Do you like Jill and Eustace?

[Aslan The Great]

I don't much like Jill or Eustace. I wish The Silver Chair had Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy in it.

[holyboy]

I liked how Lewis switched characters throughout the book. Although Jill and Scrub are not my favourite characters, I think I would get bored if the story was always about the four kids. Plus, it gives a different perspective of different people and what they would do in Narnia, as opposed to it always being about the four Pevensies.

But to each their own

[elfjad]

I hated Eustace at first - he was so arrogant and snobbish. I didn't mind Jill so much. However, I grew to like both of them more by the end of the Chronicles. Still, I found these characters less inspiring than the Pevensie children. There was something more special about them that made the books more fantastical and enjoyable to my mind.

[unleavened]

I like them quite alot. I must admit it took awhile for the transition from the Pevensies to the new set to take place, but when it finally did, I dound I liked them just as much!

[lieke]

i like the pevensies more. they just fit in narnia, and it seems to me that Eustace and Jill don't do that as good as Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy did.
but i don't dislike them or something, i liked them in their own way

[polly&digory]

i like the pevensies more. they just fit in narnia, and it seems to me that Eustace and Jill don't do that as good as Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy did.
but i don't dislike them or something, i liked them in their own way
I don't think they are supposed to fit in. The others were royalty and spent way more time in Narnia. i really liked Jill because she was very scared and showed alot of really fear. Eustace was just fun because edmund wasn't a big pain in the ass anymore. Besides he got to be a dragon. =)

[EveningStar]

They were chosen not for what they did but for what they could do. Much as Samuel was warned not to look at David's older brothers who were tall and comely, but to look--as God did--upon the heart.

It is said that Michaelangelo would look at a marble block and see the art locked away inside. He would chip away what covered it.

Everyone has a work of art on the inside. The trick is seeing it inside the rough boulder we are on the outside.

Those stories are for the Eustaces and Jills of the world, encouraging them to hold up their heads and reach for great things.

[PrinceOfTheWest]

I agree - I always got a kick out of how Eustace and Jill responded when the were "bumped" into Narnia in Battle - they barely blinked, and got right to work. The Pevensies always had that Kings & Queens cachet, but Eustace & Jill were just ordinary kids - until they became Narnian heroes, that is! If they can, there's hope for all of us!

[Aslan The Great]

I don't know why I dislike them, but I do.

[slideyfoot]

I liked Eustace, because he's intriguing in his apparent atheist upbringing (The Silver Chair, p12; "...Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House" and p37; "...people at Experiment House haven't heard of Adam and Eve"), so someone I could identify with to a greater extent than the Pevensies (except perhaps for Susan, who seems both practical and skeptical). Also, I like the fact he appears to be a materialist, judging by his interest in fact over fiction (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, p1; "...He liked books if they were books of information" and p67; "...Edmund or Lucy or you would have recognised it [the dragon] at once, but Eustace had read none of the right books", paraphrased again on p80) and knowledge of botany (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, p179, "They can't be real lilies - not what we call lilies". I seem to remember a better example, something about Eustace 'probably being right', but didn't see it when I skimmed back over the books just now).

Perhaps what really warmed my heart to him was this little exchange:

"Well Narnia and balmier don't rhyme, to begin with," said Lucy.

"It's an assonance," said Eustace.

"Don't ask him what an assy-thingummy is," said Edmund. "He's only longing to be asked. Say nothing and perhaps he'll go away."

Displaying some knowledge of poetic form immediately put me on his side, particularly as the others showed no interest whatsoever. Poetry is my academic area, and I wonder if this meant that Lewis, also a scholar of poetry, also had a soft spot for Eustace. ;)

[Ara]

I don't much like Jill or Eustace. I wish The Silver Chair had Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy in it.

I kinda agree, Jill is kinda a ninny at the start and so is Eustace (plus what kind of name is Eustace???I've never heard of it before!)

Ara

[Ara]

I don't think they are supposed to fit in. The others were royalty and spent way more time in Narnia. i really liked Jill because she was very scared and showed alot of really fear. Eustace was just fun because edmund wasn't a big pain in the ass anymore. Besides he got to be a dragon. =)

I'm jealous you live in NZ and everyone else who lives in cool places.

Arqa

[unleavened]

I think Jill and Eustace are a perfect illistration of how we can completely mess things up and God can still bring good out of it.

[*Hawaii Beach Babe*]

I think Jill and Eustace are a perfect illistration of how we can completely mess things up and God can still bring good out of it.
I totally agree.

[queen_aravis]

Hmmm...well, you could say that. I mean, Jill and Eustace had good intentions and that's sort of what was brought out more in the end, wasn't it?

I personally love them both, and I love their friendship because they end up truly caring about each other. Of course, I hated Eustace at first, but I ended up liking him very much...though well, the Pevensies will always be the Pevensies - except perhaps Miss-no-longer-a-friend-of-Narnia...you know who I'm talking about.