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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Even if I really like all of Narnia's books, I think for now this one is my favorite! I love the oriental setting. And I loved seeing Susan, Edmund and Lucy as King and Queens. I really enjoyed the characters Shasta and Aravis and Bree too!
Very hard to complete this one, the final part was better though
adventurous
funny
inspiring
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
I thought it was very good. I’m quite sad that it ended. But it all wrapped up quite nicely.
adventurous
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
"Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah"
"I'll never be able to say that. Can I call you Bree?"
And from that moment on the horse is just "Bree", even in narration, even when meeting new people. He has remembered his name all these years even though he never could tell it to anyone, and the very first person he tells (a white little boy) dismisses him and shortens his name to just Bree. Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah honestly feels like a name Lewis gave the horse as an intentionally "ridiculous" name with no intention of ever actually using it. The horse comments that Shasta's name is actually hard to pronounce, but he never attempts to shorten or change it.
Lots of reviews point out racism throughout this story, but the name change particularly struck me, because Shasta/Cor does it without thinking twice about it and has no awareness he has even done anything wrong in much the same way that a white person could read this story just glazing over the racism without acknowledging it.
I wouldn't recommend this book. I don't know how racist the other books are, but you can easily skip this book without missing any important plot at all.
"I'll never be able to say that. Can I call you Bree?"
And from that moment on the horse is just "Bree", even in narration, even when meeting new people. He has remembered his name all these years even though he never could tell it to anyone, and the very first person he tells (a white little boy) dismisses him and shortens his name to just Bree. Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah honestly feels like a name Lewis gave the horse as an intentionally "ridiculous" name with no intention of ever actually using it. The horse comments that Shasta's name is actually hard to pronounce, but he never attempts to shorten or change it.
Lots of reviews point out racism throughout this story, but the name change particularly struck me, because Shasta/Cor does it without thinking twice about it and has no awareness he has even done anything wrong in much the same way that a white person could read this story just glazing over the racism without acknowledging it.
I wouldn't recommend this book. I don't know how racist the other books are, but you can easily skip this book without missing any important plot at all.
some books become better with time. this is one of them. this third re reading made me appreciate the story more. I know how people complain about Lewis being a racist and maybe he is but I see an English man writing as an English man. if you read English literature you will see that the countries of middle east were seen as the exotic barbarian horizon that inspired the English. Lewis writes based on the views of his time and still he does create some likeable characters from these new places. furthermore, we see the Narnians being thought as barbarians too. actually the word barbarian, a Greek word, used to mean foreign. it is with the centuries that its meaning acquired this negative meaning.