The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis, is
one of the most moving and exciting books I have ever read.
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their unpleasant
cousin Eustace, are transported through a painting of a ship
from England to another world called Narnia, which
Edmund and Lucy had visited before. They land in the sea
and are taken up onto a Narnian ship, where Edmund and
Lucy find their old friend Caspian, who is now King of
Narnia. The three children accompany the ship and its crew
on their quest through the unknown eastern seas. Caspian is
seeking the seven Narnian lords who were exiled years
before by his evil uncle, and also seeking to find the eastern
edge of the world. The group undergoes many adventures
and hardships on the islands they encounter on their quest.
They do eventually find all of the missing lords, or discover
how they died, and also find the end of the world. While the
novel is an exciting story, it is also more than that. The ideas
of faith and redemption are all through the story, making
me feel that in a way the events of the story are tied in to
real life.
Edmund and Lucy always have faith in Aslan, a great
talking lion who represents Jesus Christ in the Narnia
stories. For example, Lucy is afraid to go into the mysterious
magician’s mansion on one of the islands, but she has to in
order to find and say the spell that will make the
Dufflepuds, the invisible inhabitants of the island, visible
again. She trusts Aslan to take care of her and help her, and
even sees Aslan and talks with him in the mansion when she
needs him most.
At the end of the story, the children and a few of the
others meet Aslan in person at the end of the world, which
turns out to be the entrance to Aslan’s country, like heaven.
He sends Lucy and Edmund back to their own world, telling
them they will never come back to Narnia. When they are
upset and protest about never seeing him again, he tells
them that they will get to know him by another name in
their own world.
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