When he began to write the first book, he didn t know that it would be the middle though. He started to tell a story about a wonderful lion named Aslan. After Lewis has written five books about that world, he wrote a sixth that would explain where the parallel world began. That story became The Magician s Nephew. As the lion sings different notes, different parts of the world come into being.
Low notes bring about the earth, high notes the sun.
The music moves the adults and children who listen to it in various ways depending on their personalities. The good or innocent characters, including an old cart horse, feel lively and happy when they hear the music. The selfish and bad-tempered characters despise the music and want to get away from the new world as quickly as possible. When they cannot escape, the worst-tempered of them all, Jadis, hurls a lamp post at the lion. That lamp post glances off the lion s forehead and roots in the ground, becoming, of course, the lamp post that Lucy will later, or actually earlier in the first book the reader will see, find in Narnia.