Chapters 12-15

Chapter 12: Strawberry's Adventure

Aslan asks Digory is he is ready to undo the wrong that he has done to Narnia. Digory asks again about his mother, but Aslan says that He needs to think of Narnia and protecting it from the evil Witch. Aslan wants to plant a tree in Narnia that she won't dare approach, to protect Narnia from her. Digory agrees, although he doesn't know how this was to be done. The Lion stoops his head and gives Digory a Lion's kiss.

They look off to the West. The Lion tells Digory: "Now the land of Narnia ends where the waterfall comes down, and once you have reached the top of the cliff you will be out of Narnia and into the Western Wild.

Chapter 13: An Unexpected Meeting

Polly wakes Fledge and Digory with the news that the toffee did grow into a tree. Digory and Polly take turns bathing in the lake, and then they eat fruit from the toffee tree. They set out again. Soon, they see the valley with the lake and the green hill at the end of the lake. Fledge circles, and then lands. The children roll off his back onto the grass. They climb the rest of the way to the top. When they reach the top, they find themselves facing high gates of gold. The place is private, and Fledge and Polly realize that they can't go in.

On the gates are some words:

"Come in by the gold gates or not at all,

Take of my fruit for others or forbear.

Chapter 14: The Planting of The Tree

Aslan tells Digory to throw the apple toward the riverbank. After this is done, Aslan tells everyone to go to the coronation of the king and queen. Cabby, or Frank, and his wife, Helen, are dressed in beautiful clothes. After Aslan instructs some of the animals to undo the tangle they've made with some trees, the animals uncover Uncle Andrew. The beasts have tried planting him, and when he has awakened from his faint and tries to run away, the animals decide to keep him safe until Aslan can tell them what to do. They had made a sort of cage around Uncle Andrew. The animals have given him everything that they could think of that he might eat.

Chapter 15: The End Of This Story and The Beginning Of  All The Others

Aslan tells the children that they do not need the Rings. They blink and realize that they are in the Wood between Worlds once more. Uncle Andrew lays on the grass, asleep. Aslan shows them a hollow in the grass, which was the pool that they jumped through to get to Charn. Aslan says that that world has ended and tells them to take warning from that although their world is not quite as bad as Charn was. The children are to take the rings from Uncle Andrew and bury them so that they cannot be used again.

The next minute Polly, Digory, and Uncle Andrew tumble into London. They are outside the Ketterley's front door

Chapters 8- 11

Chapter 8: The Fight At The Lamp-Post

The Witch stretches out and grabs the cross bars of the Lamp-Post, snapping it off. The Witch brandishes it toward the crowd. Digory thinks that this might be his chance so he darts toward the horse and the Witch. Polly is suddenly beside him. Digory tells her to hold on to him and that she will have to manage the Ring. The Witch is bashing the policemen with her new weapon. Digory grabs the Witch's ankle, but she hits him, and he loses his grasp. Finally, he gets a firm grip and yells to Polly to touch the Ring.

In an instant, the angry voices of the crowd silence. They come out in the wood: Polly, Digory, the Witch, Uncle Andrew, the horse, and the Cabby.

Chapter 9: The Founding Of  Narnia

The Lion paces to and fro, singing his new song. It is softer than the song before. While he walks and sings, the valley grows grass, and then trees and flowers. With each turn, the Lion approaches the group. Polly is beginning to see the connection between the music and the things that are happening around them. Polly feels that all the things are coming from the Lion.

Suddenly, the Witch steps out toward the Lion. The Witch flings her iron bar at him. The bar strikes the Lion between the eyes and glances off. The Lion continues, neither slower nor faster than before. The Witch shrieks and runs off into the trees.

Chapter 10: The First Joke and Other Matters

Out of the trees, gods and goddess of the woods, along with Fauns, Satyrs, and Dwarfs step out. Out of the river, the river god and his daughters rise. They all answer the Lion, telling Him that they hear and obey. The cab-horse, Strawberry, also speaks. The Lion, Aslan, speaks again: "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also. Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you were taken and into them you can return.

Chapter 11: Digory and His Uncle are Both in Trouble

The animals know nothing about clothes and so they think that each of the humans are just another kind of something. Uncle Andrew tries to talk to the Bulldog, but the beasts can't understand him anymore than he can understand them. Uncle Andrew faints. The Warthog says that Uncle Andrew must be a tree, after all. The Bulldog sniffs him and says that it's certainly an animal. The animals talk about what Uncle Andrew is: a tree or some kind of animal. The Elephant tries to make him stand, but he only collapses back to the ground. Because the majority thinks he's a tree, they decide to plant him. They debate about which end of Uncle Andrew is the branches and which the roots.

