Ihope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as susan and lucy were that night; but if you have been…you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. you feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again. at any rate that was how it felt to these two.

—from the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, by c. s. lewis
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Which type of story uses animals as characters in order to illustrate a general truth about human nature?

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