Just saw the movie but I have a question?

[synergyman70]

I have read all of the books but at the end of the movie what did Digory toss to the Children as he said, "You might be suprised." This was after the children told him he wouldn't believe what had happened to them.

[pacifiquesea]

I think it was the cricket ball that had smashed through the window.

[peterlover]

it was the ball that had smased through the window. i knew it when i saw it cause time hadn't really moved at all in all those years they were in narnia and that's what had happened right before they went to narnia.

[WhatsAnAslan]

Besides time freezing.. Wasn't there supposed to be a point where they start forgettin where they originally came from? Up to the point of the battle scene they were still talking about how mother would be furious about them getting hurt.. Or that the remark Peter I think made, about them leaving London to avoid war, only to be walking into and being apart of another.. I would think they would of forgotten about their other life by now.. Even though it showed they did so when they grew up. heh..

[PrinceOfTheWest]

Oh, there's no indication in the book or movie that they forgot about their old life when they first entered Narnia. In the book it does state that by the time they were older and hunting the White Stag, immediate memory of their life in this world, and even of the significance of the lamppost, had faded.

That's a bit of a contradiction with another book though. In Horse and His Boy, Queen Lucy, who is by then a young woman, tells the story of the wardrobe entrance at a banquet at Anvard. If she remembered it clearly at that age, I would think it unlikely that she'd forget it just a few years later.

[rosymole]

The children were in Narnia, ruling as Kimgs and Queens for at least 10-15years (i think not to sure on the exact years), and they would have had a great deal to cope with during that time..when they find the lamp post at teh end of LWW it does ring some bells, s we know, so they haven't forgottne totally. The apparent memory loss could be put down to the 'magic' contained within Narnia, or maybe..because Lewis thought it would better for the story for them to be surprised at finding the post again?

[Shagpile]

I dont know what was written in the book but in the pants BBC version they describe the lamp post as a strange metal pole with a light at the top.

Or something along those lines.

[Starkist]

That's a bit of a contradiction with another book though. In Horse and His Boy, Queen Lucy, who is by then a young woman, tells the story of the wardrobe entrance at a banquet at Anvard. If she remembered it clearly at that age, I would think it unlikely that she'd forget it just a few years later.

I think that by the time they leave Narnia, the story of how they got there has become just that - a story. They tell it and retell it but it has passed from memory into myth, and thus they are surprised when they actually find that it was true. A few moments in England though and their memory returns, and their experience in Narnia starts the same transformation from myth to memory.

For some, talking about it keeps it fresh in their minds. For others, like Susan, it just ends up being a story.

[ILoveWilliamMoseley]

I think it was the cricket ball that had smashed through the window.
The ball that flew through the window was what he gave to them. You are Right!!!!