Does Susan go to the "New Narnia"?/Whatever happened to Susan?

I always thought that Susan still died, only she had "grown-up", or strayed away from "childish" fantasy, and that was the reason why she did not reach Aslan's country. Sort of an allegory of faith.
 
Whoa whoa whoa! They DIE??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Ah CR*********P!!!
 
they all die! OMG i didn't finish that one yet, thats so sad
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i am gonna die too!
i wonder what will happen to susan, i can't believe lucy dies too, she is so young, thats so sad!
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don't worry hun. its not nearly as sad as it sounds. read the book and I think you'll find you like it a lot better then you'd think.
 
It's Okay

Please, don't get yourself worked up. The Kids, along with their parents die, they are killed in a train wreck. But when they die they go to heaven in a sense, it's all part of C.S Lewis' extreme allegory. They reached Aslans country, which if you read 'Voyage of the Dawn Treader' you would understand what a great feat this was. It was not nearly as sad as you imagine it to be, it was wonderful. All your lives you serve this all powerful master, in Narnia it was Aslan in our world it's Jesus. Not to say they are one in the same but more like Aslan was a represenation of Jesus, it's quite remarkable and it thrills me to think about it. Don't worry it's all good, and I like to think Susan comes back to the truth and eventually accepts that she was wrong and when she died she finds herself in Aslan's country as well. So don't worry about it, death is not ugly for those who are dying if they know the truth.
 
is it just my opinion or is it really annoying that susan does that. that she stops believing. i dont mean in a religious way because that would make me very hypocritical, but its like going on holiday to france and then years later saying dont be silly france doesnt exist! i know thats an exageration but it doesnt make sensefor her to stop believing in narnia. she was always my favourite character and the last battle kinda ruined that for me. but i like that c s lewis said that she does believe again. that she does go to "aslan's country" it restored my faith in her.
 
Starkindler said:
Lewis said he had hope for Susan - he may have seen her as a little like himself at that age.
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i think you are absolutely correct. lewis was not always a christian. as a young adult he lost his faith and was an atheist for several years. even trying to persuade others to be an atheist to. but a few years later he was converted back to christianity although i unfortunately cannot recall how.
i think he made susan stop believing to represent his own loss in faith. i also thinks that this indicates Susan will indeed believe once again. i also like to think that when she dies she will also join the rest of them. in the spirit of her youth in "aslan's country" thats just my opinion so tell me what you think
 
Hmmmm.......

Thought: "Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen in Narnia" (Someone correct that quote if it is wrong I don't have the books in front of me.)

Thought: This is not the first time Susan has been drawn off by worldly distractions. Remember in The Horse and His Boy she almost marries Rabbadsh..... crud I hate spelling. She falls for the Calormen prince only to return to her senses when she sees the truth of what he was.

Thought: In PC Aslan tells all of the Pevensie children they must know Him by a different name in our world.

Theory: People have an odd way of returning to thier mistakes. It appears to me that Susan has yet again fallen for that which is false. If Susan repeats her previous decisions, the death of her family could cause her to realize what is truly important, which might drive her to find Aslan by His name in this world eventually reuniting her with family

P.S. Since time works differently in Narnia, if Eustace and Jill died only minutes earlier they would have a jump start on the rest. Or Aslan could have "dropped them off" and took the rest with Him to chill until the end of the world. I mean like time really has any constraints on Aslan.
 
Susan's fate is never expanded on past the children's explanations of her being "no longer a friend of Narnia" and a "jolly sight too keen on being grown up", when they reached Narnia after their deaths. She was symbolic of the unbeliever - she'd turned her back on Aslan and Narnia and chosen to live her own life. And in a way, even though it is through death, she misses out on going to Aslan's country with her brothers and sister and parents.

However, there is some small glimmer of hope for her. C.S. Lewis himself said in a letter to a boy in 1957 that it wasn't necessarily the end of Susan. "...But there is plenty of time for her to mend, and perhaps she will get to Aslan's country in the end - in her own way". I believe she would have eventually, especially after the deaths of her whole family. She would have turned back to Aslan and Narnia in the end, hopefully, and gone to Heaven.
 
o.k. my post is ganna be pretty long cause i have a lot to say!
uhm. has their already been a thread on this, i'm not sure but i do remember reading and posting to a thread very simular to this, maby i was just thinking it cause it was quite a while back! and 2nd of all i'm very sorry (even though i didn't start this thread) to all the people who didn't finish the book before the spoilers. sorry, a_childs_imagination where did it ever say that lucy ended up in aslans country, cause i've read the books quite a few times and i don't ever remember coming across that? and to tell u the truth i really agree with eustace scrubb (my fav. character), i think that after she had realised that her whole family had past that she really came back to aslan (jesus) and started to beleive in narnia (heaven) and was forgiven by aslan. so i do beleive that she ended up in aslans country!

sorry to anyone if i've ofended u in anyway!
 
yeah well i kinda agree with you
as u can see from the book susan doesnt believe in narnia anymore
she likes to hang out with her friends and do girl stuffs
she believes that narnia is just a make-believe world that she used to play with her brothers and sister.
according to a letter that lewis wrote to a girl, asking if susan will go back to narnia, lewis respond that susan is a self-centered girl, but that doesnt mean that she will not be able to get back to narnia, there are lots of time for her to change, and perhaps someday she will get back to narnia.

source: "beyond the wardrobe, the official guide to narnia"

:D
 
It’s fairly unlikely that Susan would have been going to college, either before the death of her family or after. It’s stated in the books that she was not very good at school work, and higher education was by no means as common in those days as it is now; you usually only went to university if you were in the top bracket intellectually, as opposed to today when it is almost the default option on leaving school.

That said, just holding a School Certificate (the exam qualification they had in those days) would have meant she was educated to a good all-round standard that would put her in much the same position as a fair few first-year undergraduates today, and by what I’ve seen on these boards, even Lucy could have taught the average poster hereabouts plenty about grammar, spelling and so on. :)

The usual thing for a young woman of Susan’s age to have considered would be getting married. Most people did. In her case it would have meant finding a nice young man with an honest family background and a respectable character, with promising career prospects – almost certainly something in an office or bank judging from what I can tell of the Pevensies’ social class – and settling down in her early twenties. In that case she could perfectly well have lived into the 21st century and be a great-grandmother by now.

Of course Susan might have found alternatives. As a beautiful girl who had, apparently, been worming her way into the world of party invitations as soon as she was old enough to pass for twenty-one, she might have found herself a sugar daddy – a rich but much older man to set her up in a nice little flat somewhere with all her needs provided for, in exchange for which he got a young beauty to show off in public and… well, the forum policy requires that if you can’t fill in the blank for yourself, I don’t tell you.

As for her spiritual welfare, it was entirely in her own hands. Aslan may have intended the loss of her whole family to come as the massive kick in the behind that drew her attention to the things that did and didn’t matter in life. I can picture her, all dressed up for a party, receiving the telegram with the bad news, and suddenly everything that she thought was important melting into insignificance as she realized she would give it all up to have her family back for a week, a day, even half an hour.

Or it might have been too much for her to swallow, and she might have decided that if He could let something so terrible happen to her, He could not have loved her as much as He ought to… and she would jolly well pay Him out by not believing in Him.

It was her choice. It’s our choice. It would be well if we chose wisely.
 
man i just finished the book ast night and it was sad.hmmmm is eustace and jill dead too?probably since they r in the real narnia.do u think susan would go and live with eustace's family?
 
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