C.S Lewis

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C.S Lewis
This presentation was produced by Alana Chambers
in her English Class.
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All East About him

• C.S Lewis
• His full name is Clive Staples Lewis.
• He was born on the 29th November 1898, in East
  Belfast in a house where Dundela flats now
  stand.
• He has written over 40 books in his lifetime,
  over 20 of them have been translated into
  different languages.

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Pastimes

• He enjoyed looking through his telescope. He
  looked at the shipyards in East Belfast and he
  also loved swimming in the sea in Castlerock.
• As a teenager, he collected his favourite stories
  and poems.
• He memorized long passages from his favourite
  books.

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Facts

• When he was five years old, he had a pet dog
  called Jack but it died, and after that he
  demanded to be called Jack.
• When he was six, his family moved to the edge of
  the city and lived in Little Lea on the Circular
  Road in the Belmont area of Belfast. The house is
  still there.
• The house he moved to had long corridors, rooms,
  spaces to explore and an attic.

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Did You Know gt

• In 1917 C.S Lewis went to Oxford University.
• He graduated from university in 1922.
• He became a teacher in 1925 in Oxford University.
• He used to get up an hour early every morning to
  write his books.

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The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

• CS Lewis wrote The Lion The Witch and the
  Wardrobe.
• The book tells of the adventures of the Pevensie
  children in Narnia.
• The book has a deep religious meaning.

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Inspirations

• The ruins of Dunluce castle on the north coast
  may have been the inspiration for the Cair
  Paravel in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
• He attended Campbell College in Belfast. The
  street lamp may have been the inspiration for the
  lamp in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
• The landscape of County Down, especially the
  Mourne Mountains where he loved to go walking
  when he returned to Northern Ireland, was his
  inspiration for Narnia.

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Landmarks

• There is a plaque to mark where C.S Lewiss
  house stood.
• In St Marks church there is a stained glass
  window donated to the Lewis family.
• One of his most famous quotes There isnt a
  book or a cup of tea big enough for me
• The Searcher statue on the Hollywood Road shows
  the wardrobe and C.S Lewis.

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The Stained Glass Window in St Marks Church
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C.S Lewis

• C.S Lewis married Joy Gresham in 1956.
• She died in 1960.
• C.S Lewis died in 1963 at the age of 65.

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CS Lewis Mural

• Since the Peace Process began, many paramilitary
  murals in East Belfast have been replaced with
  Peaceful murals.
• In Dee Street in East Belfast there is now a
  mural about CS Lewis and Narnia.

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The End By Alana Year 9 English