C. S. Lewis' stories are rife with characters whom one can admire - think Aslan and the Pevensie children from Chronicles of Narnia - and Out of the Silent Planet is no exception. Dr. Elwin Ransom continuously shows how possessing a generous, caring heart and a chivalrous tendency assists one along in life, regardless the planet on which they walk. The reader sees Ransom's altruism in his initial helping of the woman who lost her son in Chapter One. Even though he had just been refused a room at an inn and had to walk six miles to the next nearest hostel, he willingly and readily drops that desire and succeeds in finding the boy. However, his acts of breaking and entering into the mansion in which the boy was working and stepping in to help