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Paul Young's Use Of Religious Themes In 'The Shack'

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Wm. Paul Young was born May 11, 1955 and raised by parents from a stone-age tribe in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He endured great loss as he was growing up but now savors life with his family in the Pacific Northwest. He wrote The Shack as a Christmas gift and was not intentionally going to be published. In his fiction-based book “The Shack” (published May 2007), William Young justifies that sometimes people have to go through an inner war with them and challenge their ideology because what they assume may not be true. “The Shack” uses religious themes and it can be concluded that this story is mostly intended for religious young adults who believe in and cherish the lord. “The Shack” purely focuses on Mackenzie Allen Phillips, a run …show more content…

His belief in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit shapes him into the kind of guy someone would want to be like. “The Shack” first starts over Labor Day weekend in Oregon with Mack talking to his daughter, she begged Mack to tell her favorite story,the legend of the beautiful Indian maid who killed herself for her people and the man she loved. It sparked questions and reflections in Missy’s mind. She wanted to know why God asked his own children to die. Mack said that they weren’t forced to die, but did so for their love of their people. Missy asked if God was ever going to ask her to die for her people too. Later when Mack was working on a fire, he realized that Missy was no longer at the table where she had been sitting, creating a picture of the Indian Princess. When the police were called in they found evidence of a struggle between Missy and her abductor and a witness who saw a man driving away from the campsite with her. They also found a ladybug pin near the crime scene that led to a suspicion that a serial killer known as the The Lady Bug Killer had abducted Missy. The ladybug was

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