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 | | The best human character in Lion is a girl, Lucy Pevensie, and the worst is her brother Edmund. |
 | | Pullman makes much of the fact that in The Last Battle, the final volume of The Chronicles, Peter Pevensie judges his sister Susan to be "no longer a friend of Narnia," and Jill Pole says it's because "she's interested in nothing nowadays except nylons and lipstick and invitations. |
 | | She was always a jolly sight too keen on being grown-up." To Pullman, this means that Lewis didn't want Susan to "underg[o] a transition from one phase of her life to another. |
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