Jill Pole

Jill Pole
Narnia character
Jill Pole, as portrayed by Camilla Power in the 1990 BBC production of the The Chronicles of Narnia
Race	Human
Nation	England
Gender	Female
Birthplace	England, Earth
Major character in
The Silver Chair The Last Battle
Portrayals in adaptations
The Chronicles of Narnia: Camilla Power

Jill Pole is a major character from C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series. She appears in The Silver Chair and The Last Battle.

Very little is known about Jill's family or her life before she becomes friends with Eustace Scrubb. The only thing that is made clear is that she was bullied (like many other pupils) at her school by a group of truly mean children referred to as Them, and that, when she needed to cry, she often took refuge behind the gym, where Eustace finds her at the beginning of The Silver Chair. It's also shown that she likes horses, and has learned to ride in England.

It is also mentioned that, unlike Eustace, Jill is not afraid of heights, but that she does not like being in small dark places.

Jill is in the same year as Eustace Scrubb in school. It is implied that Jill had been victimised by a gang of bullies. Eustace had been among the bullies until the previous year, after he had returned from his adventure in Narnia as a reformed character, and Jill warned him that he was likely to be the next target of the gang who had been bullying her.

However, at the start of the story, Eustace and Jill become friends partly because of the change in Eustace's character and behaviour following his experience in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. She works out that the bullies have targeted Eustace as their next victim.

She and Eustace, following the policy of their "experimental" school, address each other by surname throughout The Silver Chair, but develop a genuine affection for each other during the course of the story: near the very end, they address each other as "Jill" and "Eustace". With Eustace, she is called by Aslan into Narnia, and given the task of finding the missing Prince Rilian. After completing the quest, the schoolmates are returned to their world. Aslan and Caspian come with them to chasten the bullies and give Experiment House the upheaval it needs. Jill's experiences in Narnia make her much better able to cope with the adversities that face her, including apparently overcoming her claustrophobia, and she and Eustace remain close friends through the period of time that lapses prior to her return to Narnia in The Last Battle.