Brainstorming for Analysis Ideas

1. Allusion: The "Enemy" is referring to God.
2. Conflict: Patient against his mother.
3. Conflict: Screwtape and Wormwood against the "Enemy" (God).
4. Climax: Patient gets new friends (Ch. 10)
• "I was delighted to hear from Triptweeze that your patient has made some very desirable new acquaintances and that you seem to have used this event in a really promising manner." (Lewis, 49)
5. Theme: Patient starts to pray but is struggling. (Ch. 12) 
•  "He will want his prayers to be unreal, for he will dread nothing so much as effective contact with the Enemy. " (Lewis, 59)
6. Theme: Attending church (Ch. 15)
7. Foreshadowing: Screwtape warning about what might happen in the future with Wormwood's patient. 
• "Sooner or later, however, the real nature of his new friends must become clear to him, and then your tactics must depend on the patient's intelligence." (Lewis, 51)
8. Theme: Relationship with mother. How to keep Patient apart from her. (Ch. 3)
9. Theme: Virtue of Humility (CH 14)
10. Metaphor: Heaven and Hell. (Ch. 15)
• "But we want a man hag-ridden by the Future—haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth—ready to break the Enemy's commands in the present if by so doing we make him think he can attain the one or avert the other—dependent for his faith on the success or failure of schemes whose end he will not live to see. " (Lewis, 77-78)