Eustace Scrubb

Eustace Scrubb was the cousin of the Pevensies. Eustace first encounters Edmund and Lucy who had come to stay with his family while their parents are on holiday. He was good friends with Jill Pole.

Experiment House
Eustace was an insufferable boy who called his parents by their first names and attended a "modern" school called Experiment House. Though he was younger than Edmund and Lucy, he called them childish because he once heard them discussing Narnia among themselves. Eustace collected insects pinned to cards and hasn't read "the right sort of books", preferring to read books about science and how things work. Bossy and nosey, he had no friends before visiting Narnia.

Eustace through the Painting
Eustace is pulled into Narnia along with Edmund and Lucy through a painting in the spare bedroom of his home. The three arrive in the water next to the Dawn Treader, which is captained by Caspian X. Eustace cannot swim, and once they are pulled aboard the ship he is furious and does not believe that they really are in Narnia. He insults the Dawn Treader and demands that he be brought to the British Consul. Eustace does not like Reepicheep, and believes him to be some kind of circus act rather than the free Narnian that he is. When Caspian, Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace are taken captive and sold as slaves, the slave traders could not even give Eustace away. Reepicheep challenges Eustace to a duel after being teased and Eustace claims to be a pacifist.

Eustace Undragoned
This turning point of Eustace's character in Voyage of the Dawn Treader has come to be known as Eustace's "Undragoning". After suffering damage from a storm, the Dawn Treader landed on an island (which they later call Dragon Island) to make repairs. The first afternoon they are on the island, Eustace wanders off to avoid having to do any work. He comes to find a cave with a large dragon outside of it, but the dragon dies as he watches. It begins to rain and Eustace seeks shelter in the cave where he finds a large treasure, including a gold bracelet which he puts on and shoves partway up his arm because it is too large for him. He falls asleep and when he awakens, he has turned into a dragon. Not having read the right sort of books, Eustace does not even realize that he is a dragon, but he finds himself changed and in pain, as the gold bracelet is still on his arm and is now cutting into his flesh. He goes outside to drink and ends up eating about half of the dead dragon.

Eustace as a dragon tries to get the attention of the others without scaring them. Lucy finally decides that he might be trying to ask for help, and tries a drop of her cordial on his leg. It helps to heal the skin but it cannot dissolve the gold. Eustace has to write a message in the sand to communicate that it is him, as he cannot speak. As a dragon, Eustace is very useful and helpful to the crew of the Dawn Treader as he is able to get a large tree that they needed for repairs and catch goats for their meals, but he is lonesome and wishes that he could talk with the others. As the repairs near completion the crew worry about what to do with him once it is time to leave.

Finally one night, Eustace hears Aslan calling to him and saying "Follow Me". Eustace tells Edmund later that he was afraid, though as a dragon he could've eaten any lion; he wasn't afraid of being eaten, he was just afraid of it. He follows Aslan and is taken to a pool where he longs to bathe his leg. Aslan tells him that he must first undress. Eustace isn't wearing any clothes, but decides that perhaps he can cast his skin like a snake. He scratches at his scales until a whole skin comes off, but as he steps up to put his foot in the pool, he sees that it still has scales. He tries again, and a third time to take his skin off to no avail and begins to fear that he will never be able to do it. Aslan says "You will have to let me undress you." and tears the skin from Eustace then picks him up and drops him into the pool. As Eustace washes he realizes that his arm doesn't hurt anymore because he's turned back into a boy. He returns to the camp and tells Edmund what had happened to him.

Eustace is a changed person.

Quest to find Prince Rillian
Eustace Scrubb is now at school. Seeing a girl being bullied he rans with her into the wood. There he reveals to Jill Pole his secret and his desire to return to Narnia. After falling from the cliff, Eustace is blown to Narnia by Aslan's breath. Meanwhile Jill stays behind and meets Aslan. He tells her that they were called into Narnia to find find the lost prince Rilian, Caspian X's only son. Aslan tells her four signs which she can go by to find him.

"These are the signs by which I will guide you in your quest. First; as soon as the boy Eustace sets foot in Narnia, he will meet an old and dear friend. He must greet that friend at once; if he does, you will both have good help. Second; you must journey out of Narnia to the North till you come to the ruined city of the ancient giants. Third; you shall find a writing on a stone in that ruined city, and you must do what the writing tells you. Fourth; you will know the lost prince (if you find him) by this, that he will be the first person you have met in your travels who will ask you to do something in my name, in the name of Aslan."

