The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader releases, and grossed $9.5 million. In the 2011 New Year's weekend, the film increased 8% from the previous weekend, grossing $10.3 million. On January 22, 2011, the film's forty-fourth day in theaters, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" became 20th Century Fox's first film to gross $100 million in the United States and Canada since "" crossed that mark in December 2009. However, it is the slowest "Narnia" film to reach $100 million in these regions, taking much longer than "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (nine days) and "Prince Caspian" (thirteen days). Overseas, the film performed better. On
The Chronicles of Narnia Chronicles". It was a work that was " a great balm to the soul". Plato was an undeniable influence on Lewis’s writing of "The Chronicles". Most clearly, Digory explicitly invokes Plato's name at the end of "The Last Battle", to explain how the old version of Narnia is but a shadow of the newly revealed “true” Narnia. Plato’s influence is also apparent in "The Silver Chair" when the Queen of the Underland attempts to convince the protagonists that the surface world is not real. She echoes the logic of Plato’s Cave by comparing the sun to a nearby lamp, arguing