Lives by Breaking / by Lady Sarai (G)
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makoyiTitle: Lives by Breaking
Author: Lady Sarai
Fandom: Narnia
Genre: General
Length: Very Short
Author's Summary:
None. (The Pevensie children deal with being grown, then suddenly being young again.)
Review:
Peter and Lucy confront the issue of memory. In canon, when the Pevensies return as adults to the Western Wood and find the lamppost, they talk about War Drobe and Spare Oom - it used to strike me as odd that they'd confuse things like that, but I suppose it's not so odd really. As an adult, Lucy couldn't remember her father (who had already been away fighting in the war for some time when the children were evacuated - this actually happened to a lot of young children and their fathers in Britain at the end of WWII) except from the stories Peter (whom a lot of the job of raising her had fallen to) tells her. When they return through the wardrobe and suddenly become children again, suddenly remember the war and the housekeeper and that they'd come in here to hide, all the children are troubled, but Peter especially - he finds himself afraid that this time, he'll forget too. That as he grows up again, he'll forget the people who were so important to him in Narnia. This fic is understated, showing, hinting, without ever quite making it clear but in dealing with the issue of memory, its also unlike any of the other fics on the subject that I've read before and I think that's why its lovely.
Lives by Breaking (on Yuletide)
Author: Lady Sarai
Fandom: Narnia
Genre: General
Length: Very Short
Author's Summary:
None. (The Pevensie children deal with being grown, then suddenly being young again.)
Review:
Peter and Lucy confront the issue of memory. In canon, when the Pevensies return as adults to the Western Wood and find the lamppost, they talk about War Drobe and Spare Oom - it used to strike me as odd that they'd confuse things like that, but I suppose it's not so odd really. As an adult, Lucy couldn't remember her father (who had already been away fighting in the war for some time when the children were evacuated - this actually happened to a lot of young children and their fathers in Britain at the end of WWII) except from the stories Peter (whom a lot of the job of raising her had fallen to) tells her. When they return through the wardrobe and suddenly become children again, suddenly remember the war and the housekeeper and that they'd come in here to hide, all the children are troubled, but Peter especially - he finds himself afraid that this time, he'll forget too. That as he grows up again, he'll forget the people who were so important to him in Narnia. This fic is understated, showing, hinting, without ever quite making it clear but in dealing with the issue of memory, its also unlike any of the other fics on the subject that I've read before and I think that's why its lovely.
Lives by Breaking (on Yuletide)