The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

A detailed Summary of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader' was written by C.S. Lewis, it was pulished by HarperTrophy, in the U.S. in 1955 and reprinted in 1983. The book has 216 pages and is a novel of fiction and adventure.

The story begins with Lucy and Edmund staying at their aunt and uncle's house. Their cousin Eustance, who they did not get along with at all, was always ordering them around and never leaving them alone. One afternoon when Edmund and Lucy finally did catch a moment alone they began to talk of Narnia, their own secret world which they had visited twice before. In Lucy's room they looked at the picture on the wall above Lucy's bed, it was of a s a Narnian ship, the 'Dawn Treader' and they longed to be on it. Just then Eusance walked into the room and began to tease them about Narnia, and suddenly, they began to shrink. Lucy and Edmond knew what was happening but Eustance didn't . A few moments after, they were drowning in the water beside the 'Dawn Treader'.

On board the ship, they found the prince of Narnia- Caspian. He gave them warm clothes and introduced them to his crew. Then he explained to them why they ( Prince Caspian and his

In this story, The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader', there are 6 main charactors. I have introduced five charactors above- Aslan, Edmond, Lucy, Eustance and Prince Caspian. I have not included Reepicheep but will give a brief description of their charactors. Most of these charactors appear in more than one of the novels in the series, other than Aslan, who plays a part in each of the novels.

Aslan - The King, Lord of the whole wood, and son of Emperor across the sea. Aslan is The Great Lion. He comes and goes as he pleases, he comes to overthrow the witch ans save Narnia. He has met with almost all the charactors in the book, as he appears in all of them.

Another adventure they had was on Dragon Island which was only called that after the unfortunate situation where Eustance was turned into a dragon because of his greed. When he came back to the camp where everyone was eating dinner, they all got scared and ran away except for Edmund who saw a tear fall from the dragon's eye, and only then did he understand that a person was trapped inside of the fierce body of the dragon. After many attempts to find out who it was, they finally figured it out but could not do anything to change him back to himself- only Aslan could do somthing as superior as that.

sailors who fell in love and lost their lives in the sea.

The remainder of the book tells of they different obstacles that the group meet on their travels, on the Dawn Treader, and each obstacle is an adventure. I enjoyed reading about their many encounters for example- when they reach the Island of voices, which turns out to be little invisible dwarfs who were punished by a magician because they annoyed him, the only way they could be returned to

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Approximate Word count = 1157
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

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