The Loft: Summary And Analysis

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The gospel has a wide variety of messages throughout the text, while a specific example can be related to marriage. In the book of Genesis, chapter 2, verse 24, it said, “Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh,” (Bible). This verse is very strong when it comes to marriage as it shows how two individuals become one, but yet still retain their own uniqueness as an individual. “We may not worship stone and wooden images, but we do commit idolatry every time …show more content…

Vincent Stevens, the architect of the building and a friend to all the other men, fuels the idea of having the loft. Vincent then starts giving each individual the right to discreetly do whatever they would like up in the loft, even meeting with their mistresses. Five keys were made and given to the five men, allowing them access whenever they please. All the men are married, and some of them have children. These men are committing adultery, and is actually illegal. After the investment seemed to be going very well, the body of a dead woman is found in the bed of the Loft. The men begin to suspect each other of the crime, because they are the only ones who have the key to the premise. With time running against them, the men begin to turn against each other and they find out that they were all making faults during their time spent in the Loft. Eventually, the men become violent and it is found that Luke, one of friends, secretly taped much of the activities during the time they had the loft. In the tapes they find out that more crime was committed than they thought. The friends consistently interrogated each other and become extremely separated, eventually becoming strangers and victims of gruesome