After reading C.S Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe I was amazed with his perspective on the nature of the world and his transition of it into text for children’s minds to become aware of things like religion and their internal free will, eager to explore the world. C.S Lewis unveils what the powerful human imagination is capable of, laying down not just a vivid setting for his fantasy novel, but an entire world not known by any other human brain but his own. Taking place around the time of the Second World War, CS Lewis casts a spotlight on 4 children from London who were evacuated from their homes following Hitler’s bombing of England. Throughout the novel I couldn’t stop but thinking about the millions of lifeless bodies with bullet holes that surrounded Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. They were living in a society that was fighting and killing for their own internal free will to dream and imagine. (Not to sound like John Lennon) I get the image of a war-torn Europe. Like an image from the book Slaughterhouse-Five, where you have the protagonist Billy Pilgrim go into detail about the cold, harsh weather conditions to the arms and legs of the deceased dangling off trucks. At the time this book was published, our world was faced with the threat of communism. To this day we (the western world) are still at battle with communist nations. We go to war over the idea and as a result we murder and destroy. Communism eliminates all ideas of freedom, religion, and imagination, along with everything else CS Lewis exemplifies in his novel. We kill over the prevention of spreading government beliefs in areas that aren’t even remotely close to our motherland in the western world. The White Witch, who displays a lot of the same Characteristics as Adolf Hitler, paints an image for Children to help fully understand the corruption and depraved actions caused by this German mad man. It feels like CS Lewis wrote the Lion, The Wit