work entitled The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew becomes the
medium whereby the author express his thought, perceptions and feeling as a Christian In this case, the writer will reveal the expression of the author from the
analysis of symbols that the author creates within the literary work. The writer examines how the
author’s view, values, perception, and thoughts as a Christian have a significance in creating those symbols.
C. Method of the Study
This study analyzed the first book of the series of The Chronicles of Narnia written by C.S Lewis entitled
The Magician’s Nephew. In order to find the answer to each question in the problem formulation, the writer conducted several steps to
complete the study. In the first step, the writer chose a literary work for this research. The novel
entitled The Chronicle of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew was chosen to be
examined further. After conducting a close reading of the book, the writer decided to focus on how the author expresses Christian concepts, stories, and teaching
through the use of symbols. The second step was to find some references for the analysis on the topic
selected. The references included any criticism, review, approach and theories about the chosen topic, namely theories on symbol, review on biography of the
author and his work, and review on expressive approach. This data was considered as the secondary data. In this case, the secondary data was taken from
some Theory books. Then, the review of the author’s biography and his works
were mostly cited from the autobiography of C.S Lewis entitled Surprised by Joy: the shape of my early life
. However, the writer will also refer to the other references.
The third step is to formulate the problems with the purpose of making it systematic and easy for the analysis. Next, the writer examined the novel as the
primary data by applying the secondary data to answer the problems. To answer the first problems about what symbols being found in The
Chronicle of Narnia: Magician’s Nephew, the writer used the theory on symbolism to look for any word or phrase which could be used as a symbol,
which was conducted initially by close reading of the whole The Chronicle of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. Each symbol which had been found was then
analyzed by using the theories. This theory was used to determine whether a particular construction had denotative or connotative meaning. Data which had
connotative meaning would be analyzed further to find which one shared symbols. Finally, the symbols which had been found in the first problem formulation
were examined further to answer the second problem formulation about how they were used to express Christian concepts, stories, and teaching. It was done by
relating the symbols with the review of biography of the author and his work as the basic data to understand how the
author’s life as Christian might share a prominent influence in producing his works. In this way, the writer examined the
review to reveal author’s values, thoughts, views, and perception as Christian and
to establish on how it has a significance influence in producing those symbols within
The Chronicle of Narnia: Magician’s Nephew.
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