![]() ![]() As a youth, Mack endured abuse at the hands of his abusive alcoholic father, and then many years later Mack’s youngest daughter Missy was murdered. ![]() Willie is an old friend of Mack, the protagonist of the story. Papa has scars on her wrists from Jesus’s crucifixion, which she explains are due to the fact that all three personas of God are always together and always with humans. The narrator of 'The Shack' is a man named Willie. Cascades, and rain was now freezing on impact with the frigid ground outside the house enough reason for Mack to snuggle up with a book and a hot cider and. Instead, she encourages Mack and all human beings to recognize her love and to trust that, though she can create positive outcomes from tragedies, she does not cause tragedies to happen. Further challenging Mack’s assumptions, Papa does not use shame, guilt, or violent punishment. Papa says she has assumed the familiar name used by Mack’s wife Nan to help Mack identify her with God, but has taken on an unexpected appearance to help Mack get around some of his assumptions about religion. Initially, Papa appears as a middle-aged black woman, quick to make jokes and jabs-much to the surprise of Mack, who has always pictured God as an aloof, Gandalf-esque old white man. She fills the role of “the father” in the trinity, but challenges many of the conventions of that role. Young lives in Happy Valley, Oregon with his wife and has six children and several grandchildren. ![]() Papa also calls herself “Elousia,” which Jesus explains means “the Creator God. The Shack was one of the top-selling fiction books of 2008 and will be a major motion picture in Spring 2017. ![]() Papa is one facet of the three-part God depicted in the novel (the others being Jesus and Sarayu). ![]()
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