In “Reading with Patrick,” English teacher Michelle Kuo works with a student in 8th grade and then later after he has killed a man. The story brings up questions about lit’s impact.
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Tag Archives: Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
A Teacher, Lit, & a Jailed Student
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Song of Myself", C. S. Lewis, Frederick Douglass, Gilead, Hansberry (Lorraine), Lorraine Hansberry, Marilynne Robinson, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, poverty, Prison, Raisin in the Sun, Walt Whitman Comments closed
Pullman vs. C. S. Lewis on the Issue of Sin
Philip Pullman loathes C. S. Lewis, despite the many similarities between “The Golden Compass” and the Narnia Chronicles. The reason may be the way handles sinning children.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged C. S. Lewis, Golden Compass, His Dark Materials, Magician's Nephew, Narnia Chronicles, Philip Pullman, Sin, Voyage of the Dawn Treader Comments closed
Aslan and Cecil the Lion’s Death
The death of Cecil the Lion conjures up images of Aslan in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” and of the lion in Ernest Hemingway’s “Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged big game hunting, C. S. Lewis, Cecil the Lion, Ernest Hemingway, hunting, Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Comments closed
Fantasy, Because Reality Is Unsatisfactory
Fantasy is nothing in and of itself but takes its character in opposition to an unsatisfactory reality.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Lady of Shalott", "Lotos Eaters", "Passing of Arthur", Alfred Lord Tennyson, C. S. Lewis, Eve of St. Agnes, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare Comments closed
A John Bunyan Defense of Harry Potter
Given how for years we’ve been witnessing certain evangelical Christians criticizing, banning and occasionally burning the Harry Potter books, what are we to make of their inability to appreciate Harry’s Christ-like sacrifice as the end of “The Deathly Hallows”?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged C. S. Lewis, Christian Right, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling, John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Religion Comments closed
Narnia, Much More than a Sermon
Jason Blake, my Ljubljana colleague, set off an interesting discussion two weeks ago when he wrote a post on on reading nonsense poetry to his daughter. Many readers wrote in about children’s literature, and at one point in the discussion Jason posted a poem by Robert Lewis Stevenson that made a number of us, with […]
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