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C.S Lewis.

Childhood;

Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast on the 29th of November 1898 to Albert and Florence Lewis, his grandfather was a church of Ireland Priest. Lewis was baptised at birth but was said to have later drifted away from the church. When he was 4 his dog, Jacksie, was ran over and he announced that his new name was Jacksie but later accepted Jack which he became known as to his friends and family for the rest of his life.

Lewis loved the Beatrix Potter books and had a love of animals, he and his brother Warren created an entire world, Boxen, by combining Clive's stories of animals with his stories of india. Lewis favourite stories where those that involved animals with human characteristics meaning they could walk, talk and do anything a real person could do. Lewis's father had a house full of books which the young boy loved to read as often as he could.

He was schooled by private tutors until he moved to Wynard School in Watford just after the death of his mother from cancer. His brother already went to the school but it soon closed due to lack of pupils at the headmaster went creazy and was enrolled in a Psychiatric Hospital. Lewis then went to Campbell College but had to leave due to respiratory and moved to Malvern, a health resort town in England. When he went to Mavern College he drifted away from his religous beleifs and became an Athiest. When he was 15 he went back to being tutored rather than being taught in a school.

For a short time he was in the British Army and fought in World War I in the Somserset Light Infantry. He fought in the Somme on his ninteenth birthday but was alter injured when an English Shell fell short of it's target and exploded near him. After his recovery he was assigned to Andover in England before being discharged in December 1918.

Lewis went to Oxford as an Undergraduated student where he won a triple first, the highest honour you can recieve in any subject at university. Lewis kept his interests in English Literature and Mythology all the way through his learning career at Oxford and would later go on to to teach before becoming an author.

Lewis taught as a fellow of Magdalene College Oxford for nearly thirty years before becoming the first Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge. He used his position to argue that English Renaissance didn't exsist and most of his time was spent learning about the later Middle Ages and it's use of Allegory.

Lewis was a member of the Inklings writing club with a few other famous writers, the best known of which was J. R. R. Tolkien the author of "The Lord of the Rings" series of books. Tolkien was pivotal in Lewis's conversion to Christianity. He became a member of the Church of England after re-discoering Christianity with the help of Lewis and the influence of a book called "The Everlasting Man".

Lewis actually changed his religion more than once in his life, first he became an Athiest was meant that he didn't believe that God exsited, then he coverted to Theism was meant he believed that more than one Diety exsisted and finally to Christianity where he stayed until his death in the 1960's. He began to use Allegory in his stories and this is sen especially in his Chronicles of Narnia series in which Aslan clearly represents Jesus.

The Last Battle won the Carnegie Award, the highest honor for children's literature in the United Kingdom. Also, Winston Churchill offered Lewis a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 1951, but he turned it down.

C. S. Lewis died from Renal Problems on the 22nd of November 1963 but his death was greatly overshadowed by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on the exact same day.