I found this article on the internet. Eustace Clarence Scrubb is a character I strongly relate to. He reminds me so much of myself - he needed redemption and Aslan un-dragoned him - just as Christ is doing for all of us...
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and masters called him Scrubb. I can't tell you how his friends spoke to him, for he had none. He didn't call his Father and Mother "Father" and "mother," but Harold and Alberta. They were very up-to-date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on beds and the windows were always open."
~ The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, p.1
...C.S. Lewis paints a powerful image of redemption and the freedom we find in Christ. Like Aslan, Christ must move toward us and do what only He can do -- free us from the guilt and power of enslaving sin. Try as we may, we can not rid ourselves of the dragon that dwells within each of us. It is only the finished work of Christ that can accomplish the task. Through Christ we are to put off the old self and put on the new self. It is Christ that makes all things new.
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