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C. S. Lewis and the Power of Story- Pt. 1

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” 

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader begins with this remarkable introduction of Eustace because he is C.S. Lewis’s protagonist in this particular story. And by the end, Eustace (his name means good harvest) will be converted by the story, the gospel story, which, in effect, makes th…

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