Sabrina's Blog

Welcome to the A to Z Challenge ! If you're visiting from the A to Z trail, please leave the link to your blog so I can return the favor! This year I am visiting some of my favorite female characters from books I've read. I'm just doing my part to add to your long 'to-read' list! Happy Hopping! L is for Lucy Pevensie from  The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)  by C.S. Lewis Lucy is one of four siblings we follow through the wardrobe into the magical land of Narnia and, I believe, the most important character. Afterall, if her curiosity hadn't made her approach the wardrobe, this story wouldn't exist. As a girl, I identified with her refusal to lie to appease the others and her strong character. She is a favorite of Aslan and witnesses Aslan's sacrifice on the stone table. She is a healer and a perceptive judge of character. As an adult in Narnia, she is known as Queen Lucy the Valiant. Here is the book description ...

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."  ~Albert Einstein To me the fantasy genre is the epitome of what using your imagination is all about. Reading fantasy makes  you think 'what if' and encourages you to move past accepting what you are told. Would Einstein have received his Nobel Prize in Physics for developing his theory of general relativity without first using his imagination to 'think outside the box'? I very much doubt it.  As a child, fantasy stories helped me learn to question the world around me. My mom might have told me that the wardrobe leading to Narnia was simply a figment of C.S. Lewis' imagination, but I still wondered if she could be wrong. This one is still up for debate. *grin*  I firmly believe that when  your perceptions of reality are blurred as a child, that ...