The Shack
William P. Young
2007

Young has not overtly done much to engage the reader and draw them into reading this book. Instead, Young tells a story to partially engage the reader but does not go into serious arguments about the touchy topic that he discusses. However, his is story about Mackenzie is interesting. He pulls the reader into wanting to learn about Mackenzie. He does this by making them curious about his life. Young is able to make Mackenzie a person. He pulls Mackenzie's life into reality because he capably is able to describe how Mackenzie looks, acts, feels, he is able to make Mackenzie human, not just a fictional character that lives in a book. "Now Annie, you know I don't smoke dope-never did, and don't ever want to." This quote from the book shows how Young is not only able to describe Mackenzie but he is able to show how Mackenzie talks and what he cares about. This makes Mackenzie a human, not just a character in a book.
On the basis of Young's understanding of God and his answers to the questions that always come up when one discusses this topic, is clearly one-sided. Young talks in the story of his thoughts about God and those questions but he always has a supposedly correct and right answer for most. This shows how Young's attitude toward the writing is biased and to me I consider his points unworthy of much more discussion.