Winter Day Lewis Transformation

Just like people and feelings can transform, so can everything else. Take the changing of winter to summer as an example. Everyone in the Western Woods were waiting for the day that the Sons of Adam (Peter and Edmund), The Daughters of Eve (Susan and Lucy) as well as Aslan to come and speed up the Eternal Winter and make it Christmas. Within the Western Woods, there was always winter but no Christmas, and the Witch would never allow that as long as she lived to prevent it. Even Father Christmas was powerless against the winter. However, the season was able to change within the blink of an eye thanks to the arrival of Aslan. When the children see that the winter is ending, they are able to gather that the WItch’s spell was wearing off and that it was

What Lewis writes to show this is, “They had been just as surprised as Edmund when they saw the winter vanishing and the whole wood passing in a few hours or so from January to May. They hadn't even known for certain (as the Witch did) that this was what would happen when Aslan came to Narnia. But they all knew that it was her spells which had produced the endless winter; and therefore they all knew when this magic spring began that something had gone wrong, and badly wrong, with the Witch's schemes.” (Lewis, pg. 167) Now, when you think about how most books go when there is magic involved, there is always something or someone that is able to break the magic and restore everything to normal. In The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe’s case, it was both the children and Aslan who arrived in Narnia to break the curse. Just by having someone show up, everything can change and nothing can change at all. Lewis had people of both in his life. The Inklings, the people who were able to change everything and the people who only liked him because he was a