Joshua Gross’s Reviews > The Last Battle > Status Update

Their Narnia and their England were not real, just Shadow lands. This version of Narnia is real. Digory says it's all in Plato, referencing the allegory of the cave

Lewis originally had 'Aslans country' to the East of Narnia to align with biblical associations, but now that Narnia is gone and they're in Aslans country, the afterlife direction is to the west, as it is in Tolkien and medieval writing and the location of the setting sun

Omg. I've unintentionally picked something to read that certainly matches my mood right now

This train business is concerning

No one can describe a taste? You must not be trying very hard

Boy Susan sure is being vilified for being a young woman with a young woman's interests...

The dwarfs: "Keep it up, boys! All together. Carefully. We don't want darkies any more than we want monkeys or lions or kings"

Tirian is just full of good advice. To Jill, "if you must weep, sweetheart, turn your face aside and see you wet not your bow string." To Eustace, "Do not scold like a kitchen girl..." This was just after they watched a bunch of Dwarves slaughter a herd of talking horses

Wow, a dwarf in the crowd just called the Calormarene a 'darkie', an overt use of racialized language in a series that has often dipped into racism

Eustace voices his concern they may have been in a train accident just as arriving in Narnia