"Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed" (Lewis 36). On the list of "unable to guess" items, along with Christianity, are the Christian allegories in C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. These underlying meanings, although often caught by adults who read the series, remain unnoticed by the younger generations who read Lewis' works. Throughout the series, many references to the Christian religion are transformed into a children's story about talking animals, an evil witch, and the children who have adventures with them.

Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, in November of 1898. He was born to Albert Lewis, a lawyer, and Flora Hamilton Lewis. Lewis attended a boarding school in England, and in 1916 was accepted at University College, the oldest college at Oxford University. Shortly after entering the...