Jill Pole

Jill Pole is a classmate of Eustace's at a school called Experiment House. This is a modern school in which the classes are co-ed and the Head Mistress allows things such as bullying because she sees them as a psychological experiment. Jill is one of the victims of the bullies and this is how the reader first sees her, hiding from the bullies. Eustace comes to see Jill and tries to cheer her up by telling her about Aslan and Narnia. Jill wants to go to Narnia and Eustace calls out to Aslan, but before they can get an answer they must run from the gym due to an approaching group of bullies.

Once they arrive in Narnia through a door in the garden, Jill is no longer the crying victim but a brave young woman who wants to prove her lack of fear of heights. In...