In his novel The Great Divorce, CS Lewis depicts two settings: that of a gray town where everything you want is provided and another of wide pastures. These settings, in the book, represent heaven in hell in a certain way, depending on the point of view of the character from which the places are seen. However, the places the main character visits and the journey he undertakes can be used to model the journey of our spiritual walk. Just as the protagonist begins in a dark town then crosses a beautiful but harsh pasture toward the mountains, our lives begin in the darkness of sin, but we then travel through the perilous but worthwhile journey of faith toward eternity with God. As humans, we are born in sin; from a Christian point of view, it is a very dark existence being of the world and trying to satiate oneself with temporary means of pleasure. This resembles the beginning of The Great Divorce: the main character begins wandering a gray city, an experience he describes as "always in the rain and always in the evening twilight." The protagonist later discovers that existence in the Gray City can be described as "hell", from the point of view of solid people. It's not difficult to understand why; it is not uncommon to find a person who “has had such an argument [with their neighbor] that they decide to move.” These feuds involve an overall feeling of hatred towards each other. As it says in 1 John 4:8, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” » Furthermore, in Romans 3:23, the Scripture mentions: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. » God and hatred/sin are mutually exclusive, and therefore the gray city is an existence without God, similar to a life of sin. Note that the... middle of paper ... repentant people are those who have sinned and suffered the most – murderers, thieves, prostitutes, etc. In the novel, there is even a solid person – a murder in his earthly life – attempting to escort one of the ghosts. But ghosts, as we have mentioned, make pitiful excuses because they have never felt completely broken and never felt the need to completely surrender to Him. Therefore, I feel that Lewis is appealing to those who have had some semblance of faith all their lives; he calls them to have the same passion for Christ as the most hardened sinners do when they first encounter Him. In the same way that we will not complain about our food options when we realize that some cannot afford to feed themselves, Lewis shows us that we should not complain when we follow him, because there are those who had to go through hell. earth to fully appreciate his grace.