The Narrator then wakes up from his dream. The rest of the novel involves observing conversations in which the Spirits of heaven try to convince the ghosts of Hell to come with them to Heaven. the forecourt heaven), the Narrator realizes that he is a ghost in the afterlife – and that they are on a “vacation” from Hell (ie. Once the bus lands at the Valley of the Shadow of Life (ie. Plot: An unnamed Narrator (an archetype for the “everyman” – ordinary guy) boards a bus that flies over the Grey Town.In rebuttal to Blake, Lewis shows that Heaven is the true source of human enlightenment & happiness, & that Hell is a boring & tiny place. so “marrying” the good & the bad in your life is the path to enlightenment), Lewis, in a short & entertaining fantasy novel, draws upon the Medieval idea of the refrigerium (souls in Hell getting a refreshment/vacation to Heaven) to explain the clear difference between Heaven and Hell.
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