... house. The photography is powerful as it shows her rapidly reaching for rocks then violently throwing them at the house. Jenny finally falls to the ground in exhaustion and the scene closes with Forrest Gump philosophically saying, "Sometimes there just aren ... man made this special season a time of healing rather than a time of hurt. Growing up in the early 1950s, Robert Lewis always wished his family was like other kids' families. Both his parents were driven, ambitious people who worked hard and left the ...
... it is allowed to lie dormant for a long time and fester like an infected wound. In his book, The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis tells the story of a visitor who is permitted to be a temporary guest in hell. At one point, the visitor accompanies a busload ... box of choklits,” but there is another line, says McHenry, worth noting. “This particular scene has one of the central characters, Jenny, returning to her old home after her father has died. The old farm house is dilapidated and abandoned. As she reflects ...
... -Broadway. Written by Honor Moore, it is the moving account of the last six months of her mother's life. Jenny Moore was no ordinary human being. She was the wife of the Episcopal Bishop of New York and the mother of ... other people, we will get the whole network of relationship, but if we have lived only for ourselves, this is what we get and nothing more." Lewis realized why solitary confinement is such a dreaded punishment. It denies a basic need of ours as social creatures. This is the consequence of a life ...
... phrase, "Slow to anger." There is a scene I have never forgotten in the movie Forrest Gump. Forrest and Jenny came upon the house in which Jenny had been raised. The house is falling down. It holds many broken promises and painful memories for her. She ... and traditions die a hard death. Just because you join a church does not mean you get your pilot wings overnight. As C. S. Lewis once wrote, "Everybody believes forgiveness is the right thing to do--until they have to do it." Being a doer of the word is ...
