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The bullies at Eustace and Jill’s school and their accomplices, as well as Lucy’s scoffing classmates, are punished at the end of The Silver Chair.
Repères
- Espèce
- Humans
- Nom original
- Experiment House pupils (the Gang) and other schoolmates
- Autre traduction
- the Experiment House
- Origine
- Earth (England)
- Nationalité
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- Première apparition
- The Silver Chair, ch. 1
- Âge
- Children aged 9 to 16
En bref
Group profile. Experiment House, the mixed school of Eustace and Jill, is run by a headmistress who believes in letting children do as they please. Result : a gang of older pupils terrorizes the others with impunity. The headmistress sees the bullies as “interesting psychological cases.”
Names mentioned
- Adela Pennyfather , Cholmondely Major, Edith Winterblott, Eleanor Blakiston, Carter, Bannister, Sorner, the Garrett twins, Edith Jackle : members of the gang or unpleasant pupils. Edith Jackle is the girl who spies on Jill at the beginning of the book.
- Spivvins : a pupil mentioned at the beginning of The Silver Chair. Eustace refuses to denounce him.
- Anne Featherstone and Marjorie Preston : in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, they are Lucy’s classmates. Thanks to a spell in the magician’s book, Lucy hears them badmouthing her.
Perspective and analysis
Lewis attacks the “progressive” pedagogy he considered irresponsible. The satire is biting ; it shows that injustice is not always a matter of evil people, but also of negligence.
Dans les livres
Son histoire dans les livres (révèle l’intrigue)
In the books
At the end of The Silver Chair, Aslan, resurrected Caspian, Jill and Eustace punish the gang. The headmistress, in a panic, is sacked, then becomes an inspector, then a Member of Parliament. The school is finally well run. In The Last Battle, we learn that Jill and Eustace are still at the school.
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Anne Featherstone
That was a classmate of Lucy’s who criticized her.
Marjorie Preston
That was a classmate of Lucy’s who criticized her.
Adela Pennyfather
She is an unsympathetic classmate of Jill and Eustace.
Appearance in the books
« The Silver Chair »
Carter
He is a rather unpleasant classmate of Jill and Puddleglum.
Cholmondely Major
She is an unsympathetic classmate of Jill and Eustace.
Appearance in the books
« The Silver Chair »
Edith Jackle
She is an unsympathetic classmate of Jill and Eustace.
Appearance in the books
« The Silver Chair »
Edith Winterblott
She is an unsympathetic classmate of Jill and Eustace.
Appearance in the books
*[The Silver Chair](https ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Chair)*
Eleanor Blakiston
She is an unsympathetic classmate of Jill and Eustace.
Appearance in the books
« The Silver Chair »
Grand Bannister
He is a rather unpleasant classmate of Jill and Puddleglum.
Jumeaux Garrett
They are not very pleasant classmates of Jill and Puddleglum.
Sorcerer
He is a rather unpleasant classmate of Jill and Puddleglum.
Spivvins
He is a classmate of Jill and Eustace.
Appearance in the books
*The Silver Chair*
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