Age of Pevensies?

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Well, she will never get back into Narnia, but she can get into Aslan's Country. When I read that there was a chance for her to go to Aslan's Country I was really happy because it would mean that she had changed and that she finally learned what was important. I figure that if C.S. Lewis had written another book Susan would have made it to Aslan's Country. She was beginning to doubt when she went to Narnia in PC, because she was the last to believe and see Aslan besides Trumpkin. I just wish that she had had a change of heart before TLB.
 
So a few questions:

Why does Eustace tell Tirian that they had been there more than a year ago rather than specifying that it had been about 5 years?

Why are they always being described as children? In the tower the night that they rescued Tirian, it is described that Jill and Eustace had been put to bed earlier due to their age. If they were 16, Tirian would not have done so seeing as how they would have been old enough in Narnian years and the King, being no more than 25.

As for the school comment, they went to a different school. It might have let out for holidays (summer) at a later time than Lucy's school.

Why did illistrator Pauline Baynes make Jill and Eustace so young in the book?

MrBob
 
By the way, Susan is not alone. She will be able to grieve with her Aunt Alberta and Uncle Harold. Maybe she would ask her aunt if she could have the painting in their house.

I do, however, wonder what happened to the rings.

MrBob
 
MrBob said:
So a few questions:

Why does Eustace tell Tirian that they had been there more than a year ago rather than specifying that it had been about 5 years?

Why are they always being described as children? In the tower the night that they rescued Tirian, it is described that Jill and Eustace had been put to bed earlier due to their age. If they were 16, Tirian would not have done so seeing as how they would have been old enough in Narnian years and the King, being no more than 25.

As for the school comment, they went to a different school. It might have let out for holidays (summer) at a later time than Lucy's school.

Why did illistrator Pauline Baynes make Jill and Eustace so young in the book?

MrBob
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I agree that sometimes the evidence from the books about ages does seem to conflict. But the clear sense of the school comment is that Eustace and Jill were the only ones who were still young enough to go to school.

The quote is
"And the day after that was the day Pole and I had to go back to school- we're the only two who are still at school and we're at the same one"

That clearly indicates the others did not go to school at all so Lucy must have been 16 at the very least.
 
Good point MrBob, but I doubt that they were of much comfort to her. As to Eustace not saying it had been five years, maybe he didn't feel like it. I just know that the air raids in London were in the year 1940, and that they train crash was supposed to be set in 1949. The time lapse makes sense when they talk about the only one still being in school and such.:D
 
Ahh, the power of books. They can take two separate readers to the same land and they see the events in two separate ways.

It works better for me for the kids to be the ages I imagine them as. Everyone also disagrees with me on how old they are in H&HB.

Curious, was there a real train crash in 1949 that this crash was based on?

MrBob
 
MrBob said:
Ahh, the power of books. They can take two separate readers to the same land and they see the events in two separate ways.

It works better for me for the kids to be the ages I imagine them as. Everyone also disagrees with me on how old they are in H&HB.

Curious, was there a real train crash in 1949 that this crash was based on?

MrBob
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If it works better for you to imagine them as a certain age, by all means imagine them to be that age. Most people seem to disagree with me about how old Lucy and Edmund are in LWW, but if they insist on seeing Lucy as 8 when I'm sure she's 10 that's fine.

As far as I know there was no serious train crash in 1949, but there was a very serious one in the early 50's that may have been the basis for the one in TLB
 
"I just know that the air raids in London were in the year 1940, and that they train crash was supposed to be set in 1949."

I'm curious, Lady Theresa, where is that information from? I know I saw a book that was about Narnia, but it was at a bookstore that is now closed and I don't remember the title. Did Lewis himself make this claim?

MrBob
 
Lady Theresa said:
You were close in the ages you posted earlier, but Peter was only 13 in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Then Susan was 12, Edmund 10, and Lucy 8. Their reign did last about 15 years. When the Pevensies went back in Prince Caspian, Peter was 14, Susan 13, Edmund 11, and Lucy 9. Jill and Eustace were both a year younger than Lucy so when they all died (which I find even sadder because Susan loses everyone that she has ever loved in one day) Peter was 21, Edmund was 18, Lucy 17, and Jill and Eustace were only 16. They were all so young when they died. It is sad, but at least they all made it to Aslan's country except Susan of course.:) :( :rolleyes:
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LT, you are the closest in my view on how old the children are in the books. They were quite young, but we tend to see them as older, because the Narnian air is said to make you older if you are young and youger if you are old.;)
 
I have seen it in more than one book but the one I quoted was a Christian Family's guide to Narnia, Roar. I have seen it in more than one book, at least I have seen the timeline I quoted in more than one book. I don't know whether that's the age C.S.Lewis intended then to be or not!!:D
 
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