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Out of the Silent Planet C.S Lewis

Out of the Silent Planet's main character is Dr. Erwin Ransom a Philology professor, working at a well known college called University of Cambridge. The story opens up with Dr. Ransom setting out on a hiking trip in the English midlands. He comes by a small isolated cottage, where an elderly woman subsides. As the lady talks him into staying for a night, she introduces him to Professor Weston and Mr Devin, which he then discovers Devine is an old school acquaintance whom he disliked a little back then. After settling down, he unexpectedly receives a beverage from Mr Devine which he enjoyed happily before losing conscious. When he awakened, he came to realize the beverage was drugged. He then realizes that he was held captive in a spherical spacecraft by Devine and Weston, he learns that they plan to sacrifice him to the inhabitants of Malacandra. As time went by, the unidentified spacecraft landed on planet Malacandra, with alien like figures named Sorns ready to make the sacrifice. Dr. Ransom lunges for freedom, hiding himself in the closest forest where he happens to meet more bizarre creatures as his adventure progresses.

The characteristics of Dr. Ransom are he's a tall man around about his late 30's, he's a curious man when it comes to language studies for example he was drawn in by the extraordinary Malacandra Language. He appears to be mild mannered, willing, courageous and sometimes quite surprising. The three most interesting inhabitants on planet Malacandra are the Hrossa, Seroni and Pfifltriggi. Hrossa has similar resemblance with the seal and otter. The other is Seroni which has the image of a humanoid with pale feathers covering its body and seven fingered hands. The third one is Pfifltriggi with a pig or tapir like head and frog matching bodies.

As i read the book, C.S Lewis used many different writing techniques such as typical humour, he also wrote it in third person view which have the reader a very wide imagination. He gave a lot of description that seemed to give you that image in your head straight away without hesitating about, 'What are the colours?' 'Does it look like a frog?' 'Is it tall?'

My response to the books is really thrilling, its the type of book where you don't know what's going to happen next, unlike some of the other books where you can assume what's going to happen in the situation. C.S Lewis has a creative mind to think of all these devastating chapters, 'Out of the Silent Planet' and 'Narnia' are both brilliant stories that have many great twists towards the endings of the story. I would recommend this book to all ages, since its a wonderful stunning book with great vocabulary and storyline.