Chapter 8: Powerful Writing

C. S. Lewis wrote 7 books on a fantasy world called Narnia.  In his 3rd book, The Horse and His Boy, there's a point where Shasta, who is the main character, got split from his friends and had to spend the night among some tombs called The Tombs of the Kings.  Here he met a cat who lived at the tombs.  Here is a price from the the book: "The cat stared at him harder than ever.  Then it started walking away, and of course Shasta followed it.  It led him right through the tombs and out on the desert side of them.  There it sat down bolt upright with its tail curled round its feet and its face set toward the desert and toward Narnia and the North, as still as if it were watching for some enemy.  Shasta lay down beside it with his back against the cat and his face toward the Tombs, because if one is nervous there's nothing like having your face toward the danger and having something warm and solid at your back."  I really liked how C. S. Lewis used the personal felling of having someone near you when you are scared.  It was so well written that I felt like I was Shasta.  At least for this part, making a personal connection with the reader is a good tip for me to improve my writing skills.