MrBob
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I was just thinking earlier today about how much Lucy had to stand up for her beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
In the beginning of LWW, she does the seemingly impossible by entering another strange world merely by walking into a wardrobe and meeting a strange creature with whom she visited for a few hours, having tea, conversing, and nearly being kidnapped by him. Coming out, she tried to tell her siblings what happened, but having been gone for only a moment and going back to see that the wardrobe was just a plain one, no one could believe her. She never let go of that experience she knew to be true in the face of her siblings insistence (and sometimes cruel jokes) that it was just her imagination. In the book, she even considered that things would be easier if she admitted (if falsely) that she was joking, but she could not do that as it would be lying, something she did not do.
Her story was challenged even moreso when Edmund, after having found Narnia, told Peter and Susan that he was just pretending with Lucy. She stuck with her story (the truth) that she had visited this strange land despite all evidence to the contrary, including the denial of the one person who could validate her story.
Not once, however, did her faith in her story waver. She knew she was right. I think it was this defense of what she knew to be right that helped to make her the most ardent disciple of Aslan. Defending your own truths against everyone else who either doesn't want to believe you or simply doesn't believe you can either make you question yourself or make you more ardent in your beliefs of the truth. And this is why she was known as the Valiant. She was already showing it before she knew she could become queen.
MrBob
In the beginning of LWW, she does the seemingly impossible by entering another strange world merely by walking into a wardrobe and meeting a strange creature with whom she visited for a few hours, having tea, conversing, and nearly being kidnapped by him. Coming out, she tried to tell her siblings what happened, but having been gone for only a moment and going back to see that the wardrobe was just a plain one, no one could believe her. She never let go of that experience she knew to be true in the face of her siblings insistence (and sometimes cruel jokes) that it was just her imagination. In the book, she even considered that things would be easier if she admitted (if falsely) that she was joking, but she could not do that as it would be lying, something she did not do.
Her story was challenged even moreso when Edmund, after having found Narnia, told Peter and Susan that he was just pretending with Lucy. She stuck with her story (the truth) that she had visited this strange land despite all evidence to the contrary, including the denial of the one person who could validate her story.
Not once, however, did her faith in her story waver. She knew she was right. I think it was this defense of what she knew to be right that helped to make her the most ardent disciple of Aslan. Defending your own truths against everyone else who either doesn't want to believe you or simply doesn't believe you can either make you question yourself or make you more ardent in your beliefs of the truth. And this is why she was known as the Valiant. She was already showing it before she knew she could become queen.
MrBob
