BOOK REPORT IN ENGLISH

TITLE: THE MAGICIANS NEPHEW

SERIES: THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

AUTHOR: C.S LEWIS

PUBLISHER: THE BODLEY HEAD

PUBLISHING DATE: MAY 2, 1955

PAGES: 183 pp

SETTING/S:

- The story takes place in the late 19th century in London (in the first and later part of the
story)
- In the magical world of NARNIA (during its beginning years)

CHARACTERS:

DIGORY KIRKE the main protagonist in the story and the one who is described by
the title. He lives in London, England with his aunt and uncle.
POLLY PLUMMER - Polly Plummer is a sensitive, demanding, and intelligent girl. She
also lives in London, England with her parents and siblings. She is timid and isn't the
most confident with her decisions. She has great self-discipline and an attitude of her
own.
ANDREW KETTERLEY - Digory's uncle, a minor magician.
JADIS Jadis is an evil witch and queen from the mythical world of Charn. She was put
ina deep sleep for a while. But she awoke she still had a fervor for evil sorcery. Jadis is
selfish and stubborn with anyone she meets.
ASLAN the founder of Narnia.

PLOT:
this story, which takes place in the late nineteenth century in London, two children, Polly and
Digory, are sent out of this world by Digory's evil Uncle Andrew. Digory is in London because
his mother is dying. Uncle Andrew is an arrogant visionary who believes that the rules of
morality do not apply to him. He has made two types of rings from magic dust, one he thinks
will send the children to another world and one will bring them back from that world. He tricks
Polly into touching the yellow ring whereupon she vanishes; then he tells Digory about the green
rings which he believes will bring them back and shames Digory into going to rescue Polly.

Polly and Digory soon find out that Uncle Andrew is wrong about the rings. The yellow rings
send them into a wood between the worlds where there are many small ponds of water. Each
pond leads to a different world when one wears the green rings. Digory and Polly decide to
explore one of the other worlds. The wolrd they land in is an old world called Charn. There they
find no living creature until they inadvertantly wake up Jadis, who had been the evil Queen of
Charn. It was she who had spoken the word of magic that killed every living thing on her world.
Now she was anxious to find new worlds to conquor so she forces Digory and Polly to take her
back to their world. There Jadis causes an increasing amount of turmoil, until Polly and Digory
manage to take her, Uncle Andrew, A hansome cab driver, Frank; and his horse, Strawberry all
with them to the wood between the world. Then as they try to escape Jadis, they jump into the
wrong pond and end up in a world of darkness.

Soon they here singing, which the children and the Cabby think is the most beautiful music they
have ever heard. It is Aslan calling Narnia into being. Aslan creates the sky and the sea, the stars
and the moon, the plants and the trees, and the animals, birds and fish. The ground is so new and
growing that when Jadis throws and iron bar she had broken from a lampost in our world, it
grows into a lampost. It is this lampost that the children find in the first Narnia story. Aslan then
comes to the humans. Jadis runs away. Uncle Andrew faints; but the children and Frank the
Cabby are enchanted. Aslan makes Frank the first King of Narnia and brings his wife from our
world to Narnia. He makes Strawberry a flying, talking horse and changes his name from
Strawberry to Fledge. Then to protect the new world from the evil Jadis, Aslan sends Digory on a
quest to get a special apple from a certain tree. Digory gets the apple and after he picks it he sees
that Jadis has already eaten one. She tempts him to eat the apple, saying it will give eternal life.
Digory resists the temptation and brings the apple to Aslan who plants it saying that since the
witch has eaten the apple, she now will loath them. He then gives Digory an apple to take to his
mother which will make her well.
After the children return to our world and give Digory's mother the apple, they plant the seeds
along with the rest of Uncle Andrews rings and magic dust in the yard. The apple grows into a
tree which is later cut down and made into a wardrobe which Digory, who becomes Professor
Kirke, brings to his house in the country. Thus the genesis of all of the Narnia stories is told and
connected. As always it is easy to see the biblical allegory of the story in the creation of Narnia
and in the story of the apple from the Tree of Life. Lewis wrote this story as the sixth in the
series (although in modern collections it is often the first) to tell of Narnia's creation before he
tells of its destruction in his seventh and last Narnia tale, The Last Battle.

MORALS:

- Do not be greedy, especially onto things that are tempting. We might lose track of where
we are suppose to be doing because of those things.
 SUBMITTED BY:

JOHN ANDREI F. ENORME