The+Last+Supper

__**The Last Supper Summary:**__Jesus sat down with his twelve disciples to have one last meal before going to the cross to be crucified. Of the twelve he said that one of them would soon betray him. This turned out to be the apostle named Judas. "This is my body, given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." He then took the wine and shared the cup with them saying, "This wine is the token of God's new covenant to save you--an agreement sealed with the blood I will pour out for you. I will not drink wine again until the day I drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom." They then sang a hymm.

Found in the Bible: Matthew 26:20-29; Mark 14:17-25; Luke 22:14-23

__**Place in Literature:**__ In The Chronicles of Narnia the novel, Edmund (like Judas) goes against his king, Aslan (like God). He chooses to side with the White Witch. Aslan the lion sacrifices his pride and life when he goes to the White Witch's camp and allows them to shave off his mane and kill him. Then towards the end he comes back to life and passes on his crown to the four children who will take his place as rulers of Narnia.

__**Exploration in Specific Text: The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy**__ **By Rachel Cusk. An allusion from the book:**

“I look at this painting for a long time,” she writes. “I try to understand it.” (Those unadorned declarative sentences bode well.) She looks with palpable intensity, notes the distinction between the figures in the foreground and those in the background, closer to Jesus: “The closer they are to us, the less attention they pay him,” she notes. The two disciples closest to us “possess a great reality, the reality of the living moment, of the chunks of bread and the half-drunk glasses of wine, of the plates and crumpled tablecloth and the woman who watches their conversation instead of the baby at her breast. Perception is stronger than belief, at least for an artist, who sees such grandeur in ordinary things.” The novel is a memouir of a woman who moves to Italy from England with her children in search of a new beginning. The Last Supper was symbolic of a new beginning for humankind. Christ wanted to give his people salvation from their sins and similarly Rachel in her autobiography leaves England to give her children a better future.

__**Tipoffs:**__ ﻿Bread of Life, Sacrifice of self, Secret betrayal, Special dinner, Seeing others again in 'another place', blood/wine, Judas, 12 apostles, mount of Olives, Lady Gaga- Judas music video: In this video the dancers wear clothing and dance in scenes that are representative of the time period and place that the story of The Last Supper took place in. Lady Gaga refers to the Judas character as the bad boy she loves which resembles the betraying qualities of the disciple Judas in the Bible. media type="youtube" key="wagn8Wrmzuc" height="251" width="448" align="center" 