In the land of Narnia, a fake Aslan has appeared creating chaos and disorder in the magical land. The Last Battle is the last book in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Racist and Sexist and Ditto What Philip Pullman Said! It doesn't seem very Christian at all, does it? In the end, their rhetoric is 'you're either with us or against us'. This is the final message you want to leave to your kids? No wonder this book is so popular with fundamentalists. But Susan is left in the real world, with her siblings, parents and cousin all wiped out. All the Pevensy children (bar Susan, of course) discover they and their parents are dead at the end of the story and with a final 'yay!' like a brainwashed Rod and Todd Flanders, skip merrily up the steps to heaven. I just can't let the fate of Susan go, even days after finishing this book.
But the 'deathbed conversion' of the false Aslan still allows him to go to Narn - I mean, Heaven. She was a Queen of Narnia, and saved it many times in battle. Susan, who seems to be discovering her sexuality, is denied entrance to Narnia. Thank goodness those pure white children are called upon once more to put things right! Oh, except for Susan, of course, who is apparently slutting around the real world because she can think of nothing but 'nylons and stockings' and as Peter says gravely, "She is no longer a friend of Narnia."Īnd that is the dangerous fundamentalist thought throughout this book.
Those 'darkies' (yes, that's how they're referred to in the book, along with stinking of 'onions and garlic') are invading Narnia again, at the guidance of a monkey (groan for obvious racist parallels once more) parading around a false Aslan. It is racist, sexist, fundamentalist rhetoric disguised as children's literature. Now I realise that as a kid I was a lot smarter than I gave myself credit for, for "The Last Battle" is an absolute shocker of a book. When I used to read the Chronicles as a kid, I would usually stop at Dawn Treader or Silver Chair.
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