Funny. You would think that the author, CS Lewis had just come up with some random character for a book that he had been writing....But really, he was inspired by a 14 year old girl to create to character of, "Lucy Pevensie".
In 1944, a girl named June Flewett had been evacuated to CS Lewis's house in Oxford during a war, escaping the Blitz. She was a London convent girl who had inspired Lewis to create Lucy Pevensie. Now, June Flewett is called Jill Freud and is now 78 years old. She had no idea that CS Lewis was inspired by her to create Lucy. When the movie, "The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe", came out in theaters in London, Jill was asked to attend. She was even asked to go to the movie premier in America but, decided that she didn't want kids to know that this old was Lucy....
Knowing that CS Lewis had an inspiration for Lucy, it makes me wonder where Peter, Edmund and Susan ever came from in the first place. Most importantly, what gave him the idea to create the fantasy world of Narnia anyways?
When CS Lewis was a child, he lived happily in Ireland with his brother parents and nanny. But when his mother dies, due to cancer, him and his brother were shipped to a boarding school in England where he became inspired. His inspiration for Narnia had began there. Lewis recalls that his school in england was winter all the time but, never christmas. Basically, his entire past is relevant to his writing During world war II, he took in four children and their presence inspired him to create the four main characters of his greatest master piece which was, "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe".
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