What Do you think could have happened to Susan?

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Well We all know that C.S. Lewis did not continue the story of Susan but only was mentioned "no longer a friend of narnia".
I'm really curious about your opinions. What could have happen to Susan?

I read this Statement in Wiki

"Susan does not enter into Narnia because she wasn't in the train when the accident happened and she had lost her faith. She remaines alive on Earth, the only one who was left of all the travelers to Narnia."

So does this mean that she will never enter narnia again even if she dies in earth?
 
Well, no one will enter the "mortal" Narnia again after the events of "The Last Battle;" it isn't there anymore. But Aslan's Country, which is Heaven, can be entered as surely from our world as from the Narnian cosmos. It really really sticks in the throat to think of Susan actually ending up being all darned to Heck, and there's no reason why she couldn't go to the altar at a church and be as surely restored to God's fellowship as if He had walked up to her in the form of Aslan and given her the Lion's kiss.
 
CF's absolutely right. I have always thought that Susan would have someday "returned to the faith"-especially after going through the pain and anguish of losing her family to a train wreck! Susan very much enjoys material things and falls into the trap of finds her enjoyment in them rather than the One who gives us material things to enjoy. In my mind, after living that lifestyle for a while, she would see the emptiness and shallowness, and would remember the joy, love, hope, and meaning in her younger days (especially narnian days). And as she reflects on the uncertainty and frailty of life, especially helped by seeing how short the lives of her dear family members were, she would eventually realize again what is most important and repent-whether this would take her days or years down the line.

As you might imagine, there have been several stories written about this, one I would particularly recommend is Alaina's (NarnianPrincess) called The Rest of the Story. She writes it better than I could express it here!
 
In another Thread here. I read about Aslan Saying that Once A king and Queen of Narnia, always a King and Queen of Narnia. That Actually given me relief that Susan despite all is still gonna come back to narnia when she dies. C.S. Lewis once stated in his letter to martin, a young fan that he believed Susan would come back to Narnia in her own way. Surely Susan's story is the most Important and Most Intriguing Unfinished Tales Of Narnia. How I wish C.S. Lewis was still alive today to answer our questions. but I believe that Someday we will get to meet him personally in Aslan's Country. and we will know what really happened to Susan. :)
 
Yes, good point, I forgot about Lewis mentioned that in a letter somewhere, so I went ahead and looked it up. He wrote:

The books don't tell us what happened to Susan. She is left alive in this world at the end, having by then turned into a rather silly, conceited young woman. But there is plenty of time for her to mend, and perhaps she will get to Aslan's country in the end.
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He also mentions that she was the sort of person who could persuade herself if she wanted to that it was "all nonsense." ( :( ) But given the way she was always quick (although sometimes reluctant) to come to believe again in Aslan in the books (contrast this with the dwarves at the end of the last battle who so tricked themselves that they couldn't even perceive Aslan or any good thing), she would return to belief.
 
One would hope that she got over the silly time in her life; she was a very young adult at the time of LB and probably not as mature as she thought herself to be. Maybe after she has children (hopefully not with a guy like Rabadash or a materialist), she will sober up and return to ardent belief in God. She needn't decide that she thinks that her adventures in Narnia were real again, if she returns to the straight and narrow, Aslan will recieve her service either way.
 
Did anyone see the movie "Hook" about Peter Pan after he grew up and married Wendy -- well, actually, Wendy's grand-daughter, I think. Anyway, he was a businessman in our world, but Capt Hook came and kidnapped his children and took them to Never Land! He had to go back and re-learn how to live (and fight) in Never Land to get his kids back. I always think maybe something like that happened to Susan's children; they somehow blundered into Narnia (or the Wood between the Worlds and some other world if there is no Narnia anymore) and then Susan had to recover her own lost memories in order to go after them and save them. And of course, encounter Aslan as he is in that world, and remember him...

That would be cool.
 
I watched it and like it in general, but the principal of it is completely non-book accurate. First, they could have given Moira the name she has in the book (Margaret), Hook and Tink are both dead by the time Wendy is half-grown. And Peter knew how to love a girl as though she were a mother, not as girl-friend.

It would be interesting to see that happen to Susan.
 
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LOL, I never analyzed the Hook movie that much!

