Viloence: visual vs literary

[triner2001]

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From: triner2001
Subject: Re: Viloence: visual vs literary
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6336] Viloence: visual vs literary
Date: 8/9/00 7:03 pm  (ET)

I enjoyed your post as you discuss things I have thought about, but
haven't shared with the HP world. I recently re-read the Chronicles of
Narnia and was surprised to read sentences such as "Peter cut off the
Calormene's head" during the battle scenes (I paraphrased, but you get
the idea) Yet never have I heard anything denouncing the violence in
Lewis's works! Is it simply because his 7 book series is considered a
Christian allegory that children brandishing broadswords and decapitating
foreign invaders is *not* considered violent? Only in this last HP book
does someone actually die, whilst in Narnia the dead fairly litter the
pages. *Sigh...*

Trina