Please list:
1. Members in group
2. Project proposal, to include format of project. Please be as specific as possible!
More information:
The project proposal should be a reflection of and response to various topics we have discussed in our three books. Presentations should be 5-10 minutes. The day of, you will need to turn in a hard copy of your presentation.
This will need to be at least 800 words. If you are doing a skit, for example, you will need to turn in a script of the skit. If you have written letters to supplement The Screwtape Letters, you will need to turn this in. You can also write an explanation/preface to your Screwtape Letters to count as part of the 800 words.
Lindsey, Althea and Lacey ~
ReplyDeleteOur presentation will be a short skit in which we introduce a new figure that joined the group on the bus from Hell to Heaven in The Great Divorce. This person will be very materialistic, who believes he has bought his way into heaven by good deeds and exorbitant amounts of money. He will begin discussing his views with the narrator on the bus and will end in conversation with a Spirit similar to the ones C.S. Lewis gives us. We will have him discuss his attitude of focusing on his works and contrast him with a Spirit who is poorer and thus "less worthy" in the eyes of our new figure. We will also try to incorporate some of the themes that are discussed in The Screwtape Letters as applicable to our figure.
I apologize, I couldn't remember the names in my group but here is the idea for our presentation:
ReplyDeleteOur presentation will be a short film of a young businessman who has a strange dream and thinks he has died. Earlier that day, he had a business meeting with two other men at his new company. They tell him they are trying to sell a "product" that they can only describe as the "next best thing." (We will be incorporating themes from Screwtape Letters as "products" or counterfeits of God's creation.) The two business people are speaking of their revenues in terms of clients, however, reveal that the product will not be able to deliver what it promises, lasting happiness, yet will help revenues increase by lying. At the end of the meeting, the young businessman accepts the offer to start selling the product in return for a high position in the company which they claim will bring him more happiness. That night he falls asleep and has a strange dream where he thinks he has died and finds himself in a line waiting for a bus while holding the "product in his hands". When the bus finally arrives, the young businessman is asked to "trade in" his "product" for a bus-pass to go to Heaven. The young business man refuses at first but the bus-driver reasons with the young man and tries to show the fallacy of holding onto a lie (we will bring up topics from The Great Divorce here). At the end, he decides to give up the "product" for a bus-pass to heaven where he then wakes up from his sleep with a new determination to put his trust in God then buy and sell the lie of his company.
Just me!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to write some additional entries to the Screwtape Letters and focus on a somewhat modern setting. I think Screwtape's reaction to current world events would be intriguing, as well as his reaction to the technology that we now possess. Do his ideas and "values" in the original book remain applicable to scenarios that we face today? These are some of the issues I will be examining,
Sasha Lo, Elizabeth Fullon, Efrosini Proios, Ginger Wu, Sarah Vaughan
ReplyDeleteWe are going to be making a movie as a film adaptation of the Screwtape Letters. We will include scenes from the novel, but we will also include our own scenario's for the film. We want to focus on how the letters effect the "patient" as well as the dynamic between Screwtape and Wormwood.
I am going to write an additional entry (or two) to the Screwtape Letters. In Chapter 31 we learn that the Patient not only sees God and everyone in heaven, but also Wormwood. I am going to take this and take what Luke 16:19-31 tells us about a rich man and a poor man named Lazarus. In this passage the rich man goes to hell and the poor man to heaven. While in hell, the rich man is in agony and asks for a moment of relief from the torment, but it is not possible. As a result, he then asks if he himself can go and warn his brothers about hell. But, the passage ends with "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead."
ReplyDeleteSince we know that the Patient is able to see Wormwood I am going to write an entry in which we have an individual that is in hell. One of the letters will a retrospect of sorts because it will offer a glimpse of the Patient sharing the gospel with his childhood friend. The other letter will be after the Patient's death and it will show the agony that his friend is now in and will take what is echoed in Luke 16:19-31.
Eric Tsiliacos' group is:
ReplyDeleteEric Tsiliacos
Katelynn Nutter
Kim Agnes
John Josef
Thanks!
just yours truly
ReplyDeleteI'm really interested in the idea of love - a couple of my other classes are touching on this as well, so I plan on putting together a compilation/compare pieces and examine the idea of love across literature. For now, I'm thinking of using parts of The Screwtape Letters and Surprised by Joy from CS Lewis, and Persian poetry and prose from the Middle Ages (mainly Sufi poetry which spoke about love, often of a divine nature)