Lewis originally titled the novel " Polly and Digory"; his publisher changed it to The Magician's Nephew. [7] This book is dedicated to "the Kilmer family". [8] The Lefay Fragment [ edit ] Curiosity does get the better of her and she asks about Mr. Ketterley (Digory's uncle). Digory explain

I loved the narration of The Magician's Nephew, it's clear, imaginative, and addicting. This book took me book to the time when I was sitting and listening to my grandma's tales. She always told me about folklores. I can still remember the story about there's a ghost hiding in the closet, it made me so scared and never ever wanted to open the closet alone again. Digory and Polly - The Duo: Every set of children from England is so different in The Chronicles of Narnia. Polly and Digory are a far more clinical, studier lot than the children that come after them. They act older and far more self-reliant, as opposed to the more child-like Pevensies. They are far more polite than the liberalized, bad-mannered Pole and Scrubb, nor are they complainers, but put their heads down and do what has to be done. I loved how Lewis showed a very subtle and brilliantly done culture shift through his three sets of British children, and as far as their general tone, Polly and Digs might be my very favorite, because of their no-nonsense, mini-adult charm.The element of the cupboard leading to a new world Lewis proceeded to use in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but the snowy Narnia of that book is quite unlike the balmy Garden of the Hesperides, most of whose major mythological features appear as attributes of the sacred Garden in The Magician's Nephew where it differs from the Biblical or Miltonian Eden. It is set in the far West of the world; it has a watchful guardian; a hero (Digory) is sent, like Hercules, to fetch an apple from it; a female villain (Jadis) steals another of the apples, like Eris. Since the eponymous Hesperides were daughters of Hesperus, the god of the planet Venus in the evening, advocates of the planetary theory adduce this as evidence for a special association between The Magician's Nephew and Venus. [35] Edith Nesbit [ edit ] s that he is very odd, talking of strange things, and even crying out in his secret room upstairs. Polly offers Lewis greatly enjoyed stories of Arthurian legend and wrote poetry about this world. MrsLefay visits Digory in The Lefay Fragment, and becomes Andrew Ketterley's nefarious godmother in the finished novel. She gives Ketterley a box from Atlantis containing the dust from which he constructs the rings Digory and Polly use to travel between worlds. Both Lefays are allusions to Morgan Le Fay, a powerful sorceress in a number of versions of King Arthur's tales, who is often portrayed as evil. The box itself is also evocative of Pandora's box from Greek myth, which also contained dangerous secrets. [38] The Atlantis legend [ edit ] Meanwhile, Strawberry carries Digory and Polly to Aslan. The Lion is still in conference with his chosen Beasts and Digory realizes that he cannot interrupt. At Aslan's command, the animals pull aside and Digory approaches, asking if Aslan would help his mother. Aslan looks away and asks the animals if this is the boy who did it. Aslan then turns to Digory and commands him to explain how the witch came to Narnia. The whole story comes out and Digory is told that he must undo what has been done. Aslan turns to the cabby and Polly. The Lion asks the cabby if he would like to live in Narnia. The cabby is reluctant because he is married and does not want to leave his wife. Through magic, Aslan calls the cabby's wife from the other world and the two are together again. Aslan tells them that they are to be the first King and Queen of Narnia. After a brief outline of the responsibilities of the King, Aslan declares that the coronation will be held soon. Aslan asks Polly if she has forgiven Digory for the harm he had done in Charn, and she says that she has. Satisfied, Aslan turns to deal with Digory himself.

Y es que sí, C.S. Lewis, todos tenemos necesidades fisiológicas. Pero dado el contexto y la fértil etapa de rebosante vida primigenia en que se encontraba Narnia durante aquel momento, me dejarás con la eterna duda de que si efectivamente, ¿habrá crecido allí un árbol de caca posterior a esto? One day, Polly Plummer, a young girl living in a London row house, is surprised to meet a young boy, Digory, who’s moved in next door. He’s living with his old, unmarried aunt and uncle, the Ketterleys, because his mother is dying and his father is away in India. The two children speculate about Digory’s “mad” Uncle Andrew and Andrew’s mysterious study. Polly and Digory become friends and spend the summer exploring the interconnected attics of the row houses.

