The Soul of Prince Caspian rated by Rebekah Walton

I rated it with an A-.The Soul of Prince Caspian by Gene Veith is an information book about the truths lying behind in the story of Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis. The book deals with the issues addressed in Prince Caspian and apply them to our own world. The Soul of Prince Caspian captured my innermost thoughts with its explanation of how we should apply Prince Caspian to our own lives with its humorous stories, facts and truths.
The humorous stories that Gene Veith used were helpful and intriguing. One of my favorite of the humorous stories is a story about how everyone in Lewis’ day thought The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe would not sell. All the important critics of the day thought they were horrible stories about ‘‘unnaturally pleasant children’’ and also disliked them due to the fact they were fairy tales for children with Christian truths in them. (Especially since in that day and age fairy tales were thought to be unfit stories for children because they did not help children relate and understand real life.)But even though the critic didn’t like them the children loved the book and wanted to read more.
The facts in this book are the information concerning the things that happen in Prince Caspian. One the big factor that is covered a lot in The Soul of Prince Caspian is the number of years that passed in Narnia since the last four royal monarchs were there. This plays into the Soul of Prince Caspian by telling us that our world hasn’t really progressed from 1,288 years ago. Although, maybe we have a lot of computers and technology our world hasn’t really progressed in a real way. We live in a world that doesn’t care about God and wants to cover even the evidence of Him. This is very much like what happened in Prince Caspian, the Telamarines took over and tried to cover up all the remaining evidence of lions and Narnians.
The truths which Veith mentioned were the underlining truths in Prince Caspian. C. S. Lewis wrote about freedom in Prince Caspian that could only be obtained when you followed Aslan. All those who followed Aslan obtained this freedom while others continued in their ways not knowing they were captive by their own wrong doings. C. S. Lewis also wrote about how the Narnians first planned to do but then decided that in order for justice to be done my must really fight the culture of their land with a headlong battle. This battle would defeat the culture and cause the government to run as it should again. Vieth says that we in our own world need to fight the culture by following God’s will in our life and taking the job in our own culture as God wants us to.
Gene Veith’s work is an intriguing book of it’s own that makes one think, with its humorous stories, facts and truths. These main things and many more will cause The Soul of Prince Caspian to be a beloved information book even in years to come. I recommend you read this book.