How did you feel after reading Last Battle?

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I just finished reading Horse, Treader, Chair, and Last Battle. Oh my, Aslan! It all connects!

At first I was all :D when Jill and Eustace fought for Narnia

then I was all like.... :confused: where are Peter, Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and the rest?

At the end of the book was I was..... :eek: they all died?!?! What?!?! Jill, Eustace, Penvensies dead?! As in, cofffins, bodies....dead?! Train wreck... Susan must claim thier bodies... :(

As a born again Christian myself, I drank in all the symbolism, and was very happy I can meet Aslan/Jesus one day. I felt utter sympathy for Susan- her siblings, and cousin dead. Her friends, aka Digory, Polly, Jill. It was obvious she talked to them all, from Peter and other's comments when they were behind the door

I wonder, how Susan will deal with the deaths of her family, and I hope she will find Aslan again one day..

Goodbye, King Peter, Queen Lucy, King Edmund, Queen Jill, King Eustace. You served Narnia, and Aslan well. The battles have been won, sacrifices have been made, the pain and sadness is gone. Now, you may all finally rest
 
omg! just reading this makes me sad and cry :-( but wow i haven't read those books yet i only read the lion the witch and the wardrobe and now i'm reading the magician's nephew (not in order because i started reading it for a school assignment) but wow the ending is sad! but thank you for sharing :)

Karla
 
I, at first, wanted to be sad, but then I realized that all of them were with God, the different dimensions verged with one another. The joy that they all must have felt at finally being in their true 'home'. No more pain, no more suffering, no more, sickness, disease and death. Only joy and happiness for all eternity.
 
Rest? Not at all - they have only just begun to grow and mature into creatures that angels themselves will delight to prostrate themselves before. (A tough sentence to read, I admit, but the grammar's all in order.) All that was worth preserving in the old Narnia and the old Earth, and unnumbered worlds besides, is theirs to enjoy and explore for all eternity, in which, as the author says, each tale told is better than the one before.
 
Well, it would be "rest" in the sense of being rid of horrid burdens and pains--as when one takes an athletic vacation. My Mary, rid of her burden of cancer, now rejoices in whatever activities exist in Heaven.
 
I was pretty much horrified the first time I read it. I didn't like the Last Battle for a long time until I read it again. Now it seems deeper adn more meaningful. I like it.
 
It's a shocker, to be sure. I remember the first few times I read it, and I kept wondering why it wasn't like the other Narnia books - you know, things would get worse and challenges would arise, but with Aslan's help the children and Narnians would always triumph. But the ending makes it clear - they did triumph, completely and totally, and never had to leave Narnia again!
 
i don't quite remember.... because of the spoilers and all.... but it was a shocker, potw said it... and i absolutly loved the very last quote, of the very last book. it's one of my favorite quotes. con has the best quotes, they're sos trong...*off topicness*
 
I was mixed. Someone told me the ending so I was ready. It was a good ending, but I as so upset about Susan because I believe she never truly forgot. I feels he was just hurt that she and Peter were told they could never come back.
 
Since I read all 7 Chronicles of Narnia within a relatively small amount of time, I was happy to take a break from reading.
 
I felt sad and happy the first time I read it. the second time I felt better about it, but it was not until I realized that there was nothing to prevent Susan from coming back around to the truth that I could completely reconcile my feelings about the book. Lewis either on purpose or inadvertently facilitated Susan's change of heart by have Peter die with the rings on his person. By using them, Susan could have gotten to other worlds and met Aslan in one of them.
 
I think about Heaven a lot. I thought about Heaven a lot even _before_ I got so old as to be a whole lot closer to arriving. And the ending of "The Last Battle" sent my thoughts of Heaven triumphantly soaring. Besides the very last page, it was moving to see Tirian's reunion with his father.
 
The first time i read it i was actually very dissapointed. It was so unlike most of the other narnia books that by the time i got to the ending i had lost hope for it, and the ending was soured for me.
However, the second time i read it i realized it wasnt as bad as i had originally thought. So i guess i made my peace with it. Its certinally not my favorite book in the series, but its okay. The real ending was a satisfactory one.
 
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