In the Last Battle (chronicles of narnia) where is susan?why dsnt she believe??

Question

She wasnt one of the 7 friends of Narnia. and they said whenever they talk about Narnia susan says " what fun games we used to play when we were young" and dosent believe that its real any more. and in the end of the book when they see the're parents it dosent say anything about susan. so what i'm wondering is what happened to susan??? is she with them or is she still alive??
what do you think???

Answer 1

I agree with most of what is being posted. Susan wasn't with the others on the train so she wasn't transported to Narnia. While the other three children (Peter, Lucy, Edmund) are killed in this world, Susan remains alive. Narnia is destroyed so there is no going back for Susan. But that still doesn't address the issue of heaven. Yes, Susan was at the time preoccupied with worldly material things. (Probably interested in dressing up and flirting with boys and whatnot.) Narnia may be closed, but I believe it is open-ended on whether Susan is eternally lost. After all, people are always changing, growing, and re-prioritizing their lives. What is important to a teenage girl, may not be so important four or five years down the road. So I don't think she should be considered a hopeless cause. She had her whole life ahead of her to decide her ultimate destiny.

Answer 2

Susan was still alive. She didn't believe in Narnia or Aslan anymore so she couldn't enter Narnia. (also she wasn't with them on the train accident). She made herself believe that Narnia was just a silly game they played.All she was interested in was parties,clothes,etc. So she represents the "ones who didn't believe". But as Aslan said " Once a King or Queen of Narnia, always a King or Queen"..so who knows? Maybe losing her entire family will be a big effect for Susan and she'll start beliveing again.


But I was sad at the end about Susan.

Answer 3

In you look to Prince Caspian, Aslan tells both Susan and Peter that they will not return again because they would be to old. In fact, we learn that as she aged she shifted her focus off Narnia and became rather worldly. She came to think of Narnia more as a game than a place. She remembers the 'silly games we used to play as children'. With further analysis we see that Susan was known as the pretty one. She is described 'interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations'. Susan chose prettiness and society over Narnia. Because of this she became what Peter described her as "no longer a friend of Narnia'. Thus, her pointedly obvious absence from the good graces of Narnia.

Answer 4

Susan grew up. Lady Polly says that she tried to get to the silliest period of her life as quickly as possible and stay there as long as possible, being interested only in lipstick, nylons and invitations. She was not on the train, so was not with the others who crashed.

However, C S Lewis did say that he had more plans for Susan; she was not intended to be excluded from Narnia - "once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia". The Lady Polly and Lord Diggory were older and were still friends of Narnia.

I think that C S Lewis is just saying that we should retain our childlike qualities and wonder and not be too worshipful of material things; but I don't think at all that he is excluding anyone from "heaven".

There are some explanatory articles on the net; here are one or two for you to read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Battle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Pevensie
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8836/susan2.html

Answer 5

The answers above are all good ones.One point to add though...

In his dedication of 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe', C.S. Lewis writes, "My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not yet realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again...'

In the same way that Lucy has grown too old for fairy tales, Susan has grown too old for Narnia. But perhaps it was Lewis' intention to keep us wondering if one day, Susan will be old enough to believe again...

I would like to think that she would.

Answer 6

Susan wasn't on one of the trains that crashed inthe book, so we presume that she is still alive. Pretty hard luck on her, but there you go.

Obviously, something has happened to remove her faith. She is essentially a symbol for a non-Christian person. (The series being based heavily on Christianity and drawing similarities with parts of the bible)

Of course, the other factor is that there are then, quite handily, seven friends of Narnia to tie with the seven books. It could be that she was sacrificed in order to make this symmetry.

Answer 7

edmud, lucy and peter died in a train crash and were taken to narnia after they died. they probably died at the end of the last battle then were transported to narnia.

Answer 8

I don't know what happened to her, but I'm mad that she stopped believing!!!