Joshua Gross’s Reviews > The Horse and His Boy > Status Update

Everything worked out a little too neatly

Lewis leaves no room for possible cultural differences and different ideologies

So Shasta thankfully doesn't have to be a heathen, he was kidnapped as a baby and grew up in servitude. Aslan knew, but he just let it happen and just gave occasional nudges every now and then

Aslan says he purposely clawed Aravis's back so she would feel what it was like when her stepmother whipped the slave she had drugged to escape. As with God, I'm not sure why people like this guy

Also they're all in great spirits afterward despite any casualties during the battle

CS Lewis storyteller style in these books often verges on telling, not showing, but no more so than this battle scene, that is being dictated to the reader and to some main characters by a hermit gazing into a magic pool and telling us what's happening as it happens. This def makes for a less compelling battle scene

It's amazing how little of this book has to do with the title

Everything about this impending battle between the heathen lands and the talking Bunny rabbits is framed as exciting adventure

emphasis on how much better things are in Narnia as opposed to the heathen lands

Red Dwarfs: have been given no explanation, though there are apparently red dwarfs and black dwarfs.