Getting more details on the young characters from Chronicles of Narnia -for Adults

How important was it to get Peter, Susan,Edmund and Lucy out of London? – the trip that begins their journey to Narnia.

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Do you know the reason for the trip? Explain. Would you send your own children away under this kind of circumstances? Why? Why not? Think of potential problems this would cause. (Ideal for a good Writing activity)

On September 7, 1940, Adolf Hitler’s bombers appeared over the skies of London. During the two months before, the German Air Force had bombed British airfields and radar stations outside of Britain’s cities. But now Hitler turned his attention to London and its nine million people. He wanted to invade Britain. Part
of Hitler’s reason for attacking the city of London was to destroy business and commercial targets. But Hitler also wanted to destroy the morale, or spirit and hopefulness of the British people.
So it was that at about five o’clock in the afternoon, on September 7,
1940, the first bombers arrived to drop “incendiary bombs” on the London docks. Incendiary bombs are bombs used to start fires. It was the light of the docks on fire that guided the other bombers to their targets in the darkness of the night. In this way, bombing continued throughout the night – until 4:30 the next morning. This was the start of the Blitz. (Blitz is from the German word “blitzkrieg,” meaning “lightning war.”) The Blitz fell upon all of London. Countless shops, offices, churches, factories, docks and homes were destroyed. It was nine months before Londoners were able to enjoy a full night’s sleep, free of air raids, free of sirens, free of the screaming, shattering sounds of bombs falling all around them. The
Blitz ended on May 11, 1941, when Hitler called off the raids so that he could move his bombers east to invade Russia.
More than 800,000 schoolchildren were sent away from London during the War to live in safety in the countryside, along with more than 100,000 teachers and helpers and more than 500,000 children under school age, who left with their mothers.
The Blitz is the reason the four Pevensie children were sent away from London. Their mother felt they would be safer in the country, away from the bombing of the city. Little did their mother know that the four children would leave one war behind, only to find themselves fighting in another kind of war altogether!