Narnia

In many books there are stories of how the world was created and of how it will end. I am going to be taking two authors books and be comparing and contrasting them to how the world began and how it will end. The books I will be comparing and contrasting by C.S. Lewis are: The Last Battle, and The Magicians Nephew. These are about how Narnia began and ended. The other book is by a man named Edith Hamilton. He wrote a book about Greek Mythology.

The Magicians Nephew, which tells of the beginning of Narnia, takes a different approach to how the world was created. In this book Narnia was just pitch black, then Aslan,the lion, came and began to sing. As soon as he started singing, things started coming up from the ground and light started to appear over the horizon. Animals started rising up from the ground like flowers on a spring day. There were forests and gigantic mountains, and animals walking around looking at everything curiously. Aslan then walked up and granted a few animals the ability to talk and understand humans. That was the beginning of Narnia. Through out the years of Narnia’s existence , many adventures happened. There were great battles and many tales. They lived on until the last battle where everything was lost and Narnia was destroyed and took everything along with it.

The day Narnia ended was a very confusing one. Many things were going on at once. There was a battle and a monkey trying to pretend that a donkey was Aslan. The end of Narnia started with a little shack that people were being thrown into and they would disappear. So then Eustace ,Jill, and Tirian all got thrown into the shack were it was believed that Tash was sleeping. They found themselves in a whole different land. They were just looking around when Aslan came up to them and started talking to them. Then they found the kings and queens of the old. Aslan brought them to a door that opened up to Narnia. Aslan walked through the door and all the giants woke up and the people in the sky came down. All the stars in the sky came falling down and then they saw that they were actually people. All the animals of Narnia came rushing towards Aslan and stopped directly in front of him. Any animals that were afraid of him ran away but everybody else stayed. Finally they all went into the door and then a giant reached out and put out the sun with his hand. The whole world was in total darkness and Narnia was no more.

In the book of Greek mythology the world started out as nothing. But it just so happens that two children were born out of nothing. After they were born, love was born out of them, and love created light and light created day. All of life started working together like gears on a clock. There were seasons, night, and day. There was life and death, but the first people on the earth were the children of mother earth and father heaven. They were human but not fully human, they were like monsters. They had the strength to move mountains and create earthquakes. Then came the cyclops, that were as tall as giants, they were so powerful they could destroy mountains.

Narnia and Greek Mythology are both the same because both started as nothing. They both had people on the earth in the beginning. Also they are both not real, they were just made mythological. But they were different because Narnia was created by a lion rather then gods and goddesses. Also the Greeks thought that love created light and the world. It was also different because Narnia had people and talking animals but the Greeks said that there was only people in the world.

In conclusion, these stories beginning and ending were both similar and different. They were similar because they both started out as nothing and both had people on it. This shows that there are many ways different worlds were created and destroyed that people believe.