Scream!
1. What do you notice in this work of art?
2. Why do you think people sometimes feel like screaming? Tell a story about when you screamed.
3. Choose a or b below:
a. Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti wrote, “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” What do you think he means? Is there anything that screams at you?
b. One night, Jesus’s disciples were rowing across the Sea of Galilee. Suddenly they saw Jesus walking on the water coming toward them. They screamed in terror, thinking they were seeing a ghost. Jesus said, “Take courage, it is I. Don’t be afraid” (Matthew 14:27). When he climbed into the boat, the storm died down. How might Jesus and his words give us courage in the midst of life’s storms?
4. Edvard Munch described what inspired his painting: “My friends went on—I stood there trembling with anxiety—and I felt a vast infinite scream [tear] through nature.” Draw a picture or find a digital image of people screaming. Tell what may have prompted the scream.