Friday, December 16th, 2016 Reading Log #7, Topic Choice #4- Literary and Element Devices12/16/2016 In The Shack, integrates literary and Element devices throughout the story to prove and further increase suspension and background knowledge. The author uses refrences to another written story of the Clastop Tribe, to show and foreshadow an important death. On page 30, the author states Matt reciting the story to his daughter, about a woman who had killed herself in order to protect the tribe, taking her own life without telling anyone, which casued happiness yet extreme saddness. The author uses this refrence in order to foreshadow the fate of Mack's daughter, as her death caused extreme sadness to the family, it also saved her two siblings experiencing danger in another part of the camp they were in. This was integrated into the story as a were legend as if not going to be real or actually take part, but it did predict the disspareance and abductance of Mack's daughter. To further prove my point, on page 33, the author makes Mack's daughter, Missy, ask her own father if she too will also have to jump off a cliff or kill herself. The story of the lady paraleels with the story of Missy and how they both end up dying but helping claer something and cause change for better. The refrence of the legend was used to portray how Missy wuld also have to jump off a cliff to protect the one's she loves and help claer macks mind of this coorrupt world, and gods existence, which can be interpreted from the refrence to the Clastop Tribe story.
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An important event in the novel, The Shack, is when Mack, the main character, looses his daughter after leaving her alone. This happens in Wallow Lake State Park in Oregon, in the past time where as Mark remembers it as The Great Sadness, before present tense. This scene is important because it sets up the conflict, as Mack needs to deal with the constant flashbacks of the grat sadness, he questions gods existance in such a world, an when it leads him to the suspsoius cabin, where his daughter was suspectedly abducted. This events help show characteristics of Mack, he is very impatient in hearing the results and getting infomration as he is afraid that somthing happened to his daughter, it helps express his anxiety as he questions his own authority as a father and the existance of god, for his carless actions. This can be proven when the author states on page 67, " The tradgedy had also increased the rift in Mack's own realtionship in God, as he felt the growing sense of seperation." This quote helps provide evidence that Mack's perspective on god and this world has changed after being face to face with one of his sadest days in his life. This scene does in fact help create the truth about life, because after the cruel death and dissapearecce of his daighter, Mack must question how god may tryuly exist in such a horrible world, as if god should've done something to prevent the situation. Macks reaction to the scene was devestation and panic, wondering what coul've happened to his daughter and what he could done. This behavior from Mack is portrayed by the author on page 51, when it states, "The image of his daughter fighting off some perverted monster was like a fist to the stomach. Almost succumbing to the sudden darkness that threatened to somther him, Mack leaned on the table to keep from passing out and throwing up." This shows how hurt and affected his is by the thought of sbduction. His wife, Nan, and his family also was overcome with sadness, as also worry for Mack who was always in distress. This event takes place in the exposition, telling the readers information on what exactly is the great sadness and how it could affect Mack and his family, ultimatly leading to the mysterious shack. I personally thought that I would also react the same way as Mack in such a horrific sutuation, knowing that a loved and dear part of your family was so swiftly abducted, due to the fact that he himself was not there to be able to stop it is truly horiffying.
In the novel, The Shack, the author, WM. Paul Young, provides an interesting selection of characters, with the story following the main male character, Mackenzie Allen Phillips, or Mack for short. Mack is an adult and his backstory was vaguely stated at the begining of the story in the foreword. From reading the first two chapters of the book, I can infer that Mack he is a man who cares for his family, he is religous, kind and is also stubbon, but he is very smart and intellegent. An example of my claim can be proven on page 12, when the author points out,"You don't realize how smart Mack is unless you happen to eavesdrop on a diolague he might have been having woth an expert." This demonstrates that behind the manly fiqure with priorities, lies a brain filled with knowledge, using technical and difficult terms that no ordinary man can understand. This may also correlate to the phrase, "Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover", as some may think that Mack is not smart, as he looks similar to any other man living in the area, but if you meet more about him, you can see that it something more interesting. Other characters in the novel include his Nan, wife, nurse, and careful mother who cares deeply for Mack and his position in life, his six children who haven't been properly introduced yet, mailman Tony and Annie who are side characters, and God or papa as Nan calls it , who seems very important in the story as the family is religious. The main character, Mack seems to be very dinamic, and changes throughout the story. As stated in the text, the author illuistrates this point when he states, "In all the time I've known him [Mack] he has been a rather gentle and kind soul, but since his stay in the hospital three years ago, he has been... well even nicer." This provides proof on how Mack is a dynamic character because it demonstrates that Mack has the will to change, how he thinks and how well he does it. This also exhibits that Mack changes throughout the story since he has changed before, on his perspective on life and other issues which can provide clues that Mack may be able to be more of a dynamic character.
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