Susan, 25 years later

MrBob

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What does everyone think Susan eventually did with her life? What was her occupation? Did she get married? How many kids?

I think she went on to get married, although she waited. She took a while to get her life back in order and began to refocus her priorities. She didn't just settle on the first guy she met, but had to find someone who could understand her after she finally understood herself.

She became a teacher of grade school students and had a few kids of her own. Probably about two or three, although she did not give them her siblings' or parents' names. That would have been too painful for her.

MrBob
 
I feel so bad for Susan.:(

I wish so much that she had believed in Narnia and gone there with her siblings [and parents!] at the end.

I'm not sure what she'd do when she was older, I haven't really thought about that.:rolleyes:
 
I imagine (and would have depicted, if I hadn't found out that _everyone_ imagines a "Saving Susan" story) that Susan married in haste, out of a combination of emotional loss and the romantic ideas she would have had anyway. The man she married turned out to be, not evil, but less than the unrealistic secular-glamour ideal she wanted, so she lost patience with him and divorced him. Later she married again--but this man WAS evil, and HE abandoned HER. Only after these failures (I imagine) did she return to God in her heart.
 
Lioness_Aslan said:
Well she got out of teenage years...and that changes EVERYTHING...:rolleyes: The loss might have made her 'see the light' or just get worse.
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I think that durring your teen-age years
its harder to follow the lord.
With peer-pressure and all the stress.
But a lot of kids dont
''see the light'' until a
near-death-experience.
Thats what I've noticed in kids at school.
 
I actually wrote a story, which is posted on narniafans.com under fan fiction on what happens. Though, it may not be as accurate, I think that Susan would have come back to the Lord and to believe.
 
My daughter didn't really come out of her rebellion against God until her Mom was dying of cancer. As Jesus told us, if a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it bears fruit. In the case of my Mary, the fruit was no less than the salvation of our daughter.
 
That's very true. A lot of people, myself included, don't devote their lives to God until they look self-destruction and death itself in the eye, or see it happen.
 
Eh... I'm not going to think up a nice little "save Susan" story. I'm still mad at her from after I read LB. I think she probably stayed the same way she was. Maybe even got worse. I don't know how the death of her siblings effected her, but I don't think anything good came of it. Maybe she lost her sanity and spent the rest of her life in a mental hospital. At any rate, I don't think she changed, or else there would be something about it. Jack just couldn't leave us hanging... thinking bad stuff about Susan if something good really happened.
 
"I wrote a book too about this, except it was ten years later and not twenty-five."

Interesting you wrote that NarnianPrincess. I actually originally titled this topic Susan, 10 years later but I changed it to give her a bit longer time to have a life where she was closer to 45.

MrBob
 
I would like to think that Susan came back to the relationship with God that she had when she still believed in Narnia in some way or another, I still think that Lewis was leaving the door for that conversion of heart by having Peter die with the rings in his pocket.
 
SlpNarniaQueen said:
That's very true. A lot of people, myself included, don't devote their lives to God until they look self-destruction and death itself in the eye, or see it happen.
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if we didn't have to go through hard and difficult times for us to change? It's sad how many times it's the grave and sorrowful experiences which turn our thoughts around. With some people there must be a tramatic wake up call. Some people are just too stubborn...like me. Regarding Susan, in the book they said she no longer believed in narnia and that she would rather spend her time putting on make-up and chasing boys. Well, once she lost her ENTIRE family. I mean...that's pretty...awful. I think after that incident she would look at herself and start to come 'round. Slowly, but surely.
 
I remember my first reaction from Susan's decision not to believe being anger. I never really forgave her after the Last Battle. I mean, I know she lost her entire family. But how she could simply forget the magic that she experienced and turn her back on it just shocked and amazed me.
 
I don't think ANYONE who had not literally suffered brain damage could forget an experience like Narnia. If anything in the Chronicles is "allegory," I'd say this is it: Susan forgetting Narnia is like a real-world phenomenon which sadly DOES happen, i.e. people forgetting what it's like to walk with Jesus.
 
people where I live call it Backsliding, Susan is Allegorical to the seed that fell among the thorns, or on rocky ground in the parable of the Sower. both kind of work for her.
 
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MrBob said:
"I wrote a book too about this, except it was ten years later and not twenty-five."

Interesting you wrote that NarnianPrincess. I actually originally titled this topic Susan, 10 years later but I changed it to give her a bit longer time to have a life where she was closer to 45.

MrBob
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Really? That's neat MrBob!
I put it at ten years because I wanted Susan's daughter to be about the same age that Lucy was when they first fell into Narnia.
 
According to experts, Susan died at the age of 21 (1949). Though I'm not sure, because that is the same year the heros of Narnia met the train accident.

Anyway, I'd probably think, in my opinion, if she ever thought about Narnia again, she'd look for it, I daresay. If she didn't, then she might've married before her death. If she ever did, then, man that would've been a very short marriage.

When she died, did she believe in Narnia in the end, we do not know. But I hope she did.
 
Hmm - which "experts" are these? I've never seen anything that even discussed the date of Susan's death, not even that highly suspect timeline which Walter Hooper produced after Lewis' death.

Lewis never said anything about Susan's death. I wonder who else claimed he did?
 
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