What's the theme of The Horse and HIs Boy?

Question

What's the theme of this book?? Please give me some websites~ Thank you.

Answer 1

Plot Summary

A young boy called Shasta has been found and raised by Arsheesh, a Calormene fisherman. Arsheesh agrees to sell the boy to a powerful Calormene feudal noble. Shasta is glad to hear that he is not the fisherman's true son, and awaits his new master in the donkey stable outside the fisherman's house. As he muses aloud, the noble's stallion, Bree, begins to talk to Shasta, who is astounded. Together the pair decide to escape a life of servitude in Calormen by riding north for Narnia. They meet another pair of escaping travellers,Aravis, a young Calormene aristocrat, and her talking horse, Hwin. Aravis is fleeing a forced marriage to the Tisroc's grand vizier

When the four arrive at the capital city of Calormen, Tashbaan, they are forced to travel through it. They encounter a procession of visiting Narnian royalty, who see Shasta and mistake him for Corin, a prince of Archenland, who was traveling with the Narnians but had run away. Shasta is too scared to protest. He discovers that the Narnians are planning to escape from Calormen for fear of being kept prisoner if Queen Susan refuses to marry the Calormene prince, Rabadash. When Shasta is alone, the real Prince Corin climbs through the window; he takes his rightful place and Shasta escapes.

Meanwhile, Aravis has been spotted by her noblewoman friend Lasaraleen, but warns the girl not to tell anyone that she has seen her. Lasaraleen agrees, although she cannot understand why Aravis would want to leave the luxurious life of the Calormene nobility. She helps Aravis to escape through the palace, although en route the two narrowly avoid running into the Tisroc and take refuge in one of his private rooms. They briefly hide behind a sofa, and overhear the Tisroc giving his son permission to attack Archenland as a means of later invading Narnia.

Once outside the city, Aravis rejoins Shasta and the Horses. The four of them make the unpleasant journey across the desert to try and warn the people of Archenland and Narnia that the Calormenes are coming to wage war on them. A pursuing lion (later revealed to be Aslan) forces the travellers into moving at great speed, although in the process, Aravis is injured (in punishment for her mistreatment of her former servant) and the horses become exhausted. These three rest with an old hermit while Shasta continues alone. He meets and warns the Archenland army, who are able to defeat the Calormenes. King Lune of Archenland sees that Shasta is really Cor, the long lost elder twin of Prince Corin and heir to the throne. Aravis and Cor live in Archenland thereafter and eventually marry years later.

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Answer 2

C. S. Lewis & Narnia Chronicles sites.
http://books.narnia.com/

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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