C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters

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The work of fiction that has had the most effect on my life and the way I see the world is C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters. The Screwtape Letters was my first experience with the work of C.S. Lewis besides his series The Chronicles of Narnia. As The Chronicle of Narnia only has underlying tones of Christian theology, it is easy to see passed it and just see a light-hearted action-adventure novel. But in The Screwtape Letters it is much harder to dismiss it is as just an adventure story. The novel is about two demons brainstorming the demise of their patients. I first encountered the novel in seventh grade because I had friends in high school that were reading it in a discussion group. The language in the novel is difficult for a seventh grader.

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