exchange between Aslan and Peter, but it's a bit of a mix of bookverse and movieverse. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9489357/1/Upon-This-Rock (fanfiction.net is not affiliated with TLC; click at your own risk)