Reading Log 16: The Silver Chair

Chapter 16: The Healing of Harms

Comprehension Questions
1. Why was everyone becoming uneasy? What happened?

— King Caspian was dying. Everyone was feeling a deep sadness in their hearts, especially his son Rilian.

2. What did Aslan tell Eustace to do? What happened afterwards?

— Aslan wanted Eustace to pluck a thorn and drive it to his paw. Blood came out from his paw and dropped on the King’s dead body and it turned him into a young man.

3. What happened when Aslan roared? What did Jill, Eustace, and Caspian do? What was the result?

— When he roared, the wall of the Experimental House shattered and scared the gangs there. Jill plied her crops on the girls while Eustace and Caspian were plying their flats of the swords on the boys. The gangs were shouting hysterically from all the things they saw, shattered walls, giant Lion, the people with weapons running after them. At the end, when police arrived because of all of these fuss, there was no trace of lion, convicts, and broken walls, but the Head of the Experimental House who witnessed everything and was need to be inquired. During the inquiry process, all the bullying at Experimental House got revealed, so 10 students got expelled. Situation at the school changed for the better.

Reflection

The Silver Chair, this book would be a lot more enjoyable if I were at least 10 years younger than I am now, obviously, it is a children literature book. However, I learned many new words and structures from it, so I am glad that I read this book as an English learner.

Compared with the one I read “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”, it was a bit lame from the beginning to the end in terms of its plot and the development of the characters. I am sort of fine with its general plot, yet, it lacked some spice, more necessarily, in the development of the antagonist and some protagonists as well. There could have been more interesting interactions and events if the author focused on its every character in more depth with a good aim that makes the reader remember the characters later (after reading the book). Also, I think the author is so poetic, sometimes too detailed when describing a certain object or an appearance of something. In some parts, he managed to let me forget what is happening in the book with his long long description of a little thing. It would be more pleasing if there were more descriptions of the character’s feelings, emotions, and thoughts rather than the ones describing every single thing in their surroundings.

Overall, undoubtedly, a great book for the children.