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Write a paragraph comparing the passage from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with the passage from "Children of the Wartime Evacuation.”
Explain how the central ideas and themes relate to one another.

Answer 1

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Passage 1:

And that would have been the very end of the story if it hadn’t been that they felt they really must explain to the Professor why four of the coats out of his wardrobe were missing. And the professor, who was a very remarkable man, didn’t tell them not to be silly or not to tell lies, but believed the whole story.

passage 2:

Joan Risley is keen to emphasise the good points in her experience. She was evacuated twice. The first time, she went with her sister to Beccles, in Suffolk. They were home by the beginning of 1940 but when an invasion seemed likely, Joan announced that she wished to be evacuated again. None of her brothers and sisters wanted to go too, so she was sent alone, aged nine, to Northamptonshire. She lived there with a childless couple who loved and cared for her as their own.

–“Children of the Wartime Evacuation,”

ulie Summers

–The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,

C. S. Lewis

Write a paragraph comparing the passage from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with the passage from "Children of the Wartime Evacuation.”

Explain how the central ideas and themes relate to one another.

Answer:

In both "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "Children of the Wartime Evacuation", children have a voice and are heard. Their words are taken seriously and there is someone who believes in them, both the professor and the Joan Risley's family.

Arguably, both deal with the theme of trust and their central ideas are based on stories or truths told by children.

Answer 2

Answer:

In both passages, the children had adults in their lives who listened to them. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Professor is supportive and believes the children when they explain why four of his coats are missing. The text says, he “didn’t tell them not to be silly or not to tell lies, but believed the whole story.”   Likewise, in “Children of Wartime Evacuation,” when Joan Risley says that she wants to be evacuated a second time, her parents listen to her and send her to live in another foster home, which turns out to be very loving. Both passages share the idea that the children were valued enough to be listened to and the theme that it is important to listen to loved ones.

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