Screwtape Proposes a Toast

This letter is from later in time. Screwtape is at the annual dinner for the Tempters' Training College for devils. He is there because the principal, Slubgob, has asked him to give a toast as the guest of honor. In his toast he talks about how the flavor was lost of many great sinners before. Also that that night's meal was more or less for people who went to hell for smaller crimes like corruption. Throughout this book Screwtape has been trying to convert Wormwood's patient away from Christianity. He corrupted him in a sense. I feel like that is an example of how people go to hell for small things like that rather than something larger like a genocide. All in all I felt that the book was a pretty easy read with some interesting characters and plots. 

Screwtape Letter # 31

The letter I chose to do was the last letter of Screwtapes, Letter 31. In this letter WOrmwood realizes that all is lost and want to know if his uncle really loved him or ever really even did. When Screwtape responds to this he does it in a way that is very nasty and mean. He assures WOrmwood that their mutual desire for each other has always been the same, but states that he is the stronger of the 2 in the world of Hell. In this world the strong prey on the weak and it will never change. The man was killed in this letter. Screwtape describes the incident as "the scream of bombs, the fall of houses, the stink and taste of high explosives on the lips and in the lungs, the feet burning with weariness, the heart cold with horror, the brain reeling..." (p. 172). This seemed very descriptive for me and somewhat unnesassary but that is also how Screwtape's actions have been throughout the book. All in all I think that this book has had its ups and downs but was a pretty easy read. I do not know how I feel about it still in terms of recommending it to a friend, but maybe after reading some blogs on it they could tell for themselves.