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The Use Of Summary In C. S. Lewis The Horse And His Boy

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In C.S. Lewis’ “ The Horse and His Boy”, Shasta a peasant boy who has been living in a house as a servant to a fisherman whom he calls father,but has no relation to is suddenly confronted with an urge to escape to the North [Narnia] of his poor little village to save himself from being sold as a slave to a highman from the land of Tarkaan. But Shasta’s repressed character unleashes and causes him to leave home with the highman’s talking horse Bree , another main character from the land of Narnia. This partnership between the boy and his horse led to many events that put Shasta in deep trouble, and exposed to him a world full of unknown evils and new people like Aravis; a young girl, who escapes an arranged marriage …show more content…

Lewis painted a picture of the time between Jesus’ life on the Earth and his arrival stated in the book of Revelations , and discussed in the rapture, using the different lands and people in the novel. Lewis used characters like Aslan [the Great Lion],king and son of the Emperor of all lands who represents the creator , author of nations or symbolically God. Lewis extends the Christian Allegory by incorporating biblical allusion from the very beginning of the novel by the way the fisherman found Shasta. Shasta was found floating down by the river while the fisherman was casting his nets for fish ; this scenario much like in the Bible , when Moses as an infant was also found in a basket floating down the river. Shasta is the symbol of Moses.And throughout the book Shastas qualities and character are reflected as parallel of those that attribute Moses.For example , when Shasta becomes miserable and lost, “Being very tired and having nothing inside him, he felt so sorry for himself that the tears rolled down his cheeks” and Aslan then proceeds to tell him that throughout his trials Aslan has been present ,(aslan reflects Jesus). Aslan explained to him that he desired a better life for Shasta but waited for him to notice Aslan as what he needed , and what protected him from much along the way. Much like Moses realization of the Lord being with him as he made his journey to the mountains and fasted for 40 days,only to find that the Lord has always been with him

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