First Draft of Appreciation

           When you first see a books that looks interesting, what do you look at? The cover, and in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe there is a lion with two kids on his back. Not very specific and doesn't tell you what the book is about. What do you look at next even if there is a nice cover that kinda tips you off on what the book is about, you look for the blurb. There is no blurb in on the back cover or front flap, so that means that you are forced to start reading a book that you have basically no clue about.
            From the first page of Narnia to the last you are as close to being stuck in a reading warp as possible, where you can’t stop reading and the only movement in your body is your eyes blinking and your heart beating. The pictures in the book are extremely descriptive and they really help the reader visualize the situation and the setting of the story. When Aslan is being killed the illustrator  draws the scene exactly as C.S Lewis describes it. All the monsters you'd see in a freak show are there. Cyclops etc...           
           The book begins with the introduction of what Edmund, Susan, Peter, and Lucy Pevensie are going through. It is the middle of World War II and they are forced to move to a suburb of London for the time being due to the Nazi bomb raids of London. They move in with a old professor who owns an enormous house, and while playing hide and seek, Lucy discovers a wardrobe which is a portal to Narnia. That is the end of boredom and loneliness for the Pevensies. At first, Lucy's older siblings don't believe her, until Edmund enters the wardrobe to Narnia and apologizes to Lucy for not believing her and they force Peter and Susan to Narnia. Turns out that there is a prophecy that four humans, two boys and two girls, that would end the reign of the evil leader the White Witch. The Pevenisies eventually join forces with Aslan (The true king of Narnia) and his rebellion and defeat The White Witch and restore freedom to Narnia.  
         When the world was introduced to Narnia in 1950, it was the first time the world had read a book of this type. By that, I’m saying that no author had ever brought the genre of fantasy to Narnia’s kind of level. It teaches kids that evil is not the way and teaches that in a way of bringing up witchcraft and evil. Narnia was actually the first real fantasy that the world had ever read. No book moral had ever been as complex and controversial as Narnia's. 
         I find it disgraceful that libraries and schools have banned the reading and use of reading any Narnia book. Libraries say that there is too much gore and witchcraft for people to read about. Reading Narnia should be like a privilege to these people, and isn’t it a library’s role in community to provide the community with the joy of reading and give all of the community’s people the opportunity to read ALL BOOKS! To fulfill the true meaning of reading, you have to read The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe.