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A 5 page essay that summarizes and analyzes the plot and characterization used by C.S. Lewis in The Great Divorce, which is an allegorical fantasy that conveys Lewis’s take on theological truths in much the same way that Dante did in The Divine Comedy. No additional sources cited.
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Comedy. The Narrator, Lewis never reveals his name, finds himself in a gray, dismal town and joins a group of people waiting at a bus stop. With the sole exception
of the people waiting at a bus stop, "the whole town seemed to be empty," which is why the Narrator joined the queue (Lewis 1). As with Dante, the
author provides the narrative voice. Lewiss purpose is to relate the incredible details of his journey and the behavior of the passengers on the bus. The Narrator boards the
bus with no idea as to its destination. Therefore, he is quite surprised when the bus launches into the air, leaving the gray town behind them. The bus arrives at
an incredibly beautiful countryside. It is at this point that the Narrator finds out that he and his fellow passengers are ghosts, insubstantial and therefore unable to have an effect
on a single blade of grass, as everything in this substantial and far more real than anything that they encountered in their lives on earth. The ghosts are soon met
by residents of Heaven, Spirits, who, unlike the Ghosts, appear to be solid. The Spirits each pair off with a Ghost in order to persuade that individual to abandon the
pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals little about the Narrator,
other than that he has astute powers of observation and is therefore good at relating the behavior of his fellow passengers and the details of his journey. What Lewis focuses
upon are the rationalizations of the Narrators fellow passengers as to why they should return to the dismal gray town. For example, a Spirit greets a man whom he knew
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