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Narnia the last battle book5/19/2023 One of the strangest features of The Last Battle, in a twist reminiscent of Charles Williams, is that all the principal characters from our world who come into Narnia are already dead as a result of a train accident. Lewis by Colin Duriez, the character's deaths are mentioned: But regarding the train wreck specifically: Did Lewis ever confirm the exact inspiration behind it, or comment on it at all?Īccording to this post on a Narnia community forum, the idea may have been from the devastating Harrow and Wealdstone train crash that occurred just four years before The Last Battle was published. It's fairly obvious that Lewis, who uses a lot of symbolism and metaphor in the series, wrote this to describe death in the physical world leading to the afterlife in heaven. The dream is ended: this is the morning." The term is over: the holidays have begun. "Your father and mother and all of you are-as you used to call it in the Shadowlands-dead. "There was a real railway accident," said Aslan softly. And I remember thinking how funny it was that our people were probably in the same train though Lucy didn't know about it-" I remember thinking it was taking the bend far too fast. "Edmund and I were standing on the platform and we saw your train coming in. In The Last Battle, the main characters of the series arrive in Narnia one last time, having died in a train wreck in England.
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