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#28 The Silver Chair

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Is There a Need for Humour in Amnania?

Lewis is in effect a depicting this encounter as er almost something like the woman at the well in john chapter four were and there's a surprisingly honest dialogue between them. Why do you think aslan evokes such honesty in jill? Straightway. So when he asks why she was playing so near the edge, she's really honest and says, i was showing off,. Is that something that lowis is keen to tell us about? I mean, what does he want us to take from that? Well? Lewis may just have felt he needed to soften the tone or make it easier to read at this point. There's lots of elements in this story that are pretty dark, pretty scary

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