Digorys father is working far away in India and his mother is sick therefore Digory has been forced to move out of the country to London. In London Digory lives with his aunt and uncle that is taking care of both him and his ill mother. They live in a long row of houses that are joined together, and next door lives a girl named Polly Plummer. Digory and Polly become friends and play together a lot. Polly shows Digory a hiding place, in the attic of her house and there is a tunnel that connects all the houses together. Andrew is Digorys uncle and he has a room that is off limit for Digory. But when Polly and Digory play in the attic tunnels they find a door that goes to Uncle Andrews’s room. They stumble upon Andrew and instead of scolding Polly and Digory which would be the expected consequence of them going into Andrews forbidden room, Andrew was happy to see them and saw their appearing as an opportunity to exploit. He explained that he was conducting experiments with magical rings but he didn’t exactly know what the rings did. Andrew…show more content… The story Lewis is telling is written in a childish way but the ideas presented are both challenging and interesting.
The language is written simple with a lot of adjectives, especially during the creation of Narnia when everything is described. C.S Lewis is trying to explain the book of genesis to younger audience and therefore he uses simple language. There is almost no swears or profanity in the book, except for when uncle Andrew describes Jardis as a”dem fine lady”. The reason for writing dem instead of damn could very well be because of Lewis moral stand as a Christian or because it simply is not appropriate to have swears in a book intended for a younger
