Continuation of Theme into Summary: The Shack

      As I talked about in the theme of this book, decisions are key in your life. Whether they be the everyday ones that come with more and more ease each day or the big ones that you only need to makes once or a few times in your life that could drastically alter your life.
      The summary of this book The Shack is that once the main character, Mack's, daughter gets kidnapped and presumably dead, he goes into a deep depression is which he calls the "Great Sadness". This draws him further from his wife and his other children. Until one day he receives a letter in the mail on a frigid-icy-cold day. In this letter it contains a friendly invitation to go to the shack in which his daughter had been kidnapped. he believes that this is just some kind of cruel joke being played on him. He thinks long, hard, and painfully. He finally decides that this letter could have only been written by God, so he decides to go. Although he couldn't understand why God would try to bring up the two most painful things in his life, he was now determined to figure out what was the meaning of this mysterious letter. "While Mack's relationship with God is wide..." (Young 11)
          Once he gets there he meets and befriends several strange character that all represent some sort of Godly or spiritual figure, the most important being Papa who is the representation of Jesus. After staying there for awhile he and these characters get along well and talk about everything, including what happened with his daughter. After all of the time spent with these "people" he starts to understand what has happened and become more at peace with the kidnapping of his daughter. He forgives everything that has happened including the person that took his daughter. "Somehow it seemed easier to live with God when I thought of him as the demanding taskmaster, or even to cope with the loneliness of The Great Sadness" (Young 196).