Community- Elissa Wilcox

A very important aspect to Christianity is community. We as believers are not meant to be alone in our faith, or alone in following our faith. Throughout Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the concept of community and pictures of how different communities could look is portrayed. As soon as Lucy enters Narnia for the first time she meet Mr. Tubnes. She is only in Narnia alone for a moment before she has made a friend and is no longer searching on her own. Another obvious example of community is found within the children themselves. The four of them are usually together in the story, they hold each other accountable and when they have to go on the long journey they are accompanied by the beavers. In a community there are people who are more experienced in their faith than others and there are people who have different parts to play in the community. The beavers play the role of mentors to the children because they have had faith that Aslan was coming back to save them from the White Witch for many years. The children learn from them and grow in their belief in Aslan because they have the animals to guide them, literally toward Aslan and also by telling them stories about him. There is an obvious sense of community throughout the The Chronicles of Narnia series and through reading about this community that happened naturally children and adults can gain a truer understanding of what it means to live in community.