<P> A number of aspects of The Magician 's Nephew parallel Lewis ' own life . Both Digory and Lewis were children in the early 1900s , both wanted a pony , and both were faced with the death of their mothers in childhood . Digory is separated from his father , who is in India , and misses him . Lewis was schooled in England after his mother 's death , while his father remained in Ireland . He also had a brother in India . Lewis was a voracious reader when a child , Digory is also , and both are better with books than with numbers . Digory ( and Polly ) struggle with sums when trying to work out how far they must travel along the attic space to explore an abandoned house , Lewis failed the maths entrance exam for Oxford University . Lewis remembered rainy summer days from his youth and Digory is faced with the same woe in the novel . Additionally Digory becomes a professor when he grows up , who takes in evacuated children during World War II . </P>
<P> A number of aspects of The Magician 's Nephew parallel Lewis ' own life . Both Digory and Lewis were children in the early 1900s , both wanted a pony , and both were faced with the death of their mothers in childhood . Digory is separated from his father , who is in India , and misses him . Lewis was schooled in England after his mother 's death , while his father remained in Ireland . He also had a brother in India . Lewis was a voracious reader when a child , Digory is also , and both are better with books than with numbers . Digory ( and Polly ) struggle with sums when trying to work out how far they must travel along the attic space to explore an abandoned house , Lewis failed the maths entrance exam for Oxford University . Lewis remembered rainy summer days from his youth and Digory is faced with the same woe in the novel . Additionally Digory becomes a professor when he grows up , who takes in evacuated children during World War II . </P>
when did the magician 's nephew take place
when did the magician 's nephew take place
the early 1900s
the early 1900s