Memories of life

Today, my dad brought me to watch Chronicles of Narnia. Its an amazing show. I really enjoy it. Here is the summary below:

While standing on a train station in 1941, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are magically whisked away to a beach near an old and ruined castle. They soon discover that the ruins are Cair Paravel, where they once ruled as the Kings and Queens of Narnia. After Susan discovers a chess knight, Peter soon realizes that they are in Cair Paravel and convinces the others of the same. They explore downstairs and find Susan’s bow and arrows and Lucy’s bottle of magical cordial. The horn that can call Aslan is not there, however, for Susan left it in the woods the day they returned to England after their first visit to Narnia. Peter finds his shield and royal sword Rhindon. Although only a year has passed in their world, 1300 years have passed in Narnia. Edmund figures out the time problem, suggesting that Narnian time operates differently than earth time and that hundreds of years of Narnian could well have passed since the one year of England time had elapsed.

Then they hear a boat coming down the river with a bundle that moves. Susan strikes one of them on the helmet with an arrow, and both jump into the water and head for the far shore. Peter and Susan plunge into the water and rescue the boat and its bundle. It is a Dwarf. After offering him some apples, they listen to his story. He tells the legend of ghosts in the ruins of Cair Paravel, explaining why the two soldiers fled. The Dwarf helps them catch fish and cook them. Then they exchange stories. The Dwarf is a messenger of King Caspian the Tenth. Trumpkin, a dwarf whom they rescue from being drowning, tells them the sad tale: During their absence, a race of men called Telmarines have invaded Narnia, driving the Talking Beasts into the wilderness and pushing even their memory underground. Narnia now is ruled by King Miraz, a cruel despot, with his wife Queen Prunaprismia.

Miraz is also a usurper, having killed his brother, King Caspian IX, to take the throne. His nephew, Prince Caspian, is initially ignorant of his uncle’s evil deeds, but learns the truth, and also learns about Old (pre-Telmarine) Narnia, first from his Nurse and later from Doctor Cornelius, his tutor. Unknown to Miraz, Cornelius is part Dwarf and part human and also tells the stories of old Narnia to Caspian. He especially tells much of the story in the middle of the night, on the roof of the Great Tower, when the planets Tarva and Alambil pass within one degree of each other. Cornelius tells Caspian that the story about ghosts at Cair Paravel was invented by the Telmarines because the fear the sea, never forgetting that Aslan came from over the sea in all the stories.

Miraz is childless and is thus willing for Caspian to be his heir, but when the Queen has a son, Cornelius warns Caspian that his life is now in danger. Before he leeaves, Cornelius gives Caspian Queen Susan’s horn with instructions to use it only at the point of his greatest need. Caspian escapes on his horse Destrier. After a long ride and a long sleep, Caspian begins to ride again. The weather gets stormy, and Destrier bolts. Caspian hits his head on a branch and is knocked unconscious. He awakes in the den of a badger, Trufflehunter, and two dwarfs, Nikabrik and Trumpkin. Nikabrik wants to kill Caspian, but the other two won’t allow it. Caspian tells them his story, and they want him as their king.

The badger and Dwarfs take Caspian to meet many creatures of Old Narnia. They first meet the Three Bulgy Bears, the Pattertwig the squirrel, then the Seven Brothers of the Shuddering Wood (Dwarfs work a smithy; they give Caspian a mail shirt, helmet, and sword), and the five Black Dwarfs. They inform them of a council at midnight three nights ahead on Dancing Lawn. Pattertwig takes the message to many others. Then they meet Glenstorm, the Centaur (also a prophet and a star gazer), and his three sons, who suggest that the council at Dancing Lawn must be a council of war. Next they meet Reepicheep the foot tall mouse and receive his assurance of the help of twelve mice. They also meet Clodsley the Mole, the three Hardbiters (badgers), Camillo the Hare, and Hogglestock the Hedgehog. They dream about waking up the trees, but the Dryads and Naiads have sunk into a deep sleep. Finally they meet fauns, dozens of them, including Mentius and Obentinus, Dumnus, Voluns and Voltinus, Girbius and Nimienus, Nausas and Oscuns, all sent by Pattertwig.

They gather for the council, when Camillo says there is a Man coming. It turns out to be Doctor Cornelius, who had used magic to find them. He says that King Miraz is coming with his army and they should flee to Aslan’s How and the Great Woods near Cair Paravel. But Miraz arrives there shortly after they do, and various skirmishes characterize the next few days with Caspian’s forces gradually losing. In another council inside Aslan’s How, which had been built over the Stone Table in years past, they discuss whether or not to use Queen Susan’s horn. Cornelius thinks it more likely to bring King Peter and company than to bring Aslan. Then they dispatch Pattertwig to Lantern Waste and Trumpkin to Cair Paravel to discover the results of the blowing of the horn.

The children realize that the horn summoned them the day before. Trumpkin tells how he was caught, trying to take a shortcut to Cair Paravel to discover whom the horn might have brought. They outfit the Dwarf in mail and weapons, then challenge him to a sword fight and a bow and arrow contest. The Dwarf loses both contests, first to Edmund and then to Susan. His estimate of the four children improves greatly thereafter. Having heard the story, the true Kings and Queens of Narnia try to make their way to the battlefield.

