Green Wood in The Chronicles of Narnia

Have you read The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis? It’s one of the children storybooks I like the most. There are few scenes in this storybook that left me a very deep impression, especially the world where Jadis from, a world described by the author which is about to end and the time has stopped there. I like the language of Lewis, he could always makes me imagine a place with his beautiful language. I admire those who can write very well, like really admire, because I myself cannot write so well like them.

Another scene which I quite like in this storybook is the Greenwood. The author calls it “The Wood between the Worlds, I call it “Greenwood”. Perhaps this is the scene which I will immediately recall when people talk about The Magician’s nephew. I paint out this scenery from the language of Lewis, not quite sure if it’s like how Lewis has imagined, but my feeling and image for the greenwood is exactly like the picture shown up there. The little boy is not me, it’s Digory, the main character in the story. He wakes up to find himself in the wood with a peaceful feeling. I have read a dozen times of this storybook and each time I read, the picture of greenwood would just come up bit by bit in my mind: the soft green and yellow light; a green world where there are many small ponds and endless trees. I have always thought yellow light gives us a peaceful mind, like the morning light. I have tried to paint the yellow light but it appears that it’s not that easy to paint. The book doesn’t mention any dandelion but I paint it there, because I think the dandelion actually makes the place looks better.

And, that’s it. My Greenwood of Chronicles of Narnia.