This book is sad?

[The White Stag]

I thought that this story was sad because Susan and Peter could not go to Narnia any more as they were too old. :( But I thought that when Eustace sept by that dragon I thought that was really scary :eek: Ahhhhhh I was shouting 'wake up!' oh no but he got away :o so that was good but didn't the dragon wake up? :confused: Oh I9 haven't read it for ages so I can't remeber.

[inkspot]

It's sad to think the older children won't return to Narnia, but the reasoning is: they must learnt o know Aslan in their own world. Because we know CS Lewis was a Christian, we know he meant that the kids would come to know Jesus, our Aslan. That is very heartening.

[LifeMaiden]

It was sad that the children didn't get to return to Narnia, and while they knew so, but you also knew that they would meet Aslan again, if in a different shape and form. There were other melancholy moments about the book to me, such as when you knew Reepicheep was going to Aslan's land, and when Caspian had to return with his crew back to Narnia without his beloved Pevensie friends and even Eustace.

[-Daughter of Eve-]

I thought that this story was sad because Susan and Peter could not go to Narnia any more as they were too old. :( But I thought that when Eustace sept by that dragon I thought that was really scary :eek: Ahhhhhh I was shouting 'wake up!' oh no but he got away :o so that was good but didn't the dragon wake up? :confused: Oh I9 haven't read it for ages so I can't remeber.

Yes,I think it's sad that the older Pevensies couldn't go back to Narnia.

[Darmoln]

I think that there aren’t sad books in CoN. All of them are lightness. There are individual sad moments in books, of course, but there aren’t all books sad.

[LifeMaiden]

There was something sort of sad and pathetic about that old dragon that died, the one that Eustace saw before he went in the cave and got transformed himself. You wonder how long that old dragon had been there all alone and miserable.

[Aslan's Beloved Daughter]

I thought that it was sad when Reepicheep left...

[Aslan'sFriend410]

That book as a whole I think I would sum up as bittersweet. Definitely one of my favorites though but it was a heart-wrencing one for me for many of the reasons mentioned already. I did feel sorry for Eustace when he was turned into a dragon, even though his mischievious character was not with my agreeable side. But it was cool when Aslan helped him become human again and he changed. Hearing also that Susan and Peter were too old was a somber moment until I remembered what was mentioned above about them needing to find Jesus in their own world. Reepicheep going to Aslan's country also was a bittersweet moment, although I kind of envied him. He got to go where everyone else couldn't and, I think may have wanted to. Definitely one of my favorites for sure!!!

[Malacandra]

That book as a whole I think I would sum up as bittersweet. Definitely one of my favorites though but it was a heart-wrencing one for me for many of the reasons mentioned already. I did feel sorry for Eustace when he was turned into a dragon, even though his mischievious character was not with my agreeable side. But it was cool when Aslan helped him become human again and he changed. Hearing also that Susan and Peter were too old was a somber moment until I remembered what was mentioned above about them needing to find Jesus in their own world. Reepicheep going to Aslan's country also was a bittersweet moment, although I kind of envied him. He got to go where everyone else couldn't and, I think may have wanted to. Definitely one of my favorites for sure!!!

Nitpick: not Susan and Peter. They'd already got the bad news in Prince Caspian. This was Edmund and Lucy's last trip.

[PrinceOfTheWest]

I think that's one reason why the story is such a good metaphor for the journey of life: it's bittersweet. I remember feeling the same way, especially after the children were sent along in the boat by themselves with only Reep and his coracle, and then he sailed off (after throwing away his sword! What a gesture!), and all they could do was turn south and keep rowing toward what they knew not. Even though they were together, they were alone, if you know what I mean. All the fun and fellowship they'd had, and even Reep's cheerful company, was left behind. Very poignant.

[Kate12whisper13]

I guess it is quite sad but it does have a point that Susan and Peter can't go to Narnia again as they are getting older, they would start to stop beleiving in Narnia anyways because they would think it was "Childish talk"

[I♥Georgie]

i hate when thay can't go back to narnia :( :mad: :eek:

[Pratterson]

I thought that it was sad when Reepicheep left...

I didn't. I think Reep rocks, and the fact he left the way he wanted to was beautiful. And I thought the description of when he left was brilliant ^_^

[deegec]

There is at least one part in every book that makes me cry, but I wouldn't say it makes me sad. Does make me ache for Heaven though.

[MrsKeynes x3]

I don't understand at all why they become too old for Narnia. You'd think Aslan would let anyone in, I never knew there was an age limit. I dunno, I think it's just kinda dumb.
And also, look how old Mr. Tumnus is and Mr. and Mrs. Beaver and everyone else.
Can someone explain all this to me?

[Lucy_QueenofNarnia]

I don't understand at all why they become too old for Narnia. You'd think Aslan would let anyone in, I never knew there was an age limit. I dunno, I think it's just kinda dumb.
And also, look how old Mr. Tumnus is and Mr. and Mrs. Beaver and everyone else.
Can someone explain all this to me?

