Just Like Heaven

The movies Sweet Home Alabama and Just Like Heaven have further in common than just the leading lady, Reese Witherspoon. These two movies represent the romantic ideals of society in appropriately similar ways. Both movies teach valuable lessons in telling how Hollywood chooses to portray what the concept of love is and how it develops in romantic films. In Sweet Home Alabama the first concept of love is the chemistry between the two characters. Right off the bat, the chemistry between the two leading characters-Jake Perry and Melanie Smooter- is obvious. There previous tension between the two for years, there has been a deep romantic bond in the past and that there is still a little sizzle between the two. Throughout the movie their love from the past resurfaces. Love develops in Sweet Home Alabama from mutual dislike to tolerance to liking to true love. The fire between…

can’t always come here with me.” When we were driving in to town the leaves blew up, and swirled around like a tornado. As I walked into…

Lewis uses his Biblical understanding of Heaven to signify that Heaven is immeasurably more important when in comparison to either Earth or Hell. The substance of Heaven is truer and the reality of Heaven much deeper than the temporal substance of Earth. Lewis demonstrates this through his description of Heaven and the corresponding description of Hell. He writes; I had the sense of being in a larger space, perhaps even a larger sort of space, than I had ever known before: as if the sky were…

after death but even so, their interpretation of what life after death will exactly be like, also differs a lot from one another. This further tends to affect how people carry out their lives on earth. Some live life by the ‘You only live once (YOLO)’ motto while others believe that life on earth is just a test from God and thus they should truly follow his commandments as perfectly as possible to be rewarded in the life hereafter. The main reason for the differences between people’s beliefs is…

death. When I was part of my evangelism team, I remember they would always tell me to emphasise that those who do not believe will burn in hell and suffer for all eternity but those who accept the gift and the spirit of God will live forever in happiness. This is exactly what NT Wright in his book Hope tries to dismantle. The idea of the life after death, is it really as cut and dry as it may seem? Or is this just what we have been conditioned to believe because of the lack of clarity in the…

Lay theologian, C.S. Lewis, projects his own conception of Heaven and Hell most prominently in his work, The Great Divorce. Here, he depicts Hell as being a place that is not necessarily eternal, but a place where one chooses to be and has the option to leave. Lewis states, “They lead you to expect red fire and devils and all sorts of interesting people sizzling on grids… but when you get there it’s just like any other town” (53). Hell is not this fiery furnace that society often depicts, thus…

Death is when one 's life ends, and dying is the process by which one dies. Intellectually one knows that the day will come when they will die. Most of the time they are too reluctant to think on their own death the the knowledge of their death does not touch their hearts. Death is when one 's body cesses to connect with the mind. In the text boon, Theology of Death, Douglas Davies states, in a scientific perspective, death is a natural process in life, but with theological judgement death is…

It is these three Christian themes of love towards God, free will, and suffering that are significantly present in Dante’s Purgatorio. Dante Aligheieri was an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led…

each person holds himself or herself to, or the reputation they want to hold, not only in the eyes of those around them, but in their own eyes as well. If someone believes in God, then I believe they’ll fear the idea of Hell, not just Hell itself, but ending…

and souls who, in presence of a messenger of Heaven, became terrified and shocked, like frogs. Another time, he relates the action of Malebranche demons with the story of frogs. “Like squatting frogs along the ditch’s edge, with just their muzzles sticking out of water, their legs and all the rest concealed below” (Inferno, 22.25-27). Recall, Dante the pilgrim observes sinners in a pitch filled with boiling tar guarded by demons when the two poets are passing. One author states the allegory that…