Posted on 12/16/2004 11:42:15 PM PST by kattracks
Probably would do fine.
But it might depend a lot on how they were introduced.
I'd start by talking about THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Then I'd comment that the author of TLOTR often met with a group of other writers and philosophers at least weekly to discuss life and their writings. And, that one of the writers who met with Tolkien--I think it was usually at Lewis's house, actually--not certain--one of those other writers was C.S. Lewis who also wrote a fantasy.
And, like Tolkien's LOTR's Lewis' fantasy is a wonderfully imaginative, creative, beautiful allegory about good and evil.
That at one level it can be taken as a children's book. And on another level, like LOTR, it can be taken as a kind of summary or manual about life--because it illustrates so many key principles in living life overcomingly.
Anyway--I'm sure you can figure out a way to introduce it which would increase it's attractiveness to a 13 year old.
THX 4 asking.
Or-
- at a time when religious liberty seems to be under tremendous assault, Amazon has a limited number of copies of the long out-of-print volume, "OUR AGELESS CONTITUTION," a very special 320-page Bicentennial (1987) Edition, where scholars lay out the Founders' principles and trace the ways in which America's Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary branches took us away from those constitutional principles.
BTTT!!!
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