In The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the author, C.S. Lewis, is clearly the narrator. Although the novel is told primarily in the third person point of view, there are several places in which the author makes observations or comments in the first person point of view. For example, there are several places within the narration when C.S. Lewis makes comments about the plot or the situation he is currently discussing, such as in the fifth chapter when he says "some of them are even stranger than the one I am telling you" (p. 132), referring to the story itself. Written in this fashion, the story is told as though being reported by someone who has intimate knowledge of each of the characters and the events reported upon.
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