Going through anew

TimmyofOz

TimmyofOz

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Listening to SL anew, and enjoying it again. Jill and Scrub's constant bickering and Puddleglum's gloominess are a riot. This and HHB are the funniest of the CON. :D
 
No I agree -- when Lewis goes to town with the bickering and snide comments, it cracks me up, too. That's one reason HHB is so good, the constant jibes between Shasta and Aravis. But Puddleglum is the funniest in SC, "reshpecktobiggle!" he says he is when he's a little tipsy.
 
YES!!the bickering is one of my fave aspecs of CoN...oh and... "reshpecktobiggle" is one of my fave phrases out of all 7 chronicles...well,aside from trumkin's phrases...hehe.i also like when edmund thought he got knickabrick but got trumpkin in Prince Caspian... :D
 
Elindil said:
All the bickering makes it sound like me and my sister.
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That is what makes SC so good. Jill and Scrub act like children in this book. Much more than the Pevensie children did. Jill and Eustace would have made a nice couple if they had lived to ever marry. :p
 
inkspot said:
No I agree -- when Lewis goes to town with the bickering and snide comments, it cracks me up, too. That's one reason HHB is so good, the constant jibes between Shasta and Aravis. But Puddleglum is the funniest in SC, "reshpecktobiggle!" he says he is when he's a little tipsy.
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The horses were even worse. :D
 
SC is interesting in that it is written entirely from the perspective of Jill. LWW is written from the perspectives of Lucy and Edmund. PC is written from the perspectives of Lucy, Edmund, Peter and others (Caspian if you count the story the dwarf tells). VDT is from Lucy and Eustace. HHB is from Shasta and Aravis. LB starts with Shift and Puzzle then from Tirian, and at the end it gets vague. Only MN is also from the perspective of just one character, being Digory. This one person perspective really adds to the story's uniqueness. :rolleyes:
 
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I ofcourse don't mean 1st person perspective, where Jill is the story teller and "I" is being used. SC is in 3rd person when talking about Jill, but all events are done in her present and you only really get into her mind directly without the character having to have to verbalize what their mind, which is again in Jill's presents. The other books shift this perspective at different times of the book, whenever the story requires, and thus the story's personalize character is lost. But this is just a observation. This doesn't make SC a better story, just more toned in many ways.
 
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