54 pages 1 hour read

Patti Callahan Henry

Once Upon a Wardrobe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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Essay Topics

1.

Once Upon a Wardrobe is set in Oxford during the winter of 1950. How do the time, place, and season contribute to one or more of the novel’s themes?

2.

Megs Devonshire’s first-person point of view in the novel is interwoven with a close third-person narration conveying George’s perspective. What is the author’s purpose in dividing the narrative this way? How would the book have differed if it had been told entirely from Megs’s perspective?

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What is The Role of Faith and Imagination in Once Upon a Wardrobe? Explain how Callahan illustrates the interplay between faith and imagination through the characters of George and C. S. Lewis.