We are finishing up The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. In the book, Screwtape is a demon/devil who is writing letters to his nephew, Wormwood. In the letters, he's instructing Wormwood on how to corrupt a particular human and commenting on different aspects of the human's life and events that occur. Themes in the book include relationships, marriage, war, compassion, cowardice, hell, temptation, humans' relationships with God, the ultimate goal of demons and Satan, etc.
This is about my third reading through the book. This time, we decided to listen to the audiobook version.
On Youtube, there is an audiobook version of the book narrated by John Cleese and it is excellent! This audiobook is an abridged version, but it's really only condensed by a couple of chapters.
We used Sparknotes to get through the book. Several of the chapters are difficult to work through and we needed some extra help.
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/screwtape-letters/
This website has a book summary, individual chapter summaries, literary devices, essay topic suggestions, and in-depth character analyses.
The audiobook + Sparknotes turned out to be excellent. I'm working though this book with the 14 year-old and she has been able to follow everything with no problem. She said this was her favorite book so far this year.
If anyone would like to hear C.S. Lewis actually speaking, go onto Youtube and search for "C.S. Lewis' surviving BBC radio address." He's giving a talk about how God doesn't experience time like humans do - where we have a past, present and future timeline. God and Heaven doesn't experience time the same way. It's fascinating.
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