汗" Male, 14, Single. Hong Kong

It is an interesting and meaningful story, without any doubt. It is a bit childish but everyone will love it. It is fairy tale-styled and also realistic.
People are always superficial, looking only the surface of things, without knowing the deep. Well, it is the widest gap between people, which separates us.

(The last 2 paragraph is the conclusion, if the evidence and analysis is too long, you may skip)

Of course, the only way to know about people is to ask direct questions about the one, and listen direct answers, but who will do this to a person you don't know very well? Most of us don't. Therefore, quarrels between people grows larger and larger. It is what I am afraid of.

Moreover, our defensive thinking stops us from further knowing a person, who may be harmful. In fact, it is not true most of the time. Why are we so defensive? Because of experience? Fear? All of them are excuse. The one is prejudice. People believe the one they know, who may give wrong suggestions, but not the one they don't know. We were once childs, who should be protected, and we were taught to be defensive indirectly (don't touch that, don't talk to strangers, don't eat that etc.) . It is not bad but also not good. There should be a reason given why not to do this and that. The reason of that is danger, but no one told us how dangerous it is, why it is dangerous or even it is dangerous.

We don't know that who the stranger is, and we cannot make accurate prediction. Therefore, saying that strangers are dangerous is irrational at all.

Who should we believe? Ourselves. We may make wrong decision and regret. But at least we can learn lessons. We may make a decision to believe others, but not believing irrationally. (Believing what I say without thinking is also irrational)

Prejudice is made because we don't know about unknown, which is not predictable, but it is neutral instead of negative.

The story is about death, which can be considered as a stranger to us. For me, death is also unknown, and which is neutral, not negative.

What I want to say is, unknown is not scary, our prejudice and misunderstanding towards unknown is dreadful.

The book has been rewritten as a film before. The book and the film are surely not exactly the same but they still can keep the plot of the story. In addition, the perfect ending set a good opening for the next book. I am looking forward to reading the next story in the series of the Chronicles of Narnia.