The protagonists in “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” are between the ages of 13 and 8 and have recently experienced a childhood trauma related. The loss of their parents and the forced relocation into a more rural area. Such events put young children under circumstances in which they have a different perception of the environment from a psychological standpoint (Smith & Pollak, 2020). For example, the younger, Lucy, is first portrayed as a girl who is easily frightened by describing the passage in the new house as making her “feel creepy” (Lewis, 2018, p. 12). However, later on, she meets a Faun, and her reaction to the creature she has never encountered before is greeting him with a polite “good evening” (Lewis, 2018, p. 21). This is a metaphor for the psychological condition in which children without parental supervision become emancipated and independent
References
Lewis, C. S. (2018). The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis Pte. Ltd.
Smith, K. E., & Pollak, S. D. (2020). Early life stress and development: Potential mechanisms for adverse outcomes. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 12(1). Web.