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. Background: Written in 1944 as a response to William Blake’s famous poem, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in which Blake says that good & evil are 2 sides of the same coin & equally necessary to life (ie.
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