The ghost says that he had lived a good life and was overall a good person, yet he is not saved while the murderer is. The first conversation that appears in the book is between a spirit who committed murder, repented and gave his life to Jesus, and a ghost who is confused why he is not saved. From this point on, Lewis focuses on the conversations between the spirits and the ghosts. The goal of the spirit is to convince the ghost to stay in heaven with them and not return to hell. Each spirit pairs up with one of the ghosts and shows them around.
Soon some people from heaven start to arrive. From this point on in the book, Lewis refers to them as such. Everything felt so real, that they themselves felt like ghosts. Heaven is like nothing else the people have felt before it felt more real than anything ever before. Lewis describes heaven as a wilderness paradise and very Eden-like. The reader is once again led to believe that this place is heaven. After a long journey, the bus finally land on top of a cliff and all of the passengers get out. The land is so enormous that the boundaries cannot even be seen. To their great surprise, the bus did not drive away it flew away! As they gained altitude, the vastness of the tumultuous land becomes vividly clear. The remaining passengers piled on board, waiting for the journey to begin.
Lewis describes that the driver is a man who “seemed full of light” (Lewis, 3). Without further ado, the bus finally arrives. They are annoyed with each other at the slightest disturbance, and some of them even leave the bus station. It becomes apparent very quickly that these people are not the friendliest of people. There is a long line of people waiting, so he falls in line with the rest of them. Eventually, he stumbles upon a bus station, along with many other passengers. The narrator takes the reader throughout the streets of this peculiar place. The reader is led to believe that this place is hell. The book begins in a sad, dark, desolate place.
In many ways, it is a refutation of Blake’s book there is no marriage of heaven and hell. Lewis wrote the book as a response to William Blake’s book, Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Content Summary The book, The Great Divorce, was written in 1945 by C.
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