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Out of the Silent Planet

The book Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis gives us a view of the human condition from an outsider's perspective. The Christian concepts of sin, the heavenly host and the Creator are all a part of this story by Lewis. Here they are given a science fictional backdrop. In this story, we are shown our sinfulness and its forever negative attributes such as fear, greed, anger and insanity, from an innocent person’s view. Though we, as a culture and a people, have a spectrum of good to evil, even the best of us falls short in perfect trust and love.
Our hero, Ransom, is abducted in a nefarious plot and taken to an alien land on the planet Malacandra. His captors wish to offer him as a ...

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that is animal-like in appearance, but soon Ransom realizes this it is an intelligent, rational being who he judged too quickly. They are able to communicate through body language and Ransom is rescued from his issue. He happily settles down with these beings, the hrossa and lives among them learning their language and customs. As the story continues we learn that all the creatures throughout the universe are in contact with one another with the exception of earth, which had gone silent once the "bent one", most likely Satan, took control of our world. This is where the Christian philosophies begin to introduce themselves in the story.
We are shown our fallen nature through the eyes of rational creatures, those who have not fallen, and seemingly in this story, never will. Ransom feels guilty before them all, even though he can be considered the best of the humans present at Malacandra. When he realizes his mistakes, he, just as we human today, still fall short. He ...

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Added: 4/4/2011 03:46:58 PM
Submitted By: nisharene
Category: Religion
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