In later chapters, several biblical themes are illustrated, including the garden of Eden, the first temptation, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the Tree of Life. In chapter 9 of The Magician’s Nephew, Lewis provides a beautiful picture of creation ex nihilo as Aslan creates Narnia. Jadis stays in the northern regions of the other world and becomes the White Witch who appears in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In this new world, Digory faces (and resists) a grave temptation before he returns home. Of course, the Lion is Aslan, and what Digory witnesses is the creation of Narnia. In response to the Lion’s song, stars appear, and a sun and plants and animals. Digory uses the rings to get Jadis out of our world again, and they arrive in an empty place where they find a Lion singing. In Charn, Digory foolishly releases a wicked queen named Jadis from a trance-like state, and Jadis follows him back to our world where she immediately attempts to set up a kingdom of her own. Digory and his friend Polly, with the aid of some magic rings, are transported into another world, a cold, dying place named Charn. He is the nephew of a vain and foolish magician named Andrew Ketterly. In The Magician’s Nephew, the Professor Kirke of the previous books is a young boy named Digory. Much is explained in this book of beginnings, including the origin of the magic wardrobe, the presence of a lamp post in Narnia, and the creation of Narnia itself.

Lewis is the first of the Narnia books when arranged chronologically. Although published as the sixth in the series, The Magician’s Nephew by C.

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis