Perspective
The Entire book is done in second person, This can be told because they always refer to the character as Mack and not I.
Essential Conflict
The essential Conflict in this Fictional story is redemption. Mack is depressed for his loss of his daughter and wants answers for it. While he goes to the Shack to get answers he learns from God. He learns that life is to short to worry about everything. He learns about forgiveness and he learns about gods true identity. As this book is meant to Teach people about Christianity, Love, Forgiveness, relief, life. This book is considered to be a very influential book as many people look at like from a new perspective after just read it. As many reader can understand Macks pain and suffering, they also have the same questions that Mack does. example: how does god love? Papa in the book stated " his love for people is a verb not a feeling: meaning his love is a action, actions are considered more reliable than a feeling meaning u can actually see and feel the love from her.
Symbols
The two biggest symbols in this book is the lady bug and the colour red. Missy early in the book refers to the Lady bug in her bug collection and this a reference of this is made again when the serial killer leaves his signature behind. The colour red is shown a lot to because Missy's favourite colour was red, She wore red before she died , the last piece of memory left of her is her blood stain on the floor in the shack which is also red, also after she got kidnapped they found a red crayon that belong to her which was her favourite colour.
The shack is also a symbol because it is a place where people go when they are in hard times and when Macks in a hard time he goes to the shack to resolve him problems.
Sarayu's bottle of tears is also another symbol because she states that the bottel collects tears from a persons grief, pain, and also happiness. Then shows that these tears when pored out create flowers which allows happiness to expand.
The shack is also a symbol because it is a place where people go when they are in hard times and when Macks in a hard time he goes to the shack to resolve him problems.
Sarayu's bottle of tears is also another symbol because she states that the bottel collects tears from a persons grief, pain, and also happiness. Then shows that these tears when pored out create flowers which allows happiness to expand.
Theme
Love because you commonly can see the love shown between father and daughter, and God and humans. Love is expressed in many ways and it all plays out to be the same.
Self Vs Supernatural : Mack faces the supernatural which is god .
Forgiveness is also another theme because Mack learns that forgiveness is not that u will forget or not feel the pain of another persons actions, its that you are not going to take it against them this does not mean that they still like them.
Self Vs Supernatural : Mack faces the supernatural which is god .
Forgiveness is also another theme because Mack learns that forgiveness is not that u will forget or not feel the pain of another persons actions, its that you are not going to take it against them this does not mean that they still like them.