This is a very short story, isn't it? I never realized how to-the-point it is. It really is all about the allegorical return and passion of Aslan and a brief following battle, and that's all there is to it. Not even a lot of lead-up. It is a children's book, after all, so i guess it makes sense that it's short. 
 I find it pretty brutal for a kid's book. I remember feeling kind of traumatized by the cartoon movie when i was a kid. Now that i know it's really about Jesus, it makes more sense that it should be the way it is, but the reference is also so transparent that it's kind of hard to enjoy the story in and of itself. It's a classic good-versus-evil story, which more and more i find a little boring. Why is the White Witch so evil? I'm really curious now to read The Magician's Nephew to learn more about Aslan's background and how Narnia came to be and all that. I would've started there, but it wasn't available on Wilbor so i grabbed this one instead. 
 I'm glad to finally be able to compare this to The Golden Compass and also The Magicians. I see now that The Golden Compass isn't really more shocking or brutal than this book, but i feel even more strongly now that the language and the concepts are far and away more adult in Pullman's book than in this classic. I still can't believe that a kid wouldn't struggle enormously with His Dark Materials, but i know a lot of people who read it when they were young, so i guess i can only speak for my former self. And as far as The Magicians goes, i can see now that Grossman wasn't at all trying to hide that Fillory and Narnia are one in the same. Other than the villains and the gods, they're practically identical. If anything, it makes the Magicians series all the more funny to me, considering how buttoned-up and British this book is. In a way, The Magicians is a parody of the Chronicles of Narnia. I'm looking forward to finishing this series to see what else in Grossman's books came straight from this world.