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El sobrino del mago en su totalidad es una lectura muy amena, simpática y ligera, que fluye con un excelente y atrapante buen ritmo, gracias a la narrativa de su autor, la cual se aleja de incluir contenido e información que estén demás. Es una novela sumamente amigable y siempre va al grano con lo justo y necesario, lo que hace que sea una obra muy precisa. Puede que, en algunos momentos muy puntuales, haya uno que otro diálogo que pareciera ser el de un role play o algo así, pero no es lo habitual y se le perdona. Once, The Magician’s Nephew was only three stars. It used to frighten me. It was different from the other Narnia books. But there were parts of it I liked very much and I tolerated the rest of it because it is, after all, Narnia. In the light of the sun, the strangers could see the landscape, barren and devoid of life. Most important, they could all see the singer - a Lion. The witch demands that the magic be prepared so they can take flight. Andrew mentions that he wishes he were younger and had a gun. Andrew commands the children to put on their yellow rings. The children declare that if anyone comes near them, they will disappear. The cabby commands them all to be quiet and listen, for the Lion's song had changed. Jadis: Empress of Charn, who becomes the White Witch appearing in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Fourth 'Chronicles of Narnia' Movie in Works From Mark Gordon Co". Deadline. 1 October 2013 . Retrieved 4 October 2014.

The book was appropriate for children, but I also enjoyed it as an adult. The book had me laughing quite a few times. It also has some deeper meanings and provides some very good food for thought. Jonathan has been thinking more about Narnia, and yesterday he had an interesting question. Aslan's superpower is that he can make bad people into good people, as you see with Edmund and Eustace. So why can't he make the White Witch into a good person? It would seem like a much easier solution. This book literally made me feel like that. I kept wondering why I did and figured out because of its voice that was very classic and magical that I didn't want it to be over. Besides the fun I get from this book, The Magician's Nephew is alike a doctrine as if I was reading the Bible. There seems to be, at the heart of Lewis' works, a desperate pride, a desperate sense that we do know, even when we think we don't, even when Lewis shows us a hundred examples where we couldn't possibly know. But that is the crux of the fundamental paradox around which Lewis inevitably frames his stories, the paradox which defines his life, his philosophies, and the impetus for his conversion. Sammons, Martha C. (2004). A Guide Through Narnia. Regent College Publishing. pp.128–9. ISBN 1-57383-308-8.When Jadis threatens the crowd, Polly and Digory grab her and put on their rings to take her out of their world–along with Uncle Andrew, Frank the cab-driver, and Frank's horse, Strawberry, who were all touching each other when the children grabbed their rings. In the Wood between the Worlds, Strawberry, looking to drink from one of the ponds, accidentally brings everyone into another world: a dark, empty void. At first, Digory believes it to be Charn, but Jadis recognises it as a world not yet created. They then all witness the creation of a new world by the lion Aslan, who brings stars, plants, and animals into existence as he sings. Jadis, as terrified by his singing as the others are attracted to it, tries to kill Aslan with the iron rod; but it rebounds harmlessly off him, and in the creative soil of the new world it sprouts into a growing lamp-post. Jadis flees in terror. Asimismo, hubo algo que llamó sobremanera mi atención, y es que, por más posible e hipotética intención de manipulación tentativa que haya habido por parte de Jadis, para evidente y posiblemente hacer caer a Digory, es raro que una mujer adulta le diga y proponga esto a un niño: ‘’¿Sabes qué es esa fruta? Te lo diré. Es la manzana de la juventud, la manzana de la vida. Lo sé porque la he probado; y noto ya esos cambios en mí misma que sé que jamás envejeceré ni moriré. Cómetela, muchacho, cómetela; y tú y yo viviremos para siempre y seremos el rey y la reina de todo este mundo..., o de tu mundo, si decidimos regresar allí’’.