Like any good author, he takes the opportunity to plunge his pen deep into the heart of the sillinesses and absurdities of his day. As he gets to the end of his wonderful adventure, Lewis takes a final dig at "establishment schools" of mid-20th century England.When the protaganists of the story, Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole, return to England from Narnia, they return at the moment they left, a moment where they were about to be ridiculed and wedgied by the bullies of their school. But Scrubb and Pole were very different people upon their return, and to make matters worse for the bullies, they return with a Narnian prince and with a massive lion.
The principal, or Head, heard the to-do and arrived in time to see the enormous feline and regaled prince bringing justice to the unjust schoolyard. She flew into hysterics and called the police. The deific cat and prince returned to Narnia after everything was set to right, but the Head remained in hysterics. The police saw nothing but a blathering biddy. Lewis writes,
"And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House (the school) came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after."As I was reading this to my girls, I choked with laughter. All I could think about were community organizers.
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