Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

9 reviews

ggcd1981's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and War

hairyfrogs's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism

heather667's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

erintempleton's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

some problematic symbolism and characterization, but a classic collection of adventure stories

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, Violence, and War

Minor: Animal death and Slavery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calormen#Accusations_of_racism

applesodaperson's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

These books, especially the later ones, were honestly so racist. And also I think these books would have been better without the entire Christian allegory. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

cattheteawitchfairy's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Note: This edition has all 7 of The Chronicles of Narnia in. I am so glad to have re-read these books, especially as an 'adult'. They are timeless yet you pick up on new things everytime that you read them. Yes, they are books of their time meaning that the culture is very different and they are not as appropriate, compassionate or inclusive as we would expect in this age, but they are still wonderful books and I would highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Racism, and Alcohol

carrotsxcks's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent

jeynh's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

3.0

Fun overall, though it dragged at points. Definitely a product of it's time. I'm glad I read it, it was an OK time, but likely won't be picking it up again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Islamophobia

wetblanket's review against another edition

2.0

 Hear me out!!!!!! I picked this book up for two reasons. It's a "classic" and it was a childhood favourite of a dearly departed friend. I had very little knowledge of what this book was about other than it had Christian undertones/allegories. I had no problem with that. In fact it was interesting to look for them within in the text. BUT THE RACISM. WOW!

Some may say "it was a different time". NO.

The author knew what they were writing and the language they chose to use. It was unacceptable then but they chose to use those words.

Someone has to be good and someone has to be bad in these types of kids books but this author's clear racism towards (if not Turkish/Ottoman) middle eastern/asian people is clear. The author chose to use the name Aslan (or can also be spelt Arslan in some countries) to name the lion. Yet this actually means lion in Turkic and some asian languages.

For this reason I could only give 2 stars. These 2 stars were for the writing and the story. If some adjectives were changed this would be a great book, the story/writing is fun. But that would be something akin to censorship, which I don't support.

Read it if you want. But beware of the writing. If you want to read this to children, please read it first and make up your mind if you wish to expose this book to children. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism