Character

Jill Pole

Also known as Jill

Eustace’s schoolmate and a Friend of Narnia. Aslan entrusts her with four signs for the search for Prince Rilian, and she later answers Tirian’s call in Narnia’s final days.

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In the chronicles

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The Silver Chair32 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym.Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 2…ot going to be a school story, so I shall say as little as possible about Jill's school, which is not a pleasant subject. It was "Co-educational", a school for both boys and girls, what used…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 1Without a glance at Jill the lion rose to its feet and gave one last blow. Then, as if satisfied with its work, it turned and stalked sl…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 2"It must be a dream, it must, it must," said Jill to herself. "I'll wake up in a moment." But it wasn't, and she didn't.Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 1What made Scrubb look so dingy (and Jill too, if she could only have seen herself) was the splendour of their surroundings. I had better describe them a…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 3Farther back, in a half-circle, stood what Jill at once knew to be the courtiers. They were well worth looking at for their clothes and armour alone. As far as…Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 1…g to bed; especially if you are lucky enough to have a fire in your room. Jill felt she couldn't even start undressing unless she sat down in front of the fire for a bit first. And once she …Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 2… that the beak had made the tapping noise. "It's some huge bird," thought Jill. "Could it be an eagle?" She didn't very much want a visit even from an eagle, but she opened the window and lo…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 1Jill was asleep. Ever since the owls' parliament began she had been yawning terribly and now she had dropped off. Sh…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 3"I'm sick of adventures," said Jill crossly.Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 1… the shoals and stepping-stones. It was a shallow, noisy stream, and even Jill was not wet above her knees when they reached the northern bank. About fifty yards ahead, the land rose up to t…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 4…hed on and up as far as they could see. On their left was rockier ground. Jill thought that must be the edge of the giants' gorge and did not much care about looking in that direction. They …Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 2…ten o'clock the first tiny snow flakes came loitering down and settled on Jill's arm. Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly. In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white. An…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 4…se the snow now lay quite deep on the ledge. They then had a stiff climb--Jill fell once--up very rough ground for about a hundred yards, and came to a second ledge. There were four of these…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 2Jill found that her mouth was so dry that she couldn't speak a word. She nodded savagely at Scrubb.Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 5…ueen looked at each other, nodded to each other, and smiled in a way that Jill didn't exactly like. She liked the King better than the Queen. He had a fine, curled beard and a straight eagle…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 1The others admitted afterwards that Jill had been wonderful that day. As soon as the King and the rest of the hunting party had set off, she began makin…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 4…noises in the street. They were eating cold venison, a kind of food which Jill had never tasted before, and she was liking it.Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 7… idly boasting when he spoke of his hundred armed followers died at once. Jill found herself blinking and staring at a dense crowd. They were of all sizes, from little gnomes barely a foot h…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 12…, and the stony floor sloped downward as they proceeded. It was worse for Jill than for the others, because she hated dark, underground places. And when, as they went on, the cave got lower …Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 5"I don't think it's funny at all," said Jill. "I think you'll be a wicked tyrant."Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 7"Where I come from," said Jill, who was disliking him more every minute, "they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives."Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 2She turned very white; but Jill thought it was the sort of whiteness that comes over some people's faces not when they are frightened but when …Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 19"We've been there, too," snapped Jill. She was very angry because she could feel enchantment getting hold of her every moment. But of course the very…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 5"I've been wondering that for some time!" said Jill.Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 11"And what is that red light over there?" asked Jill. "Is something on fire?"Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 4"I think this is simply splendid," said Jill. "I'm so glad we freed the gnomes as well as ourselves when we cut off the Witch's head! And I'm so glad they a…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 11"Hurrah! Now you're talking!" cried Eustace, and Jill said, "But it's not horrid at all up there. We like it. We live there."Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 1…e darkness where they were standing. The others could only hear, not see, Jill's efforts to get onto the Marsh-wiggle's back. That is, they heard him saying, "You needn't put your finger in …Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 2Then they looked up and soon they saw the black shape of Jill's head against the patch of light.Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 1When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Under…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 2Jill sat up and looked around. Puddleglum and Eustace were lying not far away, both fast asleep.Open passage →

The Last Battle24 cited passages⌄

Chapter V · paragraph 16"I'm Eustace Scrubb and this is Jill Pole," said the Boy. "And we were here once before, ages and ages ago, more than a year ago by our time, and there w…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 17"Ha!" cried Tirian, "are you then that Eustace and that Jill who rescued King Rilian from his long enchantment?"Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 1…ouldn't do without sleep. Also, he had tired them out. First he had given Jill some practice in archery and found that, though not up to Narnian standards, she was really not too bad. Indeed…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 4…Calormen. If I draw my sword then thou, Eustace, must do likewise and let Jill leap behind us and stand with an arrow on the string. But if I cry 'Home,' then fly for the Tower both of you. …Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 16"Don't they understand?" said Jill impatiently.Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 20"I'm Jill," she said. "The same Jill who rescued King Rilian from the enchantment--and this is Eustace who did it too--an…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 2…ne look at it Puzzle gave a screaming bray and darted into the Tower. And Jill (who was no coward, as you know) hid her face in her hands to shut out the sight of it. The others watched it f…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 7But instead of answering him Tirian slipped his arm behind Jill's shoulders and said, "How is it with you, Lady?"Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 4"B--but we've done nothing," said Jill who was shivering, not with fear exactly but because everything was horrible.Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 6"No, no, no," said Jill (very white when she began speaking and then suddenly very red and then white again). "We won't, I don't care w…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 1Jill felt something tickling her ear. It was Jewel the Unicorn, whispering to her with the wide whisper of a horse's…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 23Tirian bent his head to hear something that Jill was trying to whisper in his ear. "What do you think is really inside the Stable?" she said. "Who knows?" said …Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 15"Out on the left, Jill, and try to shoot all you may before they reach us. Boar and Bear next to her. Poggin on my left, Eustace on my…Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 19… killed it. The Bull also was down, shot through the eye by an arrow from Jill and gashed in his side by the Boar's tusk. But our side had its losses too. Three dogs were killed and a fourth…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 1Jill ought to have been back at the white rock already but she had quite forgotten that part of her orders the excit…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 4Even then Jill remembered to keep her face turned aside, well away from her bow. "Even if I can't stop blubbing, I won't get m…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 10"Why were they?" asked Jill. "You don't mean to say they know about Narnia?"Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 12"And what happened then?" said Jill.Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 2… moorlands that stretch away to the North beyond the River Shribble. Then Jill and Eustace remembered how once long ago, in the deep caves beneath those moors, they had seen a great giant as…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 28"Yes and I did hope," said Jill, "that it might go on for ever. I knew our world couldn't. I did think Narnia might."Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 15"Look!" said Jill suddenly. Someone was coming, rather timidly, to meet them; a graceful creature on four feet, all silvery-grey.…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 24…ountry on top of that mountain beyond the eastern end of the world," said Jill. "I've been there."Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 11…hed the foot of the Waterfall first, but Tirian was only just behind him. Jill was last, so she could see the whole thing better than the others. She saw something white moving steadily up t…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 12…ime they barked they got their mouths and noses full of water. But before Jill had time to notice all these things fully, she was going up the Waterfall herself. It was the sort of thing tha…Open passage →

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