The Silver Chair is book six of the Narnia series. This story sees the return of Eustace Scrubb with his new friend Jill Pole as they journey through Narnia and discover the hidden realms that no-one knew existed. Their purpose? To find Prince Rilian, the missing son of King Caspian.
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Plot
Eustace has gone back to school after this adventures in Narnia and is a much better person for his time travelling with his cousins and King Caspian. Nearly a year later, he finds Jill Pole hiding from the bullies at Experiment House School and he tells her about his time in Narnia. Just as the bullies are about to find them, they wish that Aslan would rescue them. They stumble off and try to escape through a gate but find themselves in Aslan’s Country. It is here that they are set the task of finding Prince Rilian, son of King Caspian.
Thoughts on the Story
This is one of my least favourite stories within the Narnia saga. While the other stories were trying to tale the of epic adventures, this one falls a bit flat. The story is mainly about Jill and Eustace travelling with a pessimistic marsh-wiggle. The journey is hard, the landscape sounds dismal, and Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle is depressing to listen to most of the time. The are some elements of danger but it doesn’t come close to the feelings of courage from the previous stories.
Overall
On the grand scale of things, The Silver Chair is not a bad book. But when compared to the warmth and adventures of the other books, this one feels like C.S. Lewis was writing it to add some extra padding to the Narnia storyline. This is surprising as this was the fourth book which was written by Lewis but the timeline (or history) of Narnia places it as the sixth book.