by A#minor » February 6th, 2006, 2:20 am
You ought to do your own homework, but I'll tell you what fascinates me about Lewis' writing.
I think that what children (and adults) find so engaging in CON is that it doesn't throw the moral in their face; it makes them want a moral and find it for themselves.
It doesn't tell you what to feel about a character; it makes you feel it.
His stories tell themselves and then let you decide how to accept them. Not like some stories that insist on being loved or take great pains to be thought interesting, and only end up being boring and unmoving.
"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton