Digors Chapter Summaries

The title of the book introduces one of the main characters, Digory, who is the nephew of Mr. Andrew Ketterly, a minor magician. The story begins in London during the summer of 1900 where two children, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer who live in a row of connected houses, meet while playing in their gardens and decide to travel through the passages in the attic to get into a vacant house and explore it.

In place of discovering an abandoned house, the children find themselves to have appeared into a forbidden study room that belonged to Digory's Uncle, Andrew. When Uncle Andrew realizes that these children were in his study, he pretends and tires to scare the children by telling them that he would keep them captive, but later feels sympathetic and lets them go. As Polly was leaving he gave her a present of a yellow ring touching which, Polly vanishes. Digory is told that Polly had been sent to an alternate world and the only way that she could be saved was if Digory put on the yellow ring himself and followed her. Digory took with him a pair of green rings that were meant to bring
The woods seemed to be magical as the children took some time to remember who the other was. There were many pools like the one Digory emerged out of and the children inferred that every pool led to a different world. The children went into one of the pools and found themselves in a world with a red sun and no other life. Digory was curious and wanted to explore the ruins. They stumble into a room with wax figures that were life size dressed in royal costumes. Digory cheekily rang a large magical bell in the center of the room causing one of the wax figures to wake up. Her name was Jadis, the last ruler who was the queen in the realm of Charn. Jadis scared the children when she discloses to them that she created a spell to demolish each living animal in