To me, Aslan's sacrifice in TLTW&TW was an obvious allegory for the crucifixion...
This, me too, reading aged 6ish. I can't remember whether I knew from my parents that the books were intended as Christian allegories or whether it was just obvious to me. This in the context of being a Baptist minister's child and there being an awful lot of religious books around.
[I'm going to come back later and read the rest of the comments properly...]
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2015-06-25 01:39 pm (UTC)This, me too, reading aged 6ish. I can't remember whether I knew from my parents that the books were intended as Christian allegories or whether it was just obvious to me. This in the context of being a Baptist minister's child and there being an awful lot of religious books around.
[I'm going to come back later and read the rest of the comments properly...]