They decide to save time by travelling by water and going up Glasswater Creek. Unable to sleep that night, Lucy tries to talk to the trees. They rustle but do not awaken. Finally she goes to sleep. The next morning they begin again. A grey bear attacks, but they kill it with arrows. They take some of the meat to eat later. After some time they realize they are lost. They decide to go down the ravine until it meets the river and then travel up the river. Lucy sees Aslan and wants to continue in his direction, but they ignore her. But the journey is long and hard, and the children lose their way.

Finally they reach the Great River. Suddenly arrows whizz past them, and they fall to the ground and crawl away. They have to return up the gorge from whence they came. After some distance, they light a fire and cook the bear meat. Then they sleep. In the night Aslan calls Lucy. She sees the trees moving and then she sees Aslan. He tells her that it was her fault for the detour. He instructs her to go back, awaken the others, and insist that they follow her, who would be following Aslan. She does.

They finally agree to follow Lucy in the middle of the night, and gradually, as they obey, they begin to see Aslan’s shadow, then Aslan himself. Susan apologizes in another moment of confession. Aslan finally stopps, and the others catch up. Aslan says, “And now, where is this little Dwarf, this famous swordsman and archer, who doesn’t believe in lions?” Aslan gives Trumpkin a toss in the air and a shake. Peter, Edmund, and Trumpkin are to head to the mound. The girls see the woods come alive and dance with Aslan, including Bacchus and Silenus.

Peter, Edmund, and Trumpkin enter Aslan’s How and decide to listen at the door to the conversation. Nikabrik has brought two friends, one Hag a witch and the other a Wer-Wolf, trying to convince Caspian, Cornelius, and Trufflehunter to ally themselves with the powers of evil against Miraz. A fight ensues, and Nikabrik and his two friends are slain.

Peter decides to send a challenge to fight Miraz in single combat. Edmund, with Glenstorm and the giant along, delivers the challenge. Miraz accepts, in part because his two lords, Glozelle and Sopespian, egg him on. Peter picks his Marshals of the List for the fight—a Bulgy Bear, Giant Wimbleweather, and the Centaur Glenstorm.

The fight begins around two o’clock. They fight for a while and then take a rest. Peter’s left wrist is sprained, so they bind it tightly. Peter des better in the next fight until Miraz trips on a tussock. Peter steps back, waiting for him to rise, but the Lords Glozelle and Sopespian stab Miraz, claiming treachery by the Narnians, and initiate the full scale fight. After a short time, the Wood enters the fight and end it soon. Early that morning Aslan, Lucy, and Susan had freed the river-god from the bridge at Beruna, children from school, a boy for a man who was beating him, and others, including Caspian’s old nurse, who had been ill and near death.

When Aslan arrives at the battle, the Telmarine soldiers surrender. Lucy uses her cordial bottle to heal Reepicheep, and Aslan restores Reepicheep’s tail, in payment for their having eaten away the cords that had bound him on the stone table long ago. The Telmarines are locked up at Beruna. Aslan and company celebrate. The next day messengers go throughout the country with an offer to allow people to go to another home if they do not wish to follow Caspian as King and live in a Narnia on equal terms with Talking Beasts and Dwarfs and Dryads and Fauns. Aslan tells the Telmarines of their true origin, from the world of men, where their ancestors were pirates in the South Seas who fell through a gap between worlds. About half of them accept the offer and arrive at the Fords of Beruna on the fifth day.

Aslan has set up two stakes of wood with a third piece uniting them on top. Peter, Aslan, and Caspian stand in front of the “door.” Peter and Susan are told by Aslan that they will never return to Narnia. Peter tells the others he can cope with this as “it’s all a bit different from what I thought.” Though fearful that the doorway is a way of execution, one of the Telmarine soldiers advances and goes through the door and disappears. Then, to allay fears, Peter and the rest of the children go through the doorway, knowing that Peter and Susan will not be allowed to return to Narnia again. They arrive back at the railway station, Edmund without his new flashlight which he left in Narnia.

In this story, like the last one, I’ll like to point out some Christian related parts of the story.

1. There is a part of the story when the country of Narnia is being attacked by Telmarine And the Telmarine is trying to eliminate every Narnians. This part of the story reminds me of the Nazi trying to eliminate all the Jews, Gods people.

2. High king Peter says to his siblings that if he did not see or hear Aslan, he would not believe that he exist here. This part of the story also relate when Jesus was resurrected from death and was claim to be seen by Mary and Thomas did said he will not believe it unless he saw it. Peter and his siblings also represent the 12 disciples of Jesus.

3. Aslan, as we know from the first show, represents God. And he too said that he is also in the “real world” in a different name. Could CS Lewis is trying to hint to the nation?

4. the new Narnia can be seen as a parallel to the modern world, in which old beliefs are scoffed at. “Who believes in Aslan nowadays?” asks Trumpkin when he first meets Caspian. The same as Christianity when people says they don’t believe. Same as other religion too, period.

5. Those who “hold on”, like the badgers, are praised: this links with Lewis’s views on religious faith. Faith is another of the major themes of the book.

Overall, I love this show!!! It’s film at New Zealand, not sure of the London scenery though. Really one meaningful show to me. Especially seeing Lucy and Susan again. Peter is dam shuai!!!! See his pic below!!!

SHUAI!!!!