History Literature / TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader

* FountainOfYouth: Ramadu, a retired star, is brought a fire berry every day that takes a little of his age. This will happen until he is a newborn baby and he can rise again.

* GeniusBruiser: Reepicheep is a good player--as long as he doesn't project [[HonorBeforeReason his own character]] onto the pieces.

* CorporalPunishment: "Two dozen" is threatened by Caspian to anybody who steals the valuable drinking water, when there is a shortage of water after a storm.

* SlaveMarket: The main characters are [[MadeASlave captured by slave traders]]. Caspian is rescued/bought by one of the Lords they have been sent to find who recognizes his father in him, but the rest are sent to a slave market. Caspian comes and rescues them before their new owners can take them away. The experience begins the process of breaking Eustace's {{Jerkass}} attitude -- as the narrative notes, being sold as a slave is bad enough, but it's even worse to be offered for sale as a slave and no one wants to buy you.

* SlaveMarket: The main characters are [[MadeASlave captured by slave traders]]. Caspian is rescued/bought by one of the Lords they have been sent to find who recognises his father in him, but the rest are sent to a slave market. Caspian comes and rescues them before their new owners can take them away; no one was willing to take Eustace even for free.

* RichesToRags: It's mentioned that Professor Kirke is no longer the rich man he was in ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'', and he now lives in a small cottage with one spare bedroom, occupied by Peter who's being coached for an exam. There is a throwaway line in the later books saying that his house was bombed during the war, which may be part of the reason for this.

->''"My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise."''

* CaptainsLog: Eustace keeps a diary while aboard the Dawn Treader, and a couple of episodes from the story are told using his journal entries, and completely from [[KnowNothingKnowItAll his point of view]].

* FailedASpotCheck: The sea serpent mistakenly believes it destroyed the Dawn Treader and keeps searching the same patch of ocean for its wreckage, instead of noticing it sailing away.

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: While traditional merfolk dwell in the sea coast of Narnia (as mentioned in LWW), the Dawn Treader Crew encounter a different kind: They are two-legged, bipedal humanoids with ivory skin and dark purple hair who wear no clothing except for royalty (who wear only capes and circlets). They ride giant seahorses, use hunting fish like land hunters use hawks and falcons, and shepherd other kinds of fish as well.
* PortalPicture: How the children enter Narnia. In a back room of Eustace's house, the three of them are looking at a picture of what Lucy describes as "a very Narnian ship" with a prow shaped like the head of a dragon. The picture grows (or the children shrink), sucking the three of them into the water. Fortunately, Caspian sees them, then dives in and brings them on board the Dawn Treader.
* PrankPunishment: [[EccentricMentor The magician Coriakin]] turned the Duffers ([[OurGnomesAreDifferent a kind of gnomes]] he was assigned to govern) into funny one-legged creatures called Monopods as a playful punishment for disobeying him and doing stupid things like planting boiled potatoes (so they wouldn't have to be cooked after) and washing dishes ''before'' the meal. One interpretation is that he wanted them to understand how ridiulously they behaved by making them ''look'' just as ridiculous.

* RefugeInAudacity: Caspian cannot possibly wrest control of the Lone Islands from Gumpas and his slaver allies with the relatively small number of men he has with him on the Dawn Treader. So he makes a huge flashy show of his arrival to keep any of their enemies from ''realizing'' that. It works beautifully.

* VehicleTitle: "Dawn Treader" is the name of the ship.

* PortalPicture: How the children enter Narnia.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: In the magician's book, Lucy finds "an infallible spell to make beautiful her that uttereth it beyond the lot of mortals". The pictures on the spell's page show her reciting the incantation and becoming so lovely that Narnia and all the neighboring countries are laid to waste on account of the kings, dukes, and lords fighting for Lucy's favor. A picture of a growling Aslan then appears, giving Lucy such a fright that she turns the page without saying the spell.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: In the magician's book, Lucy finds "an infallible spell to make beautiful her that uttereth it beyond the lot of mortals". The pictures on the spell's page show her reciting the incantation and becoming so lovely that all the neighboring countries are laid to waste on account of the kings, dukes, and lords fighting for Lucy's favor. A picture of a growling Aslan then appears, giving Lucy such a fright that she turns the page without saying the spell.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: In the magician's book, Lucy finds "an infallible spell to make beautiful her that uttereth it beyond the lot of mortals". The pictures on the spell's page show her reciting the incantation and becoming so lovely that all the neighboring countries are laid to waste on account of the kings, dukes, and lords fighting for Lucy's favor. A picture of a growling Aslan then appears, causing Lucy to become so afraid that she turns the page without saying the spell.