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Prince Caspian — Chapter 8

Study guide for 7th – 9th Grade

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About This Passage

Lewis uses landscape as psychological and moral commentary throughout the chapter — the overgrown paths and vanished landmarks externalize the children's internal struggle to reconcile who they were with what they must become in this changed world

Read Chapter 8 of Prince Caspian and select 3-5 sentences from the journey sequence — where the Pevensie children travel through a Narnia they barely recognize. Choose a passage where Lewis's landscap...

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Discussion Questions

Narration Prompt

Summarize this chapter, then explain what you think the author most wanted the reader to notice or feel. What techniques did the author use?

Discussion Questions

  1. Lewis devotes an entire chapter to the difficulty of traveling through changed Narnia. This is a journey chapter — largely without dramatic action. Analyze what this structural choice accomplishes. What would be lost if Lewis had simply summarized the journey and moved directly to the Pevensies' arrival at Aslan's How?
  2. The Pevensie children carry knowledge of old Narnia that no one else alive possesses. Yet that knowledge is partially obsolete — the land has changed. Analyze the double-edged nature of their memory. In what ways does it serve them, and in what ways does it mislead?

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Vocabulary Builder

Item 1

The art and science of making maps — and, by extension, the ability to understand and represent spatial relationships

Item 2

Something that belongs to a different time period than the one in which it appears

Item 3

A planned route or course of travel, especially one worked out in advance

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