After bringing back the silver apple to Aslan, Digory forgets his troubles and feels content. Why do you think he feels this way? The magician's nephew

After giving the apple to Aslan, Digory feels more content, peaceful. C. S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia to be Christian fiction therefore this scene symbolizes giving up temptation(s) to God. Digory was tempted to take the apple to heal his mother, to eat the apple, to take part of the apple to his mother. He was relieved of all this temptation when he gave it to Aslan, who let him take one from the new tree that sprouted from the one Digory had brought back to heal his mother.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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