Chapter 16-18

In chapter 17 Screwtape is telling Wormwood the his friends mother is a selfish person. She is used to getting what she wants and lately she does not receive anything properly as it was like back in the day. She's greedy and which makes her and her son feel very uncomfortable. She's picky and wants everything her way. He also states that women are more about vanity. I'm not sure if he's trying to sound and is sexist. I was just a bit confused on this chapter but it was interesting to read. On page 90 and 91, I was a bit lost because it seems that he is trying to say that women should cater to men and their needs. Then I think he says that we women should make sure their men/solders should be taken care of even though you have to lie to them? I really don't like this book and it is too confusing to me.

Chapter 12-15

I'm writing about chapter 15 and it was pretty interesting to me. I didn't understand the beginning as I did in the end of the letter. In the beginning, I think Screwtape tells Wormwood that we should live in the present to its fullest and the enemy doesn't. The enemy only looks at the future and we want the enemy to look at the present day. From what I think Screwtape says, he says that we should look at the present because we don't know what will happen in the future. It's unknown to all of us, it could bring us fear, and it is least like eternity. He means that the future is temporary. It's temporary because we don't know when we are going to die. We have to plan for tomarrow and we should not give our hearts to the future. I think he's trying to say live you day everyday like there is no tomarrow? I liked what he said on pg.78. He says: "We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbows end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using a mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered them in the present."

Chapter 8-11

Screwtape seems to tell wormwood alot of good useful information. In one of his letters, he tells him to make good use of anything, even his enemy's because he wants His creatures (meaning humans) to be a replicate of his life. (i think). In chapter nine, it was a little bit more easier to read, but i don't relate to it. He says that humans seem to easily fall in love so quickly. They have more energy in the beginning of the relationship and sometimes in the it's not what you thought it would be. So that's when relationships end. It can be dissappointing to some people because people wonder what happened with the fun and excitement when they first met? on the second page of Ch. 9, i think what he's also trying to say is that when you should meet someone, it should not be at a druken moment because it's not a real thing? i think that is what it says??? Also, that God created this invention for two people to become one. So he says that we must put in some effort into one another instead of one putting effort and the other not.