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Description
Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.
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Summary
Jill pole attended a co-ed school. One that let the kids do whatever they pleased with no consequences. This school was called 'Experiment House'.
He tells Jill about another world that him and his 2 cousins were magically whisked away too during the holidays.
With Jill he tries to get...
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Cast of Characters
- Jill Pole: Gets bullied.
- Eustace Scrubb: Has been to another world.
- Them/They: The school bullies.
- Lady of the Green Kirtle: Add a description of this character.
- Prince Rilian
- Aslan: A lion. Saves Eustace. Gives Jill a task.
- Caspian the Tenth: King of Cair Paravel. Set sail to the Seven Isles. A..k.a. Caspian the Seafarer.
- Trumpkin the Dwarf: Lord Regent.
- Master Glimfeather: Owl.
- Rilian: The lost Prince. Knight. Under a witch's enchantment.
- Lord Drinian: King's friend. Captain.
- Puddleglum: A Marsh-wiggle.
- She of the Green Kirtle: Tells the children to go to Harfang. Queen of Underland. Witch.
- Gentle Giants: Live at Harfang. Eat humans.
- Earthmen: Live in the Deep Realm.
- Golg: Gnome. Earthman captured.
Memorable Quotes
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“"Lord King, slay me speedily as a great traitor: for by my silence I have destroyed your son." And he told him the story. Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock for the death blow. But when the axe was raised, Caspian suddenly threw it away and cried out, "I have lost my Queen and my son:shall I lose my friend also?" And he fell upon the Lord Drinian's neck and embraced him and both wept, and their friendship was not broken.”
Lord Drinian, Owl, Caspian -
“"And what's that?" (A drunk Puddleglum) "Reshpeckobiggle"”
Gentle Giant King and Puddleglum -
“Gay, that's what we've got to be. Gay. As if we hadn't a care in the world. Frolicsome. You two youngsters haven't always got very high spirits, I've noticed. You must watch me, and do as I do. I'll be gay. Like this" - and he assumed a ghastly grin. "And frolicsome" - he he cut a most mournful caper. "You'll soon get into it, if you keep your eyes on me..."”
Puddleglum -
“All right. Gay's the word. Now, if we could only get someone to open this door. While we're fooling about and being gay, we've got to find out all we can about this castle."”
Scrubb -
“My royal mother is avenged. This is undoubtedly the same worm that I pursued in vain by the fountain in the forest of Narnia, so many years ago. All these year's I have been the slave of my mother's slayer. Yet I am glad, gentlemen, that the foul Witch took to her serpent form at last. It would not have suited well either with my heart or with my honor to have slain a woman.”
Prince Rilian
First Sentence
IT WAS A DULL AUTUMN DAY AND JILL Pole was crying behind the gym.
Table of Contents
One - Behind The Gym
Two - Jill Is Given A Task
Three - The Sailing Of The King
Four - A Parliament of Owls
Five - Pluddleglum
Six - The Wild Waste Lands Of The North
Seven - The Hill Of The Strange Trenches
Eight - The House of Harfang
Nine - How They Discovered Something Worth Knowing
Ten - Travels Without The Sun
Eleven - In The Dark Castle
Twelve - The Queen Of Underland
Thirteen - Underland Without The Queen
Fourteen - The Bottom Of The World
Fifteen - The Disappearance Of Jill
Sixteen - The Healing Of Harms
Glossary
- currying favor: to seek to advance oneself through flattery or fawning
- hols: holidays
- grubby: dirty
- alighted: to stay after descending
- dingy: shabby
- quay: a landing place
- turret: a small tower
- fusty: stale smell, mold
- peppery: irritable
- uncanny: uncomfortably strange
- bastioned: a fortified place.
- victual: food supplies or provisions.
- ford: a place where a river is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- shoals: a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
- cairn: a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.
- bivouacked: to rest or assemble in such an area; encamp.
- balustrade: a railing.
- banneret: banner.
- tarry: to wait.
- eddies: a current.
- funked: feared.
- funcked: feared.
- scullery: a small room or section of a pantry in which food is cleaned, trimmed, and cut into cooking portions before being sent to the kitchen.
- biped: having two feet.
- nosegay: a bouquet.
- forbore: kept back
Errata
p. 25 - Third; you shall find writing on a stone in that ruined city, and you must do what the writing tells you.
Series
This is book 6 in the The Chronicles of Narnia series.
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