In The Shack by Wm. Paul Young, there are many descriptions throughtout the passage. One description in particular stood out to me. It says, " He had gratefully accepted Officer Dalton's offer to take his children down to a local diner for some food, and now, sitting down on the edge of the bed, he was swept helplessly away in the unrelenting and merciless grip of growing despair, slowly rocking back and forth. Soul-shredding sobs and groans clawed at the surface from the core of his being."
I especially enjoy the last sentence in this phrase because it gives a great description of what is happening. You can hear the "soul-shredding sobs," and you can feel how the "groans clawed at the surface." You can feel the despair Mackenzie (Mack) feels during this terrible expiernce, and how this is a tremendous event in his life, just based on the descriptions used.
The author uses words like, "unrelenting" and "merciless" to descrbe the feelings aswell. These words provide a clear desription to the reader aswell as gives the reader an oppurtinity to feel the expierence the character in the book is going through. This is a great way to endulge the reader into wanting to read more.
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