- Aslan

After this Jill is also blown into Narnia.

Jill asks Eustace if he recognizes a former friend, as this is the first sign, but he fails to do so. After talking with Trumpkin the dwarf Eustace is shocked to hear that Caspian is now an old man, and is traveling to Aslan's country to seek help from the Great Lion as to who should king after him.

Jill and Eustace are welcomed by the court but have to sneak out the same night on orders of Glimfeather, an owl. He tells them that no one is allowed to go looking for the prince now, because many brave and noble Narnians tried to find him and none of them ever came back. One of the Owls tells them the story of Prince Rilian, after which they are carried by the owls to a Marshwiggle on the borders of Ettinsmoor. The Marshwiggle, named Puddleglum agrees to come and help. They continue to travel until they meet a lady dressed in green, who tells them that Harfang would be a good place to go. Upon reaching it they enter the castle, but next day realize that the giants intend to cook them and eat them for their autumn feast. Before escaping they realize that Harfang is built upon an ancient city, which is the second sign. They also notice a large stone with the words "Under Me". They just manage to escape, but then they drop accidentally down a large hole. This is, as Puddleglum points out, still following the signs as the third was they had to do what the writing said. Down this hole they find a huge world, called Underland. They are taken by about one hundred of the workers to see the Queen of Underland. At first the gnomes that had taken them decide to lock them up, but a human who lives in a more "real" room, invites them up. He tells them how the "Queen's Grace" saved him from many enchantments, but that he was still under one. He told them not on any account to unbind him from the chair that he would be tied to, the Silver Chair, claiming that he would first become a wild man, and kill his friends, and then turn into a serpent. He also told them that the Queen was planning to make him King of a world in Overland, by breaking out after digging with an army of Earthmen to take it. The children and the Marsh-wiggle hide so the gnomes do not spot them when they came to bind the man, and come out of hiding to see the young man bound to the Silver Chair. He soon goes into a fit, and begins pleading them to release him. "Quick! I am sane now. If only I could get out of this enchanted chair, it would last. But every night they bind me, and so every night my chance is gone. But you are not enemies. I am not your prisoner. Quick! Cut these cords."

- Rilian So the man keeps going on in this way until Jill says she can "hardly bare it" finally, the prisoner says "...by Aslan I charge you-"

- Rilian

They realize it is the sign, and wonder whether they should let a maniac loose on themselves, finally they decide to and the man leaps up and grabs his sword, but instead of killing them, he destroys the Silver Chair hacking it into bits. Afterward the man turns and thanks them, and tells them that he is Prince Rilian and that he is the son of Caspian X. But before then can think out any sort of plan the Lady of the Green Kirtle enters. She then began putting them all under a spell by putting some green stuff on a fire. This makes thinking difficult and convinces all the humans that there is no world but Underland. However Puddleglum resists for longer, and stamps out the fire. The Queen, losing her temper turned herself into the horrible green serpent that killed Rilian's mother, and tries to kill Rilian. Rilian defends himself and hacks off the snake's head, along with Puddleglum and Eustace. After a while they realize that the whole Underland is caving in, so they try to escape. They are worried about the level of the water which is rising all the time. At first they think the gnomes are going to fight them, but when they realize that the gnomes are friendly, (they are no longer under any spell) they carry on. The Prince tells them that they will have to go up the tunnel that the Queen was going to use to invade a country in Overland. They ride up this and finally reach the end, where there is only a few feet of soil between them and the land above. They come out and quickly take Rilian to see Caspian X who had seen Aslan, and when he did Aslan told him to go back and there he would find his son. They meet but, only seconds after seeing each other after all those years Caspian X dies. Aslan comes and takes Eustace and Jill away to the country where they started. Here Caspian comes back to life and greets Eustace, Aslan and Jill. He is sent back into Eustace's world along withe Eustace and Jill, who give the bullies at the school such a fright and hiding that the Headmaster rings up the police with stories about a Lion and Lunatics. The end result is that the Headmaster of the school is fired and the bullies expelled. Meanwhile Caspian and Aslan have gone back.