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The Salvation of Eustace: The Reason Why the Children Go to Narnia

“You see, I think the purpose of many, if not all, of the Narnia books is not to tell stories about the salvation of Narnia but to tell stories about the salvation of the Pevensie children and their friends and relations. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader even plays this out when Edmund and Lucy learn they cannot come back to Narnia again. Lucy admits that isn’t so much Narnia (which after all has changed with each of their visits) but Aslan himself they’ll miss. Aslan tells her that he in their world too and now they must learn his name there. Nearly every book (with the possible exception of The Horse and His Boy, which is certainly about Shasta’s salvation, and Aravis’––and Bree and Hin’s––but has little to do with returning to our world) seems to tell a particular story, that fairy-tales are often, if not always, a proper introduction to the Gospel.”