reading response #5 (revised)

In the book, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis, is a book of magic and an adventure in the world called Narnia. A boy called Digory with his friend Polly get transported to another world, they accidentally release the evil Queen called Jadis. When she is released into their world, Digory and Polly must find a way to take her back to her world, also witnessing the birth of Narnia. I think that Uncle Andrew is a symbol of mankind and their opinion of magic, mostly in the part when he sees Narnia's birth.
    I think that Uncle Andrew is a symbol of mankind because in the passage, it says, "All he saw, or thought he saw, was a lot of dangerous animals walking vaguely about." This means that when the children saw this event, they saw what it was really about, when Uncle Andrew saw it as a bunch of animals that are dangerous. It shows that mankind often don't see the real meaning of magic or things like that.
     Another way to show that Uncle Andrew is a representation of mankind is in the book, it says that Uncle Andrew thought of himself as a magician, when he doesn't understand of the birth of Narnia. This means that he doesn't understand the difference between mankind's opinion of magic and the real magic. Another way to show that Uncle Andrew is a symbol for mankind is "When the great moment came and the Beasts spoke, he missed the whole point; for a rather interesting reason." This means that Uncle Andrew tries not to hear what Digory and Polly heard because he doesn't believe in it.
    In conclusion, Uncle Andrew is a symbol of mankind when witnessing the birth of Narnia because he doesn't believe in that kind of magic, and that he would rather would not see the moment because it goes against what he had learned.