Selfishness brings you in a misery

And Edmund gave a very superior look as if he were far older than Lucy there was really only a year‘s difference and then a little snigger and said, ―Oh, yes, Lucy and I have been playing-pretending that all her story about a country in the wardrobe is true. Just for fun, of course. There‘s nothing there really Lewis, 2007:45 To reach his desire to be a King in Narnia, he becomes a liar. Edmund lies to his sibling because he does not want they know about Narnia. Like what the witch said that he has kept secret about Narnia and he has already met the White Witch in order he can be a King there. So, he tells that a country in the wardrobe is nothing. Telling a lie brings him in a conflict against his siblings. The external conflict complicates him. This statement that can represent that his selfishness will complicate him to reach his desire, as follow: ―Look here,‖ said Peter, turning on him savagely, ―shut up You‘ve been perfectly beastly to Lu ever since she started this nonsense about the wardrobe, and now you go playing games with her about it and setting her off again. I believe you did it simply out of spite Lewis, 2007: 45.‖ In that quotation, his selfishness brings him in a conflict with his sibling. By Edmund conflicting with his sibling he cannot bring his sibling to the Witch as a requirement to be a King and it will stir him up in to other problems. Edmund goes to Narnia for the second time, but at this time he comes with his siblings and they do not know about Narnia. He goes to the witch‘s house alone. There, he gets a bad treatment from the White Witch. can not bring his sibling with him in her house, as follow: ―Take it away,‖ said Edmund sulkily. ―I don‘t want dry bread.‖ But the Witch suddenly turned on him with such a terrible expression on her face that he apologized and began to nibble at the bread, though it was so stale he could hardly get it down. ―You may be glad enough of it before you taste bread again,‖ said the Witch Lewis, 2007:112. From the quotation above, Edmund disappoints to the Witch because he is given dry bread and he cannot get want he want, Turkish Delight. He also gets a bad treatment from the witch. He is forced to walk with his hand tied and gets a flick every time he slips. The dwarf obeyed, and in a few minutes Edmund found himself being forced to walk as fast as he could with his hands tied behind him. He kept on slipping in the slush and the mud and wet grass, and every time he slipped the dwarf gave him a curse and sometimes a flick with the whip. The Witch walked behind the dwarf and kept on saying, ―Faster Faster‖Lewis, 2007:119-120 His selfishness changes him to be a liar and get a conflict with his siblings. That conflict causes him cannot bring his siblings to the witch as a requirement to be a King in Narnia. Because Edmund can not bring them, he gets a bad treatment from the White Witch. That situation describes that his selfishness brings him in a difficult situation and add him problem. Edmund found himself being roughly forced to his feet. Then the dwarf set him with his back against a tree and bound him fast. ―prepare the victim,‖ said the Witch. And the dwarf undid Edmund‘s collar and folded back his shirt at the neck. Then he took Edmund‘s hair and pulled his head back so that he had to raise his chin. After that Edmund heard a strange noise-whizz-whizz-whizz. For a moment he could n‘t think what it was. Then he realized. It was the sound of knife being sharpened Lewis, 2007: 136. The difficult situation that he faces is a bad treatment. He finds himself forced to walk as fast as he could with hands tie behind. He also tied on a tree and his hair is pulled until he raised his chin. The problems that he gets because of his selfishness are the internal and external conflicts. They are the dilemma what he will say to his siblings about Narnia, the conflict against his siblings because he makes his sister down, and the conflict against the White Witch because he can not bring his siblings as the requirement. After that moment, Edmund realizes that his characteristic that is selfish bring him in this situation. His selfishness complicates him to realize his desire. His selfishness that just concerns with his advantage and his own pleasure drive him becomes greedy, liar, and also traitor. His relationship with his family also gets worse because his selfishness that makes him miserable. He has to face some conflict against his sibling and the witch and also get a bad treatment from the witch is a misery for him because his selfishness.

2. Brave to Apologize will Fix the Relationship

This story also teach us about apologize and forgive. The message that the writer get from this story is brave to apologize will fix the relationship. After he gets bad treatment from the Witch, he realizes that is on the wrong side. When he realizes it, he meets Aslan and regret what he has to do. The way he wants to be a King by betrays and lies to his sibling bringing him into a bad treatment. So now he decided to apologize and go to the right side, on his siblings and Narnian‘s side. Described as a courageous person after he gets bad treatment, bravely he asks his siblings to apologize and his siblings forgive him and they can forget about the past and they make peace again. Edmund shook hands with each other of the others and said to each of them in turn, ―I‘m sorry,‖ and everyone said, ―That‘s all right.‖ And then everyone wanted very hard to say something which would make it quite clear that they were all friends with him again- something ordinary and natural – and of course no one could think of anything in the world to say. Lewis, 2007:139 From that quotation, the writer can see that Edmund already realize what he has done. So, he apologizes to his siblings for that mistake. He wants to be released from feeling guilty. His courageous to apologize does not make him worse. Moreover, his sibling and other people proud because he confesses his guilty. He bravely ask for apologize to his sibling make their relationship better and they can get along together.

3. Fight the Obstacles to Achieve the Dream

Edmund who has already realized his mistake, goes to the war between the Witch and her army. Her armies are the giants and the werewolf and the spirit of those trees who are in the witch‘s side, the Ghouls, the Boggles, the Ogres, and the Minotaurs, the Cruels, the Hags, and the Specters. Bravely, he fights against the witch‘s army to help Peter and bring the freedoms to the Narnians. Narnia is already under the Witch‘s control too long. Peter and his siblings are trying to bring them into the freedom by win the war and the evil time in Narnia will be gone. There stood Peter and Edmund and the rest of Aslan‘s army fighting desperately against the crowd of horrible creatures whom she had seen last night, only now, in the daylight, they looked even stranger and more evil and more deformed. There are also seemed to be far more of them. Peter‘s army – which had their backs to her – looked terribly few Lewis, 2007:175-176 Edmund‘s characteristic which is courageous takes him into the battle, the conflict against society. He is ready to sacrifice his life in order the evil time in Narnia over. ―It was all Edmund‗s doing, Aslan,‖ Peter was saying. ―We‘d have been beaten if it hadn‘t been for him. The Witch was turning our troops into stone right and left. But nothing would stop him. He fought his way through three ogres to where she was just turning one of your leopards into a statue. And when he reached her he had sense to bring his sword smashing down on her wand instead of trying to go for her directly and simply getting made a statue himself for his pains. That was the mistake all the rest were making. Once her wand was broken we began to have chance – if we hadn‘t lost so many already. He was terribly wounded. We must go and see him Lewis, 2007:178-179. From what Peter says about Edmund in the battle, it shows that he wants to sacrifice his life against the White Witch and the army. There, he not concern with himself, he already concern with other people. He helps the Narnian to get his freedom from evil‘s era. When he is fighting, he does not concern with his own advantage anymore. Edmund‘s characteristic that is courageous leads him to fight the White Witch and her army. They become the obstacles of Narnian to get back their country. Bravely, Edmund help the Narnian by fight the witch and her army. He already sacrifices his live to achieve Narnian that brings them freedom from the evil time.