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Book Summary: The Shack By William P. Young
The Shack.
By William P. Young

The screaming Dramatic Situation from this book is this: Great story teller dad Mackenzie Allen Phillips has his littlest daughter Missy taken from him by “The Lady Killer” the kidnappers MO (59), and is then accompanied by “The Great Sadness” due to it all (25), which was only overcome by major events through which God Himself in the views of the Trinity make themselves present to him though not through a un-original dream-sense but an adventurous amount of deep breathtaking conversations and experiences in a heaven like world still reflecting his own at his long awaiting homeland. Having his youngest daughter Missy Allen Phillips take from him leads to the undoing of his utmost and from then on growing hate
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Seeing the whole picture is key here in this book, though on the other hand, it isn’t the theme of the book exactly. Despite what many others may often believe, the theme of the book goes much deeper into what we can comprehend. It’s more throughout the purpose of coming back to God not only in the midst of our, as I mention it again, “Great Sadness”, but also in our joyful times as well. We need both in order to have Him all the time in our lives. So all in all it’s that when you are going through something joyous or depressing of nature, you must let God in as shown …show more content…
Throughout the book Mackenzie Allen Phillips continuously questions the three women appearing as the Trinity to as why they allowed this tragic moment in time to happen in and amongst they’re knowing of it. At times Mack would begin to feel at ease again from time to time, yet not ever fully until he see’s his daughter one last time through a waterfall in a cave with “Da Judge” or otherwise known as Sophia (171). Jesus talks about why the judge’s name is Sophia, as he walks with Mack into his next heart throbbing environment. She is shown through proverbs as “a women calling out in the streets, trying to find someone who will listen to her?” (171). She ends up being the one to change Mack’s thinking through what we later find out was God’s idea, “The Waterfall Scene With Missy”. Although Sophia wasn’t part of the “Trinity” she was the one I believe changed Mack the most when it came to his conflicts with God and the rest of the Trinity. Only by allowing him to try and judge God himself, which as shown in the pages of this book, isn’t as one might expect. Conflicts arise, and are fixed through countless efforts of pain and suffering due to the constant

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