On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 09:13 AM, Matthew Hunter wrote: >>>> The only caution about Narnia is I wouldn't recommend it to someone >>>> of >>>> Arabic background, at least not _Horse & His Boy_. I have a friend >>>> who >>>> was amazed that her boyfriend hadn't read them, and then after >>>> re-reading them decided not to suggest he read it, because he's >>>> Iranian >>>> and these days is a little sensitive about that. CS Lewis was way too >>>> obvious about his own prejudices in that book. >>> Yes. In case anyone is not aware, Narnia is fairly explicitly >>> Christian >>> allegory. For that matter, so is Ender's Game, but Ender seems to >>> slip >>> under most people's radar. Card and Lewis are two writers who make >>> no bones >>> about their religious beliefs. To me it enriches their fiction, but >>> YMMV. >> Fascinating. Narnia ticked me off, but Ender's Game which I read >> *much* later slipped completely past me. In fact I really can't see >> any allegory there even now. > > Ender's Game seems clean to me too. The later books are a little > more arguable, and certain of Card's work is very explicitly > religious. I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure that Card mentioned in his foreword that he wrote Ender's Game without intending to add any extra or hidden meaning to it, but instead it just happens to be one of those books that people will take away some meaning. Soldiers have thought it was about the tragedy of war, kids about isolation because of intelligence, I suppose it could be seen as religious allegory too, though I can't see it myself, I'd like to hear how you though Ender's game a Christian allegory. In addition, I don't deny that there must be some sort of religious aspect to his works, he did grow up in Utah, and probably grew up with a certain amount of conscious and unconscious religious influences. AkodoBob who can't think up a witty quote