When is he arriving? - Robert High

I used to always love the feeling of waiting for a relative to visit my home. It was so nice to wait and wait and wait, and then upon arrival I would get to see them for the first time all year. Since most of my relatives live within a 10 mile radius of one another, it was usually my family who would go to see them rather than them come and see us, and since they all lived in Ohio, I would only get to see them rarely. So, on the off chance that one of them would come down to Virginia to visit us, the excitement of waiting for them to arrive would always keep me occupied.

One of the things that captivated me while reading the Chronicles of Narnia was that in every single book, when it came to Aslan, I recieved a very similar feeling of waiting like when I was young. The presence of Aslan in every book of the Chornicle's series is always new and exciting. In most cases when he opens his mouth to speak all of the other things in the story seem to come to a halt bringing the reader so focused in on what he is going to say that they may as well have forgotten the last thirty pages they had read before.

But even before He arrives, there is still an exciting feeling of waiting for his arrival. This is especially the case when Lewis gives clues to the reader that he may be coming. In The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, when the children are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, the atmosphere is surrounded with ideas of prophecy and hope. The beavers obviously know that the children represent a sign that Aslan will be coming to set things right with Narnia and the White Witch but the children have no idea. I liked how the story depicted the undertoned excitement within the Beaver's behavior. It was obvious they were feeling the same feeling I would feel upon hearing that one of my loved relatives was coming to down in a couple of days.

The children in the story at this point had no idea what the Beavers were talking about. But it is obvious that as the story and books progress, the children would soon get the same feeling every time they heard that Aslan was coming soon.