Lewis is speaking straight from the heart. I also give this summary as background information so that you as the blog reader can sense that this piece by CS Lewis is nothing near fiction. I give this summary to say my view of everyone does or will have to struggle with this grief of loss yet the personal grief never is quite the same. CS Lewis writes continuous, run-ons of grief, realism, losing sight of the real “H”, how he needs people but does not want them, and how his boys feel embarrassed for his loss not really for their own. He calls her death “her landfall not her arrival” (pg. And how even though his peers assure him his wife is in a better place now, CS is not so sure. CS Lewis talks of how her death has shaken his faith and views on God. CS Lewis was prepared to lose his wife due to cancer, but I don’t believe he was prepared for the effects of his wife’s absence. This book was written in CS Lewis’ darkest of times…the death of his wife. In saying this, one cannot simply judge CS Lewis’ character based on this particular memoir alone. He was part of the Inklings which contributed works like Lord of the Rings. CS Lewis was known as thee writer of his time. But he is a character outside of himself during this particular setting/time of his life. CS Lewis is the main character of his book A Grief Observed.
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