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| Just another room. |
Reply| Dark secret closet |
Reply| eerie and mysterious |
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At time, when you think you know the culprit there needs to be a way to catch them. That is where "bait" can help. Have you ever used a character as bait in order to catch the bad guy? |
By definition, fiction is made up. It's a lie. So, why read it? What your favorite, made-up fictional world that tells us about the real world in which we live? |
| N.A Miller - ohhh you mean an allegory! That is when an author uses Christian themes in a fictional setting to reimagine it. But even Lewis himself said that was unintentional. |
| You also could have meant parable which is stories with moral/religious meanings. The Bible has a lot of parables in it. |
Charity Marie - <3  - that's right... but that's how i interpreted the story. good coincidence. I don't fault C.S Lewis for writing that way. It's a good Christian theme. |
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