Hmmm Liked This Book

its a very good book, i just think its weird how its called the silver chair,it only comes out in one page or so. may be its because its the enchantment, spell, and magic of the book,and what it represents for the story.
 
The title' The Silver chair' is quite symbolic i think...only when Rilian is i the chair does he have his real memories...Jill struggles to rememeber what she needs to, and you could asay that Eustace rememebers so much about his last visit to the Narnian world that it improves him even further..or something..memory..duty etc??
 
the silver chair

so far, i've read: the magician's nephew, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, the horse and his boy, prince caspian, the silver chair, and i'm in the process of reading the last battle. the best book EVER is the silver chair! i mean name another book that includes man-eating giants, foot-injuring marsh-wiggles, to incredibly awesome kidds, snow, wind, and chairs made entirely out of silver. i challenge you to name another book that includes all of those things. go on... I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!
i think this is also one of the most symbolic in the series... christianity wise. i mean rilian (us) is bound to this chair (sin) and he needs too amazingly coold kids to cut the rope (God) and then and only then will we be our real selves. aww... where did i come up with that?
 
The Silver Chair grows on you, I think, the older you get. Because you begin to realize more and more that even everyday things which you take for granted because everyone does it or everyone uses it, can be treacherous. It was just a chair Rilian was tied to, and yet it ruled his life because it kept him from escaping the witch when he could. No one would have thought twice about sitting in a chair; that's what it's there for. But really it was quite evil. It can be the same with our own habits and hang-ups -- we don't think twice about them, yet they can lead us down a path which is quite evil ...

Plus SC has the character of Puddleglum, a classic! you have to love him.

And SC has that beautiful scene where the witch has almost convinced them all there is no such thing as sunlight, above ground, or Aslan. She almost makes them think they imagined or made up Aslan! But at the least minute, PG breaks the spell and says even if Aslan is make-believe, he would rather go on pretending because Aslan is so much better than the dreary underworld!

It's a great moment if you look at the spiritual meanings of the books, because it's our answer to atheists and people who don't have faith in God: even if it's make-believe, it's better than what you've got. Although, we know our faith is real -- just as Aslan was real.
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Good question!!! Acording to the Narnias, they do. However, there is nothing to say how. The White Whitch is the say as Jadas in TMN. Where dose the Green Lady came in? IS she her dugther maybe? We will never know. Anyone got ant thories?
 
Jadis and the Lady of the Green Kirtle are not the same.
They are 'part of the same crew' according to Puddlelgum, but no definite link has ever been proven. It's quite possible that the WW could have increased her number..somehow..during the 100 years winter..and we know that the WW had a sister when she first appeared on the world. (MN)
 
rosymole said:
Jadis and the Lady of the Green Kirtle are not the same.
They are 'part of the same crew' according to Puddlelgum, but no definite link has ever been proven. It's quite possible that the WW could have increased her number..somehow..during the 100 years winter..and we know that the WW had a sister when she first appeared on the world. (MN)
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I just spent the entire several hours finishing the Silver Chair. Very interesting reading. Loved the Green Witch, naturally...I definitely don't think there's any 'link' between Jadis and the Green Witch other than they were simply 'witches'...with different takeover styles. To me Jadis was the 'winter witch' and the Green Witch was sort of like...I don't know...related more to the earth and nature, as she was able to change into a snake/serpent and was under the ground plotting to take over Narnia.

Jadis' sister I believe perished in Charn when Jadis herself uttered the Forbidden World and basically wiped out everything on that world.
 
I agree with Inkspot, I think Silver Chair definitely grows on you as you get older. When I was younger and my dad read us the books, I remember not liking it very much (that part where they almost get eaten is scary! and so are a lot of other parts of the book). But when I read it as an adult I really appreciated it, for the things Inkspot mentioned and many other reasons. So if you don't like it the first time, try it again in a couple years!
 
I'm just reading this "Silver chair" [at Finnish: Hopeinen tuoli. :D ] and I think it is not as good as example Prince Caspian. This is somehow very booring. But, it is my view. :)
 
milo_goldwater>knight said:
its a very good book, i just think its weird how its called the silver chair,it only comes out in one page or so. may be its because its the enchantment, spell, and magic of the book,and what it represents for the story.
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Funny as I thought the same thing too. I was expecting that the Silver Chair itself was going to be something that was actually NOT evil...something majestic and good. Instead it was there to keep Tirian in a horrible spell. It seems like the story revolved around Eustace and Jill anyways...even the Green Witch was very secondary as a character. This book was more adult in nature and though I enjoyed it very much, sort of strange, with those gnome-like creatures who originally were from the center of the world.
 
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milo_goldwater>knight said:
its a very good book, i just think its weird how its called the silver chair,it only comes out in one page or so. may be its because its the enchantment, spell, and magic of the book,and what it represents for the story.
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If you listen to Douglas Gresham's preface to the BBC Radio Theater adaptation of SC, he explains that the book had several different names before it was settled on 'The Sliver Chair'.
 
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