During the 2018 The Lion's Call Summer Challenge, we will collaborate in a character study of Eustace between August 13-18, looking at selections from
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (August 13-14),
• The Silver Chair (August 15-16), and
• The Last Battle (August 17-18).
Specifically we welcome posts on your observations, impressions/interpretations of, or lessons regarding Eustace:
1. His growth arc - development (or not!) from passage to passage
2. How Eustace responds to a given crisis or issue - how he responds and what that shows about his values and character
3. What lessons (to follow or avoid) or principles can be learned from Eustace's example in a specific passage?
4. Feel free to add your favorite quotes about and by Eustace to the Quotable Eustace thread.
Your responses can be written comments in prose or poetry,
or your original artwork (like depictions of favorite scenes, or "before/after" artistic interpretations of his worldview, values, etc),
or any other modes of response that you think of 😉
So get these three chronicles off your shelf or from the local library and let's delve into Eustace's adventures, character and values this month. Sounds like fun, yes?
The Voyage of the Dawntreader
August 13
Chapters 1-2 We are introduced to Eustace in these first chapters. Suggested additional reflection questions:
What details in these chapters reveal his character?
What does he like/dislike?
What are his gifts and his weaknesses?
What can you learn from this version of Eustace?
August 14
Chapters 5-7 These chapters focus on Eustace’s attitudes and behavior on board, and trace the beginning of his transformation. Suggested additional reflection questions:
What details in these chapters reveal his character?
What does he like/dislike?
What are his gifts and his weaknesses?
What can you learn from this version of Eustace?
The Silver Chair
August 15
Chapter 1 - Observe: “You think there has been a change, then?”
Chapter 5 - Observe: “I don’t think Aslan would have sent us if there was so little chance as all that.”
August 16
Chapter 8 - Observe: “The second and third signs muffed,” and “We must just own up.”
Chapter 15 - “I wonder am I small enough to get through where Jill did?”
The Last Battle
August 17
1. Eustace & Jill's arrival. Chapter 5
2. Eustace begs to stay. Chapter 9 paragraph 3 “Tirian nodded” to “So I was jolly glad to find ourselves here instead.”
August 18
3. Eustace's first full-scale battle. Chapter 11 paragraph 8 “It was so lovely it made you want to cry” to Chapter 12 paragraph 2 “It was Eustace.”
4. Reunion (and some dwarfs who refused to be taken in). Chapter 13 paragraph 8 “When they had eaten enough” to ”Well done last of the kings of Narnia who stood firm at the darkest hour.”
