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anna bandana Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:58 pm
sykothasadistik anna bandana sykothasadistik anna bandana I got into Narnia after seeing the movies and read the books after. Which is why I'm not critical over the films like other devout C. S Lewis extremists. The Last Battle gonk Makes me cry. The end of The Last Battle's ending was seriously a huge mind f*** to me. I'm still baffled over it. I understand it... it just doesn't seem like a Lewis style ending. I dont want to get feminist on his a**, but I really didnt like how Susan ended up not dying 'or going to heaven/Narnia' She's got caught up in nylons, lipstick and invitations. And the wholde dying of the beloved characters irked me too. (Sarcasticly) Oh and I love the message of hey lets go die in a train accident and we'll go to Narnia! I cant imagine the legions of kids tramautized by that. Well I would have been.
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:50 pm
Spoiler: While reading the series I was very disappointed that Susan was "no longer a friend of Narnia". It's very frustrating. I found it pointless, I know through Prince Caspian she started to forget about Narnia, but still. Susan is just too great to not have her in the series.
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anna bandana Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:41 pm
Susan didn't get to join her family! I still love the Narnia series but that ending is not going down on my list of Favourites.
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:37 pm
It's nice and all they end up in Narnia, but Susan is stuck in a nightmare. It didn't bring anything to the series when they kicked Susan out. Personally I think C.S. Lewis should of kept her with her siblings.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:50 pm
I never liked Susan and wasn't suprised at the ending in terms of her not believing any more. I still say it was a messed up ending though.
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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:07 pm
sykothasadistik I never liked Susan and wasn't suprised at the ending in terms of her not believing any more. I still say it was a messed up ending though. How could you not like Susan!? She's totally awesome, one of my favorites! Who's your favorite character? 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:05 am
I read PC a few months ago, then I read LWW. I finished MN before '08 ended. And just a few days ago I got into the books again...HHB I started Monday, ended Tuesday. I started and finished VDT last Wednesday, started and finished TSC yesterday, and I'm on LB already. So I'm reading it in the order of 4, 2, 1, 3, 5, 6, 7.
Speaking of the Susan issue (I'm not there yet, but I did some looking up), I just want to say...thank you, PAUL F. FORD! (author of "Companion to Narnia") Some snipets on the entry for SUSAN:
-"As a young, beautiful, black-haired woman, she is so held hostage to her fears and to her desire to be thought mature and attractive that she is not included among those who are allowed to ented Aslan's Country." (LB)
-"...uncharacteristic lapse of style on Lewis's part." (N/A)
-..."a careful reading of her story shows that her fall is much better prepared for than some critics think..." (N/A)
-"...like an adult, she has know." (LWW)
-"...Corin senses her withdrawal from complete Narnian involvement." (HHB)
-"...she recalls Cair Paravel 'in a dreamy and rather sing-song voice.' Since the only other person in Narnia with a singsong voice is the Queen of the Underland and since this is a vocal quality that Lewis did not like, it is a faint foreshadowing that all is not right with Susan." (PC, TSC)
-"It is possible that her pride is offended by the thought that Aslan favors her little sister." (PC)
-"...Susan is caught between the conflicting desires to be always a child and to be completely grown up." (PC)
-"Polly completes the assessment (and echoes Lewis's own opinion on this chief temptation of youth) with her observation that Susan is truly immature in wanting to grow up to a certain age..." (LB)
-"Susan's is one of the most important unfinished tales of the Chronicles." (N/S)
Footnotes:
-"Lewis intends only to explain how it is possible to reject the joy that comes from being in Narnia..." (N/A)
-"...as a woman of twenty-one who has just lost her entire family in a terrible crash, she will have much to work through..." (LB)
-"...she might change to become truly the gentle person she has the potential for being..." (N/A)
-"Perhaps one of the reasons he is able to write so well of Susan's character is that he experience in his own personality her reluctances, fears, and desire to be thought adult..." (N/A)
That was a lot of typing and reading through. I think I spoiled some parts for me...I was disappointed when I found out that Susan was only interested in "nylons and lipsticks and invitations." She was favorite character in the entire series.
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