The Screwtape LettersPages left: 105
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The author of this book is C.S Lewis, he has written many books with numerous award nominations and wins. He wrote such books as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. C.S Lewis was born in Ireland and died November 22, 1963. He was a Christian apologist, essayist, literary critic and a medievalist.
The book is about two devils called Screwtape and Wormwood. It is about these two men sending letters too each other. In these letters Screwtape who is a older more knowledgeable devil; trying to help his nephew Wormwood a much less experienced devil tempt a "patient" away from Christianity into Hell. Through the book Wormwood fails numerous times at converting him as the man is called into the army, meets a Christian girl and falls in love with her and begins attending church. He also succeeds numerous times with with his patient having periods of gluttony or lust. He also succeeds when his "patient" makes new friends who are very judging of others beliefs.
In this book no setting has been clearly established yet. There has only been one very small hint to where and when this may be taking place. The single hint is that it is during one of the World Wars, this means that these men are probably from a country that speaks mainly English as all of the words are in English and there aren't any hints that it may have been translated. The atmosphere is quite normal with little suspense or sadness. Usually, there is an atmosphere of disapointment from Wormwoood failing to do something correctly.
The protagonist of the story is Screwtape. The first personality trait of Screwtape is anger. In this book he is almost always angry with his nephew Wormwood for not doing as he was told or not doing something correct. Example: " May I ask you what you are about? Why have I no report on the the causes of his fidelity to the parish church?" Another personality trait of Screwtape is condescending. Through these letters he shows quite clearly that he believes he far superior and smarter than his nephew Wormwood. Example: "The contemptuous way in which you spoke of catching souls, in your last letter, only shows your ignorance."
So far I'm enjoying this book. I think I enjoy this book as I like to read about the different take on Christianity from a so called devils point of view. There isn't anything I dislike about the book so far, I think that the way the author wrote the book is very interesting and well done. I think how the author has only letters from the protagonist in the book and non from the antagonist is a very neat idea. I would recommend not reading this book if you have a very strong religious background or a very strong atheist back ground as there are very strong Christian concepts and also anti Christian concepts.
Pages read: 104
The author of this book is C.S Lewis, he has written many books with numerous award nominations and wins. He wrote such books as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. C.S Lewis was born in Ireland and died November 22, 1963. He was a Christian apologist, essayist, literary critic and a medievalist.
The book is about two devils called Screwtape and Wormwood. It is about these two men sending letters too each other. In these letters Screwtape who is a older more knowledgeable devil; trying to help his nephew Wormwood a much less experienced devil tempt a "patient" away from Christianity into Hell. Through the book Wormwood fails numerous times at converting him as the man is called into the army, meets a Christian girl and falls in love with her and begins attending church. He also succeeds numerous times with with his patient having periods of gluttony or lust. He also succeeds when his "patient" makes new friends who are very judging of others beliefs.
In this book no setting has been clearly established yet. There has only been one very small hint to where and when this may be taking place. The single hint is that it is during one of the World Wars, this means that these men are probably from a country that speaks mainly English as all of the words are in English and there aren't any hints that it may have been translated. The atmosphere is quite normal with little suspense or sadness. Usually, there is an atmosphere of disapointment from Wormwoood failing to do something correctly.
The protagonist of the story is Screwtape. The first personality trait of Screwtape is anger. In this book he is almost always angry with his nephew Wormwood for not doing as he was told or not doing something correct. Example: " May I ask you what you are about? Why have I no report on the the causes of his fidelity to the parish church?" Another personality trait of Screwtape is condescending. Through these letters he shows quite clearly that he believes he far superior and smarter than his nephew Wormwood. Example: "The contemptuous way in which you spoke of catching souls, in your last letter, only shows your ignorance."
So far I'm enjoying this book. I think I enjoy this book as I like to read about the different take on Christianity from a so called devils point of view. There isn't anything I dislike about the book so far, I think that the way the author wrote the book is very interesting and well done. I think how the author has only letters from the protagonist in the book and non from the antagonist is a very neat idea. I would recommend not reading this book if you have a very strong religious background or a very strong atheist back ground as there are very strong Christian concepts and also anti Christian concepts.
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