The Lion, The Witch and WardrobeBy : Group 3

C.S Lewis( Author)• Born: November 29, 1898, Belfast, United

Kingdom• Died: November 22, 1963, Oxford, United

Kingdom

Four Main Characters• Lucy Pevensie – Georgie Henley• Peter Pevensie - William Mosley • Edmund Pevensie - Skandar Keynes• Susan Pevensie – Anna Popplewell

Lucy Pevensie • The youngest Pevensie is cheerful, kind

and happy-go-lucky girl is the first of the children to venture into Narnia.

• Santa Claus gives Lucy a cordial, which she can use for healing the wounded in a battle with the witch’s troops.

• She is known as Queen Lucy the valiant.

Peter Pevensie • Peter is the oldest Pevensie of all children

and he is noble and courageous. He matures into a young teenage in the first few days of Narnia.

• He immediately proves himself after protecting Susan from a ferocious animal.

• He is called the High King of Narnia.

Edmund Pevensie• Edmund is fair-minded and brave, and he

just as admirable as Peter in the first half of the movie.

• But in the second half , Edmund befriended with the White Witch and betrayed all his siblings.

Character analysis of the other characters

White Witch• This evil queen of Narnia places a spell on

the land so that it is winter and never summer or Christmas. She produces the Turkish delights that enslaves Edmund and makes him greedy.

• The witch and embodiment of evil could represent Satan. The witch claims the throne of Narnia by Brute force.

Tumnus • Lucy meets Tumnus a faun, on her first

excursion into Narnia. He initially intends to kidnap her to the white witch. Tumnus spares her life.

• Tumnus and Lucy became fast friends once it is settled that he is not going to capture her.

Beavers • Mr. Beaver: is Tumnus’s friend and he aids

the Pevensie children for petrified faun. He introduces the children to Santa Claus, and intimately brings them to the stone table and to Aslan.

• Mrs. Beaver: is very kind, good natured motherly and a good cook.

Point of view

Point of view in fiction• First person: I, me, myself, we• Second person: you, your, yourself• Third person: he, she, it 1. Objective 2. Limited 3. Omniscient

First person• One of the strong character serves as the

narrator and readers watch the story, unfold through the characters eyes.

• First person’s point of view is easy to understand.

• The character/narrator speaks to readers in his/her own voice, frequently using the pronoun.

Examples • Moses violently fought with Mega Dinotron

• I heard Mega Dinotron lived alone up the hill.

Second person• Is relatively rare, makes the reader a

character in the story and directly addresses reader as you.

• Eg – “Choose your adventure!” series of 1980s and 1990s. Features make the second person point of view and allows the readers to make decisions the affect the storys plot and leads to various outcomes.

Third person• The narrator is someone outside the story,

who frequently uses pronouns like he, she and they its to describe the characters.

• Subcatorgies:-Objective Limited Omniscient

Objective • The number knows or reveals nothing

about the characters internal thoughts, feelings and motivations but sticks to the external facts of the story.

Limited • The narrator describes the internal

thoughts, feelings and motivations of one characters, usually the main characters.

Omniscient • The narrator knows and at least partially

reveals the internal thoughts, feelings and motivations of all characters.