The screwtape letters

After seeing The Screwtape letters on Broadway, I thought it was time to delve into the mysterious world of our own devils, and daemons, all with the guidance of "your affectionate uncle Screwtape" This story by C.S. Lewis (yes think Narnia) is a lesser known story than Narnia, which, for all the hype it got, I feel myself detesting. However, the screwtape letters are simply amazing. They follow a daemon named Wormwood, through his uncles letters to him, about the person he is trying to bring to "our father below."
The story itself is almost a moral, and pokes at our own vices. And is hilarious. (yes this is still the man who wrote Narnia)but I love the way that it seems when the devils are looking down on us the way we look down on beings who we see lower than us. It talks about humanity, as below them, something which i would bet would make most of us humans feel pretty uncomfortable, I mean being thought of as food, and, even highly inferior, really puts you in your place. I hate to make a horrible pun here, but at this point I feel I must point out tat Lewis has us playing the devil's Advocate. Seeing what life would be like down below. And shockingly, it isn't that different from life up above on earth. person attacking person and makes us think about our humanity as a whole. I like it a lot more than I thought I would. It is an amazing boo, and I would recommend it to anyone who has ever thought about any of these issues.

Harry potter and the order of the pheonix

well well well, it seems I am re reading harry potter for the umteenth time. I love that series. Out of all of them, I feel this might have been the book that people liked the least, but really, it supplies a solid backround for the next two books. without the * spoiler * Death of sirius black, harry's godfather, he wouldn't have been so prompted to want to make a change and fight all out against voldemort, it wouldn't have set the, harry ron hermione alone backdrop for book 7, they could have just stayed with sirius. If he haden't gone out with Cho, then he wouldn't have gone into hogsmede, and began to have gotten jelous of Ginny. As well, without sirius's death, aberforth couldn't have sent dobby to help harry at malfoy mannor, because sirius would have seen it but not have been able to apparate in. As well, dobby wouldn't have died, and harry would have someone to go to after dumbledores death * spoiler * events of the fith book, many events couldn't have occured. as well, it expressed the fact that the trio is growing up, and with them, really promotes the oncomming darkness of the series. Sort of the maturity of the books, and those of us who grew up with the series know that as we grew, so did the books. The themes of loss and dispair began to change too, but also the theme that provides closure in the seventh book, the idea of not just friend ship, but that they have "something worth fighting for". Also, it begins to promote the idea that voldemort has alot more to him then just an evil antagonist. * In the sixth book we find tha voldemort like harry was an abused "orphan", as Voldemort's father was as good as dead. Voldemorts life reflects the alternet life of harry. He could have channeled his anger and fear and dispair in an evil course, but he chose not to, he chose to not hide, like voldemort hides "behind the mask of lord voldemort, for which he has hidden for so long." Albus dumbledore. It also sets up dumbledores great weakness, it proves he can fail, and is a major loss of innocence part, he realizes dumbledore cannot solve everything and resents him for it.

Today I am reading where's my wand

okay so I finished it, I know I haven't posted on it yet, but I read fast. Anyway, this book follows the life of Eric Poole, an 8 to 15 year old struggling with his belief in god and magic. Okay, so he stars out, in the 60's in church, listening to all of these amazing tales of goe, and believing all of them, I am no atheist but I wonder why they (the church would feel it's okay to force a kid to believe something, he thought he could do magic by dressing up like a character in the old t.v. show bewitched, now of course he grew out of this but, the church really forced him to think it was their way or the highway.
I also think that the way his parents behave is interesting, more specifically, is mom and his moms mom, or his grandmother. I think his mom who acts like a total neat/control freak does so because her mother was so the opposite, and I feel while that is not necessarily the best way to be, it is complexity normal, and I feel alot of people tend to gravitate toward who their parents aren't.
Another theme in this book is loss of innocence. He thinks that he is magic and that everything will last forever, but it won't, things don't happen like that, and that is his major discovery throughout the plot of the story, that you can't be a child forever, however much you'd like to be.

letters from mum

So, here I am, I want to post about a shocking revelation in the book, that demonstrates the complicated relationship shared by father and son. First
a spoiler ALERT

*****THE MOTHER IS NOT DEAD********** there but they found some letters from his mother before the incident ************the mother wrote letters to the son to try to communicate*********** the father hid these letters, I just think that this proves that the father might be, in a way, jealous, he was trying to protect his son, but I feel, jelous of his wife for the life she has.

to fairness, it must be hard, to take care of someone with aspergers syndrome, but still, I feel his response was not okay by any means. He wanted to protect but also protect himself from what she did, and felt his son would feel the same way but was afraid he wouldn't, this is my opinion.