Lucy And Eustace example essay topic

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader By: C.S. Lewis There are three main characters in the story, Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace. Lucy and Edmund are brother and sister and Eustace is their cousin. Edmund is a young teenager, very smart and very kind. Lucy is in her mid teens as well, she is a very happy person. Lucy is always trying to help people with there problems. The setting is first the early 1900's in England and then in Narnia the fictional world the story is based on.

The story begins with Edmund and Lucy sitting in there room talking about Narnia. Eustace is listening outside their door and comes in to make fun of them. There is a picture of a ship on the wall and as Eustace calls Narnia fake water begins coming into the room out of the picture. The next thing they know they are in the ocean and the ship is at there side.

The ship is a group of Narnia ns sailing east looking for the seven lost lords of Narnia. Ca spain the king of Narnia is leading the search group along with Ripe cheep the leader of the talking mice. (In Narnia animals talk and walk around like humans) Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace since came into the world in the ocean they have to go along on the rescue mission. They come to an island and they had to find food and supplies. Eustace decided to go rest for awhile and finds a place up a hill. When he wakes from his nap there is a thick fog and he thinks he knows the way that he came from.

He walks down into a valley and sees a pond and decides to take a drink. He sees a cave and decides to go in. Inside the cave there is gold, jewels, crowns, diamond, all kinds of treasure. He puts a bracelet on and while he was sitting in a pile of gold he fell back asleep. When he woke up his arm was very sores and noticed the band was now very tight. Eustace walked over to the pond to take a drink and sees the reflexion of a dragon in the water.

He had been turned to a dragon by taking the dragons gold. He is a dragon for a few days then Aslan (Aslan is the great emperor of Narnia) comes to visit him and changes him back. The next island they come too there is a pond that changes anything to gold. There they found 1 of the seven lords a golden brick on the bottom. They spot what they think to be an island and change course to go to it. It turns out it is a giant black hole.

They begin getting pulled by a current and seemed doomed but Lucy called upon Aslan to help them and the current stops and they rowed out. The final island they come to they find 3 of the lords asleep at a table full of food. They had fallen into and enchanted sleep that the cause was unknown. Every night birds fly down and clear the table and bring new food. They find a man who lived on the island alone, who was a fallen star. He was a star in the eastern sky and now everyday eats a berry the birds bring him and gets a day younger and one day will become a star once again.

He tells them that to wake there friends they must continue sailing east until they can go no further. It is rumored that Aslan world is there. They continue sailing and until the water becomes to shallow. Reepicheep, Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace take the small boat and continue on east and the others return to get the waken lords and head home.

They reach what looks like a wall and Reepicheep goes through it on his own and the others.