But yah, it was just sort of the effect I was thinking of for Susan, how she could go through the Wood to a whole new world looking for her children and find Aslan in whatever form he takes there, and finally "get it" that he was Jesus, all along, and have an adventure plus get her faith and her kids back.
 
~Lava~ said:
Since Susan was next of kin, she probably had all of Pete and Ed's clothing some of which contained the rings.
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Oh, good point! Yes, and maybe she puts them aside, and years later her own children find them and pop off to the wood between the world, and then Susan realizes what has happened and goes after them ... It could work. I quite like that.
 
I don't think she will enter Narnia. I think she will go to the London Heaven and then on. She has always been more interested in our world than in Narnia. I am sure that she will/does grieve greatly at the loss of her brothers, sister, and parents. And hopefully this will be the change she needs for her heart and belief.
 
Hey guys, but do you remember what happened on Prince Caspian? When Lu saw Aslan, Susan did too, as both girls were walking together in the night, when the Pevensie and the dear dwarf Trumpkin were travelling away from telmarines, and in search of faithful hidden Narnians, to fight invasors, remember? Well, Susan knew it was Aslan who they´ve seen, and she denied it showing herself doubtful and leaving the poor Lu with no witness of what she knew she´s seen. Well, sure you remember when Aslan showed Himself to the group and talked to Susan... remember how she was about to cry in front of the great Lion, for what she knew she´s done to free her frustration and fear of travelling alone in the night? Well, I think that when she faced Aslan, in LB, she was one of the creatures that looked at Him with fear and sorrow, but loved Him in the deepest of her heart, dont you people think?
And, again, the author gives us his idea of the end of the world and the final judgement...

Bye!
 
inkspot said:
Susan never got a chance to look at Aslan in TLB -- she wasn't there.
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Of course not, Im just saying what I think it could have happened to her. And as she´s been once queen of Narnia, I reckon that facing again the very Lion who created it and gave Susan her crown, would made her realized of how silly she was to pretend Narnia to be an invention of she and her borthers on childhood =P
 
The difficulty with figuring out what happens to Susan is that while NARNIA ends, "our world" does not, so there is no Final Judgement for all, just those in the world in which Narnia existed. I always figured that was why Lewis put the Pevensie PARENTS on the train also--so that Lucy could see that the worlds connect from the Mountain. However, since Susan is the only one not in the train wreck, her "fate" is less certain. I agree with whoever said that when she dies she will go to the "England Heaven", and through that place be connected to the others through the Mountain, but I also think that she will need to believe in order to do that. Since Lucy's parents "made it" I always believed that--though they had never met Aslan--they knew his "other Name" like He told Edmund and Lucy to learn. Susan appears to believe in nothing but pleasure, so she would need to begin to believe in Him again in order to be reunited with her family.

As for using the magic rings :) --Excellent thought...but even the Seven Friends weren't entirely sure they would work, and what if Susan ended up in a Charnish place? :eek: No, I'm sure she finds Aslan again through his other name in her own world.
 
It seems to me that Susan's doing the same thing she always did: playing at being a grown up. She's always been the most reluctant when it comes to doing things in Narnia, but she ends up doing the right thing eventually.
 
Have you ever read the Problem of Susan by Neil Gaiman? (you can google it and read it online). I think it is quite an interesting look at what happens to her, and possibly quite realistic??
It might be considered a bit explicit so be warned.
 
Much as i hate to think of Susan not going to heaven when she dies, i don't think she will. Susan believed in and loved Narnia for a while, but then later she was willing to throw it away, just like in real life, some people go to church, act like christians, but then when something else comes up they abandon all that, and they end up paying in the long run cause they were never really saved.
 
I personally haven't much wondered what would happen to Susan. Like some of you had said before, perhaps the train wreck would help to change her perspective on some of her beliefs and so on.

One thing I've noticed throughout the books (and I think the movie makers did a good job on this as well) is that Susan was always the hesitant and sometimes a little snobbish person out of the Pevensie group. If she was taking a bad outlook on her adventures in Narnia, perhaps at the time she wished to forget about it because she thought there wasn't much good in what happened to her (although a lot of other characters seem to enjoy their adventures more than not like them). So, as she grew up in the real world after PC, she started to actually believe that the things in Narnia never really happened, and thought that her siblings still believing it was silly, and thus was no longer a friend of Narnia.

Anyways, that's just my theory on Susan '^^
 
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