The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was about Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace joining some of their Narnian friends to journey to the end of Narnia’s world to find seven banished lords. Lucy and her companions had to confront sea monsters, a mysterious magician, sea people, and a pool which turned things into gold.

The story began when Lucy and Edmund were visiting Eustace on Earth. While they were looking at a picture of a boat in the ocean, suddenly it became real. After they fell into the picture and began to drown, sailors from the boat rescued them. Lucy and Edmund discovered that the boat belonged to their friends in Narnia, Prince Caspian and Reepicheep, a talking mouse. The three children from Earth joined the sailors to find the seven banished lords and possibly sail to the end of the world.

Their first destination was the Lone Islands which on Caspian and the children from earth were captured and were made slaves. However, Caspian was sold to one of the lords. Caspian was freed and formed a plan that they would make the king of the Lone Islands think they had a large army and make him surrender his throne. After they do this, the lord is made king and the children are freed.

On the next island, they found one of the lord’s arm bands and assumed he had died on this island. When they left that island they confronted a sea monster. The ship almost was crushed but they escaped. They came to another island on which they found a pool. There was a statue of a man in the pool. They figured out that the statue was a lord whom the water had turned to gold.

Once again, they traveled to an island and helped invisible people become visible by reading a magician’s spell book. When they left that island they came to a black mist. After traveling through it they heard a voice. Because the voice was from one of the lords, so they brought him onto their ship. They docked on a small island where they found the three remaining lords were asleep at a banquet. Caspian learned that in order to waken them, he must travel to the end of the world and leave one member there. When they got to the end of the world, Reepicheep was left behind because he thought that after the end of the earth was Aslan’s country. The three children went with Reepicheep and Aslan sent them back to Earth.

In the beginning of this story, Eustace was annoying and disrespectful. In front of Reepicheep, the mouse, Eustace blurted out, “I hate mice, they’re silly and vulgar and-and sentimental.” Again, he said to the mouse “what on earth’s that. Take it away, the horrid thing.” When Eustace asked “whether there was a sign of the storm getting less, but Caspian said, “What storm!”” This showed us that Eustace was being annoying when he kept on complaining.

However, after Eustace had been a dragon he became courageous and useful. He makes this change because when he is in the dragon’s cave he thinks he is seeing the dragon. He is really looking at himself. Then he realizes how horrible he had become. When Eustace started to help the sailors “it was clear to everyone that Eustace’s character had improved.” When the sea monster was attacking the ship Eustace “now did the first brave thing he had ever done. As soon as the serpent’s body was near enough he began hacking at it with all his might.” When Eustace was on the island as a dragon he “was very anxious to help. He flew over the whole island and found that it was inhabited by only goats and droves of old swine. Of these he brought back many provisions.”

The setting in the beginning of the story was populated and corrupt or dangerous. The islands were full of corrupt leaders and society. As the story went on the setting became less populated but remained corrupt or dangerous. In the beginning of the story, when they landed on the Lone Islands, “there was slave merchants dressed in black.” The three children “were rowed out to a slave ship and taken to a long, rather dark place.”

The next place they went to an island with a dragon. Eustace “had been surprised at the dragon’s behavior” on the island. The dragon “that came out of the cave was nothing he would have imagined.” The population got smaller; there was only “goats and droves of wild swine” besides the dragon.

They landed on another island. This island had “water that turned things into gold.” This was dangerous because a lord they were looking for “undressed at the top of the hill and dived into the pool.”

They traveled to an island inhabited by a small group of people. The people that inhabited this island were “wielding spears” and threatened them to do what they want. Then they traveled to an island “surrounded by a dark mist.” The island was “an accursed place.”

Because Eustace changed from useless to useful and the setting changed from being corrupt and dangerous to less populated but still corrupt this means that Eustace always had the capability to do evil actions because the corruptness was still there. However, since the population got smaller and smaller Eustace started to have more control of his actions and stop himself from doing evil actions.