Have you read Book I
of the Narnia Series? Well, I just finished reading Book Two of the
C.S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and I
must say, it has captivated and motivated me to read the whole series
now more than ever. We all have seen the movie in the past with all its
fantastic special effects and computer graphics. But having read it at
this time gave me a whole different view to it (or perhaps, I just
didn't see it before). I know in the movie, the death and resurrection
of Aslan sort of conveyed a "Christian" point of view to it, pertaining
to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, as I went
through the details of the story, it really depicted A LOT of
Christ-like behavior and scenes as told in The New Testament of the
Catholic Bible. Like the time when Aslan was in deep sorrow prior to his
captivity, letting the daughters of Eve (Susan and Lucy) come with him
the night before his death but only up to a certain point, afterwhich,
he was left alone (felt like the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane); and
that time when Aslan willingly surrendered himself to the White Witch
(like when Jesus willingly surrendered himself to the Roman soldiers);
and when the Stone Table was broken signaling Aslan's resurrection (same
way the stone door of Jesus' tomb opened on the day he resurrected);
and lastly, how about the feast they had right after the battle... where
did all the food and drinks come from? Didn't it portray some of Jesus'
miracles like the feeding of people with bread and fish and the miracle
of the wine? Hmmm...
