How can it be,that the kids spent 15 or so years in Narnia,grew up,and then walked back through the wardrobe,became kids again,and they never acted like adults that they were inside.

[Gary]

Narnia is like Vegas. What happens in Narnia, stays in Narnia.

[Kathleen]

Anyone who has real knowledge of the author knows the purpose of his writing. Rob, above, has truly hit the nail on the head. It is about Faith in God. The author himself said so in his lifetime.
Unfortunately the "movie" brigade try to forget this point and do their own thing.

[Dee]

Kirstyn wrote: "**Spoilers in this Comment**

I do not believe Narnia can represent heaven. In the Magician's Nephew book when Digory and Polly are in the woods, Lewis explains that each pool leads to a separate u..."

I always took the separate pools to refer to different religions and dietys and teh choice we have to make which one to follow/belief in - which in the case of Narnia was christianity

[Jenn]

It really saddened me that they forgot about Narnia. I mean seriously how did they not have a conversation about the same dream! (If the theory is that it was just a vivid dream) It was a part of their life and I mean really their kingdom!! They struggled some I'm sure, but no one should have forgotten Narnia in my opinion.

[Jenn]

Rob wrote: "To me, the Narnia series isn't about fiction or magic. It's about faith, either the lacking of or convition of the faith of Our God. The Narnia series was written between 1949 and 1954, only 18 y..."

I totally agree. Best post on here. That was the purpose of these books!

[Larissa]

well when they walk throught the wardrobe it is like it stop time so when the got out of the wardrobe it started time again.

[Sruthi]

Audrey wrote: "I disagree with Kirstyn, the real Narnia is heaven, Aslan's country. Did you read the last paragraph of the entire series?"

Yup. Heaven is the "Real" Narnia that the reader learns about at the end of series.

It may seem hard to believe, but the children do view the time spent in Narnia in a dreamlike fashion.

You can see the evidence for this in the amount of time the children take to realize that they are in Narnia in Prince Caspian . It took a long time for them to be able to identify the castle they called home for years. And that's because they have a hard time remembering their time there when they first get back.

[Johanna Gail]

Emmalynn wrote: "MAGIC...duh. its a F-I-C-T-I-O-N book for children."

I certainly agree with you. The element of surprise would be gone if they come out with mature mindsets. If that would happen then they may not opt to return back to Narnia

[Rebecca]

While several people have excellent theories explaining this conundrum, I would just like to add this: How do you know they didn't? Where does it say that? How do you know they didn't act like the adults they were inside? How do you know they weren't constantly aware of the fact that they were not like the other children and never could be? How do you know that they weren't looked upon as odd for years to come in the real world? It's almost like you want to find some problem with one of the greatest fantasies ever written. If you don't know that they lost the vivid memories of Narnia and acted as children once more, then don't criticize it. Besides, if you think they came back unchanged, you missed the whole point...

[Christopher]

As Lewis was a committed Christian, it could be that he was thinking of the issue from that perspective. According to the Gospels, grown-ups (true grown-ups) should be able to look at the world from a child's perspective. I would assume that means looking at it from a state of expecting the best of people and hoping for good to triumph. There's a certain quality of innocence that children have and that a great deal of them lose as they grow up. However, I think those that grow up properly never lose that trait. Perhaps Lewis was considering that when he wrote the books?

[Anna]

what happened is that narnia is a magic place.
remember the first time lucy got in and came out, she was gone for hours and yet when she got back it on appeared as though it was seconds. a thousand days is like a day before the Lord so CS Lewis used that but above all I think its all about faith and what we believe in. Rob is right and I agree with him.

[Angel]

Steve wrote: "F-I-C-T-I-O-N... If you can accept that the children travel to another world through a wardrobe, you should be able to accept the events upon their return."

Best. Answer. Ever.

[Ingvild]

Think about when they go to Narnia, how the "real world" fades pretty quickly, until they forget it. It might be a bit of the similar effect the other way.

Besides, time is different in Narnia. If one thinks like you do, I see no reason why they should get the bodies of children again when they went back. They could have come back and been grown up in body and in mind, or be children in body and in mind. It makes no sense that only one should change.

[Very]

Gary wrote: "Because Narnia was an alternate reality and when they came back, they hadn't aged a day. That was the magic of Narnia."
Narnia was not magic

[Very]

Rob wrote: "Ryan wrote: "Sorry...."

Really? Perhaps I am not in the best of moods today, but was that really necessary?"
As a matter of fact and since your are asking it can be observed with a great significance and complete irrelevance to the task at hand that as stated previously by the right honourable gentleman it was.

[Jason]

I came across this old conversation and it gave me pause to think for a moment.
And by putting myself in the heads of the day-to-day people I have interacted with over the years, and what I believe they would consider as being an adult or what it is in life they prioritize or are taught or told they should, would be remotely different in both worlds.
I would think people from a place like Narnia would consider the lives we live petty or superficial in many ways.
and vice versa the people from our real world would consider Narnians to be childish or wishy-washy. so moving between the two, whatever ideology or person you strove to be would eventually just fade away like it was just a dream overwritten by a new persona, one that would build through life experience in whichever world you are in.
But of course, this is through my eyes and how I see the world we live in. so Adult, Childish? who can say?