Becoming C.S. Lewis

During his youth, the boy who would become C. S. Lewis formed his most basic impressions and tastes regarding music, art, literature, religion, sports, friendship, imagination, education, war, and more. The issues young “Jack” Lewis wrestled with drove him toward the foundation on which his life would be built. His childhood interests, influences, longings, struggles, and even failures prepared him to engage his gifts as a writer, teacher, and friend.

Lewis expert Harry Lee Poe unfolds young Jack’s key relationships, hobbies, spiritual conflicts, decisions, desires, and dreams. Along the way, Poe points out where these themes reappear in Lewis’s later works—bringing to life the importance of his conversion and his surprising discovery of joy.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Chapter 1: Young Jack Lewis at Wynward School | 1908-1910
4. Chapter 2: Off to Malvern| 1910-1914
5. Chapter 3: Making a Friend |Spring 1914
6. Chapter 4: Jack and War Come to Great Bookham | Fall 1914
7. Chapter 5: Reading for Kirkpatrick and for Pleasre | 1914
8. Chapter 6: War and Romance | 1915
9. Chapter 7: A Conflicted Soul | 1916
10. Chapter 8: Oxford and War | 1917-1918
11. Chapter 9: The End of Youth
12. Closing Credits