Author portrait and buses!

I've been sitting on a bus three or four hours today. It didn't feel as long as it usually would. There aren't that many people on it on Thursdays either. But it was boring of course. Got a new headset for my iPod because.. Well, I dont know where I put my other ones. Typical. :p

The reason as to why I've been on a bus today, is that my little sister and I were going to our grandparents, because our parents are going to the capital(Oslo).

My best friend, Anne Berit, took care of Jacson for me today (: Jacson is a horse, for your information. Maybe I should tell you about him and Isak in a later blog!

I thought, to fill the blog out a bit, that I would add the author review a friend and I have been working on for English class. We could choose between Roald Dahl and C. S. Lewis. We chose the latter one. I dont know, maybe it's a bit messy. But you cant expect too much for two thirteen years old Norwegian girls! :p

By Maria and Mette
Clive Staples Lewis ( C.S. Lewis ) was born in 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He was the author of many books, but he was most famous for the chronicles of Narnia.

He had a three years older brother who was named Warren Hamilton Lewis. His parents’ names was Florence Augusta Lewis Hamilton, shortened to Flora, and his fathers name was Albert James Lewis. His mother Florence died on his fathers birthday because of cancer.

Clive Staples Lewis was raised as a christian, but as the years went on he became an atheist. He did not convert because he didn’t believe in God, it was rather because of his anger against God because of all the injustice in the world. He was always very interested in fantasy and to be able to use his imagination as he wanted. He tried out different forms of art. Opera and poetry for instance. He was very interested in Norse mythology.

He went to school in Oxford, and at the age of seventeen he was sent to the British army.
In the army he went to France to fight for his country, and that’s where we met Paddy More, another Irish man. They were roommates and became really good friends.They made a deal that if one of them died in a war, the remaining one would take care and live with the other mans family.

A few years later, Paddy died in a battle in France, and Clive held his promise.
He moved in with Paddy’s mother(Janie More) and sister(Maureen More).

But Clive had also gotten hurt in one of the battle’s, and was suffering from a depression.

As Paddy’s sister grew older, she went away for school, a bit after her mother had passed away. Clive started working at a school, where he tutored in English language and literature.
For about thirty years he tutored at the Magdalen College in Oxford.

He married Joy Gresham, a American author who he admired deeply. But the happiness fell short, she later died because of bone cancer.

Clive Staples Lewis died in the home he shared with his brother the 22nd November in 1963, a week before his 65th birthday. The news about his death got overshadowed by John F. Kennedy’s death that happened the very same day.



What do you think? Honestly.