Was Susan left behind?
In chapter 12 Through the Stable Door, Peter states to Tirian that Susan is no longer a friend of Narnia. She believes that Narnia is no more than a child's game and seems to have forgotten the real adventures she had there. Susan is now too grown up. Polly says,
"I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time
wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest
of her life trying to stay that age. Her whole idea is to race on
to the sillieest time of one's life as quick as she can and then stop
there as long as she can." (Chapter 12)
Susan's priorities have turned and now Narnia is no longer something on her list of priorities. So this leads me to my question, at the end Lucy, Peter, and Edmund see their parents and the real England in the New Narnia but Susan seems to be missing (chapter 16). Has Susan's grown up attitude prevented her from going to New Narnia? I'm interested in everybody else's ideas about this.
In chapter 12 Through the Stable Door, Peter states to Tirian that Susan is no longer a friend of Narnia. She believes that Narnia is no more than a child's game and seems to have forgotten the real adventures she had there. Susan is now too grown up. Polly says,
"I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time
wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest
of her life trying to stay that age. Her whole idea is to race on
to the sillieest time of one's life as quick as she can and then stop
there as long as she can." (Chapter 12)
Susan's priorities have turned and now Narnia is no longer something on her list of priorities. So this leads me to my question, at the end Lucy, Peter, and Edmund see their parents and the real England in the New Narnia but Susan seems to be missing (chapter 16). Has Susan's grown up attitude prevented her from going to New Narnia? I'm interested in everybody else's ideas about this.
posted by Emily at 8:26 PM
2 Comments:
I don't know if this will help, but when I read the part of "The Last Battle" concerning Susan being left out of Narnia it brought something to mind. James 4:4b "Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God."
Now I know everything in the book isn't directly paralleled in the Bible, but this struck me as I was reading. Susan obviously has lost her ability to believe in Narnia because of her fixation on her grown up life, or at least thats what I gathered from what I read. The part that bothers me is that it almost seems like everyone else has given up on her, and they don't seem to be bothered too much with the fact that she is not with them. I'm not sure what happened in the books between "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "The Last Battle" with Susan, but I would be curious to find out if there is more to this story.
Throughout the Last Battle, there is very little mention about Susan. The way that I understand Susan's lack of presence in the New England and New Narnia is that she has not died yet.
On page 743 (Chapter 13, second page)Edmund and Peter are explaining to Jill and Eustace how they had gotten to Narnia. In the end, it sounds like a huge train wreck killed all the people involved in the attempt to get back to Narnia, and since Susan doesn't believe in Narnia, there would be no reason why she would be there to help with the quest. I think that thier parents being on the same train was just a way for Lewis to show that heaven isn't limited to the New Narnia. That just because they are in the New Narnia doesn't mean that they will never see thier parents again.
I look at that the fact Susan was left behind because she wasn't at the train station or on the train when it crashed. But I also think that what dcliff said also plays a part into this as well.
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