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Summary of The Shack
Summary of The Shack
The story begins with Mack getting a letter in the mail from Papa, perceived as God, by Nan.
The letter encloses a message that tells Mack to meet God at the shack next weekend. Next
Mack has a dream, for the a reader a flashback to introduce information, four years back the
reader finds out Missy, who is the daughter of Mackenzie or nicknamed Mack is kidnapped and
brutally murdered during a family vacation. This all started when Mack wanted to take the kids
for a camping trip on the Labor Day weekend before they go to school. During the camping trip
Missy asks her father to tell her the story of the princess and the Multnomah Indians. She
enjoyed listening to the story from her Father. This was the only long time Mack got to spend
with Missy before she was kidnapped. Josh and Kate go canoeing and their canoe flips over.
While Mack is rushing to save them he leaves Missy alone coloring. While he is saving them
from drowning, Missy is kidnapped and taken away. Mack comes back to find Missy but she is
not there anymore. In a panic he tells everyone, including the police and his campsite
neighbors. At this point all Mack finds out from the police is that there was a green military truck
that left the parking lot that seemed to look like there was a little girl inside. After Mack comes
back to her table where she was seen last they notice a lady bug pin, and later find out that it is
the "Little Lady Killer" who kidnapped Missy and four other girls and they have not found him.
Mack goes back home to tell Nan about what happened. Mack refers to this incident as "The
Great Sadness".