The Silver Chair | Themes and Characters

Jill Pole is the main character of The Silver Chair. She is one of Lewis's most puzzling yet most realistic characters, a person made up of the contradictions of good and bad that are typical of the human condition. This makes her adventure in The Silver Chair a passionate account of a person's climb out of darkness into enlightenment, out of sadness into joy. At first, she seems to be a victim, someone in need of aid against a gang of bullies and a school administration that encourages the beating up of children. Yet, when she is in Asian's Country, her thoughts are...

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