Since CS Lewis was a Christian, one of the main themes in the Chronicles is that as the children grow older the must learn to know Aslan in their own world, Jesus.

And of course the Beasts who live in Narnia get to grow old--they live in Narnia, they aren't from another world.

[Isilwin14]

i dont think its to sad its probably my fave book n all 7 but i cried about reep leaving(exageration) its not to bad that the older ones left after all they come to know jesus and we end up finding out that they live for eternity in the REAL narnia anyway

[Sir Godfrey]

It's sad to think the older children won't return to Narnia, but the reasoning is: they must learnt o know Aslan in their own world. Because we know CS Lewis was a Christian, we know he meant that the kids would come to know Jesus, our Aslan. That is very heartening.

I know what you mean, especially Aslan's famous lines at the end of the book. When Edmund asked Aslan if he was in there world too in, Aslan response was "I am, but there I am known by a diffrent name, and you shall get to know me by that name"- "That was the reason you came to Narnia, was to know me a little here, so that you may better know me there" (Exuse me if it isn't an exact qoute for I'm not looking at the book). Ps. I totally got that C.S. Lewis was saying in these last words of Aslan. He was depicting that Aslan was Christ in our world.

[Jadee]

Since CS Lewis was a Christian, one of the main themes in the Chronicles is that as the children grow older the must learn to know Aslan in their own world, Jesus.

And of course the Beasts who live in Narnia get to grow old--they live in Narnia, they aren't from another world.

Yup, you're right, they already live there, and should stay there, unless you get kicked out of you own world just cause you are getting older (sometimes I wish that, though)

[Jadee]

I thought that it was sad when Reepicheep left...

Yes, I was sad at first, but he did want he wanted to do, so try to cheer up :) Unless he really did fall off of the world or something! :eek:

[Sir Godfrey]

Yeah, Aslan is wise and always does the right thing. After all we all have to sometime return to the our world.

[Edmund_Aslan]

i cried reading the end. It breaks my heart everytime when Lucy says 'It's not Narnia, u know. It's you!! We shant meet u there. And how can we live, never meeting you?'

[Sir Godfrey]

i cried reading the end. It breaks my heart everytime when Lucy says 'It's not Narnia, u know. It's you!! We shant meet u there. And how can we live, never meeting you?'

Yeah, but he also says he's in are world too and that he goes by another name (Hint* Jesus).

[inkspot]

Reep's departure is sad in VDT, but we do see him again; we know he does come to Aslan's country. So his story is not ultimately sad, but rather, triumphant. I like it because, in Mere Christianity, for adults, Lewis says something like: any desire you have on earth which cannot be fulfilled by anything on earth must then be pointing to heaven -- the only place it can be fulfilled. He says on earth we have a desire for food, and there is food here. We have a desire for company, and there are other people here. But what about our desires for another world, a longing to known and be known more intimately than is ever possible on earth, our dreams of flying ... these desires can never be met, so what are they for? They must be met somehow in a life to come, a world we cannot yet see or imagine.

Reep's heart's desire was for the fulfillment of his prophecy: to come to the utter East, and at last, to Aslan's country. It was a desire which could not be fulfilled in Narnia, but in Reepicheep's story, we see how it can be fulfilled, in the world to come. It is quite an encouragement, isn't it, to know that our desires for God's country, can also be fulfilled, if we follow them as single-mindedly as Reep did.

All the time we knew him as a gallant warrior with a stringent code of ethics, his princely behavior was motivated by the one driving force of his life: to come at last to Aslan's country. He's a model for us, if our desire is to come, at last, to God's country.
:)

[Sir Godfrey]

Reep's departure is sad in VDT, but we do see him again; we know he does come to Aslan's country. So his story is not ultimately sad, but rather, triumphant. I like it because, in Mere Christianity, for adults, Lewis says something like: any desire you have on earth which cannot be fulfilled by anything on earth must then be pointing to heaven -- the only place it can be fulfilled. He says on earth we have a desire for food, and there is food here. We have a desire for company, and there are other people here. But what about our desires for another world, a longing to known and be known more intimately than is ever possible on earth, our dreams of flying ... these desires can never be met, so what are they for? They must be met somehow in a life to come, a world we cannot yet see or imagine.

Reep's heart's desire was for the fulfillment of his prophecy: to come to the utter East, and at last, to Aslan's country. It was a desire which could not be fulfilled in Narnia, but in Reepicheep's story, we see how it can be fulfilled, in the world to come. It is quite an encouragement, isn't it, to know that our desires for God's country, can also be fulfilled, if we follow them as single-mindedly as Reep did.

All the time we knew him as a gallant warrior with a stringent code of ethics, his princely behavior was motivated by the one driving force of his life: to come at last to Aslan's country. He's a model for us, if our desire is to come, at last, to God's country.
:)

Well at least he's in True Narnia in The Last Battle.