After a long journey, the bus finally land on top of a cliff and all of the passengers get out. The land is so enormous that the boundaries cannot even be seen. To their great surprise, the bus did not drive away it flew away! As they gained altitude, the vastness of the tumultuous land becomes vividly clear. The remaining passengers piled on board, waiting for the journey to begin. Lewis describes that the driver is a man who “seemed full of light” (Lewis, 3). Without further ado, the bus finally arrives. They are annoyed with each other at the slightest disturbance, and some of them even leave the bus station. It becomes apparent very quickly that these people are not the friendliest of people. There is a long line of people waiting, so he falls in line with the rest of them. Eventually, he stumbles upon a bus station, along with many other passengers. The narrator takes the reader throughout the streets of this peculiar place. The reader is led to believe that this place is hell. The book begins in a sad, dark, desolate place. In many ways, it is a refutation of Blake’s book there is no marriage of heaven and hell. Lewis wrote the book as a response to William Blake’s book, Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Content Summary The book, The Great Divorce, was written in 1945 by C.
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