Chapters 4-7

Chapter 4: The Bell and The Hammer

Polly and Digory rush down through darkness and a mass of vague shapes. Suddenly, they feel themselves standing on something solid. A moment later, everything comes into focus. The first thing they notice is the light. It isn't sunlight or electric light or like any other light they had ever seen. It is a dull, red light. The children stand on a flat, paved surface in a courtyard surrounded by buildings. This place is as quiet as the Wood between the Worlds, but it is a different kind of quiet: dead, cold, and empty.

Polly wants to leave, but Digory insists that there's not a point to finding a magic Ring that will take them to places if they are afraid to explore once they are there.

Chapter 5: The Deplorable World

The children are standing, facing one another by the pillar where the bell hangs. They hear a soft noise at the end of the room. The last person, the beautiful woman, is rising from her chair. They realize that she is very tall and that she must be the queen from her crown, robes, and the flash of her eyes. The woman asks them who has awoken her, and when Digory tells her that it was he, the woman questions this, since he has no noble blood in his veins. Polly tells her that they came from another world, by magic.

When the sound of falling masonry begins again, the Queen tells the children that they should leave the palace. The Queen takes the children by the hands.

Chapter 6: The Beginning of Uncle Andrew's Troubles

The children arrive back in the Wood between the Worlds, but they are not alone. The Queen had managed to grab Polly's hair and so she is with them in the Wood. The Queen looks different here: paler, stooped, and less beautiful. Once the children make her let go of Polly, Polly yells to Digory to change Rings and jump in the home pool. The Queen begs them to let her come with them. Digory feels sorry for her, but Polly makes him plunge into the home pool. When they do so, Digory feels something catch his ear. When they arrive in Uncle Andrew's study, the Witch, or Queen, is with them. The Queen has regained her strength.

Chapter 7: What Happened At The Front Door

The Witch demands her chariot, and Uncle Andrew cowers in her presence. All the thoughts he had about her loving him vanish. Aunt Letty tells the Witch to leave. The Witch flings out her arms and says some horrible sounding words, but nothing happens. The Witch realizes that her powers of turning people to dust are not going to work in this world. The Witch lunges forward and catches Aunt Letty, throwing her across the room. The housemaid appears and tells Uncle Andrew that the hansom has arrived.

The Witch and Uncle Andrew go out the front, while Digory comes running down the stairs. Aunt Letty is not hurt, since she landed on the mattress she had been mending. Digory thinks about what to do.

Chapters 1-3

Chapter 1:  The Wrong Door

The story takes place a long time ago, when a grandfather was a child. In London, there lives a girl named Polly Plummer. Polly lives in a long row of houses that are all joined together. One morning, she is in the back garden, when a boy scrambles over the wall from the garden next door.

The boy introduces himself as Digory. Digory has lived his whole life, so far, in the country, but his father is now away in India, and his mother is ill. They've come to live with an aunt and a mad uncle. Digory's uncle has a study on the top floor of the house, and Digory is never allowed to go up there.

This is how Polly and Digory come to know each other, and they begin.....

Chapter 2: Digory and His Uncle

Digory screams in horror that Polly has disappeared. Uncle Andrew clasps a hand over Digory's mouth, telling Digory that they don't want to upset Digory's mother. Uncle Andrew's experiment has worked, and Polly has vanished out of this world. Uncle Andrew tells Digory that he has sent her to another world. Digory's godmother had given Uncle Andrew a secret box before she died, but he did not burn it as she had requested. Uncle Andrew didn't open the box for a long time. He found that the box was from the lost city of Atlantis. Uncle Andrew also began studying magic and so he came to have an idea of what was in the box. The box contained something that had been brought from another world..

Chapter 3: The Woods Between The Worlds

Digory immediately vanishes, and everything becomes muddled. The next thing he knows, there is a green light coming down on him from above and a darkness below. Digory thinks he is in water, and he feels himself rushing upward. Digory's head comes out of the water into the air, and Digory scrambles onto the shore. Digory notices that he is not wet or panting for breath from being under the water. Digory is by the edge of a small pool that is surrounded by woods. There are other pools as far as he could see, and the woods are very much alive, even though he can't hear or see any birds, insects, or animals.

Digory has half forgotten how he had come there.

MAIN CHARACTERS

• Digory Kirke: Young, grubby faced, boy. He was raised in the country until his father moved to India, forcing him to go live with his Aunt and Uncle. His mom is deathly ill.

•  Polly Plummer: Young, clean, neat, girl who lives next door to Digory. Born and raised in London

•   Mr. Andrew  Kitterly: Dogory's uncle. a minor magician who has a secret study that he allows nobody to enter.

• Mrs. Kitterly: Digory's aunt.   

• Jadis: Queen of Charn, who becomes the White Witch appearing in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

About The Author: C.S Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was an Irish-born British[1] novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is well known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Lewis died three years after his wife, as the result of renal failure. His death came one week before his 65th birthday. Media coverage of his death was minimal, as he died on 22 November 1963 – the same day that U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the same day another famous author, Aldous Huxley, died.