Module 7 Reading Assignment
• Check out the module 7 video.
• Read ch. 1-7 of The Great Divorce.
Module Tasks
Go over the Term Paper topics document and email the instructor with
your choice.
Answer the following questions. Responses should be ~200 words each.
Respond to the postings of at least two other students. Responses should be ~50
words.
1. Consider the setting of Hell in the opening chapters. In what sense is this Gray
Town like and unlike standard Christian depitions and expectations of eternal
damnation?
Evaluate Lewis’s “supposal” of Hell.
2. Demons and angels hardly appear in this work. Instead we are faced with the
ghosts and the solid people. What is Lewis’s purpose in making the ghosts and the
solids the focus of the work? What does it suggest about Lewis’s vision of the
human person?