The title of the popular book Cross
roads by Wm. Paul Young suggests what you are going to find
in the story. Antony Spencer is a powerful, wealthy man, arrogant,
self centered, selfish and sometimes cruel – he is everything a
person should not be. He suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and falls in a
coma in the hospital. While in this condition, Antony awakens to find
that he is in a different world. While being awaken in a completely
different world, he finds that he is capable to interact with people
from both worlds.
He goes from one to another world,
communicating with each world as he exists in both places. In the new
world, Antony meets new people who would have never met before. He
interacts with their souls, their hearts, their minds. He is able to
speak with them and to move from one person to another. Along his way
he meets a boy with Downs Syndrome and his sister who suffers from
her own ailment. He meets their family and friends and finds that he
really has emotions. While in the other world, Antony meets a
representative of God. He meets him, personally and close. He is
forced to take a hard and deep look of himself and discovers that he
does not really like what he sees. While cleaning the house, he is
offered a second chance by God: he can return back and heal one
person: not on his own, but with God's help. He feels that by healing
himself, he can help other people, making the wrong right as well as
making their lives better.
This
trip of self discovery, of looking at himself is tempting and
intriguing while giving the reader an opportunity to follow and to
look at himself at the same time. The readers may discover things
about themselves they will not be proud of. Or they may find
themselves to be like the people with whom they live or work. This
popular book “Cross roads” takes
us on a journey of self discovery. Are we people who care too much
about ourselves than for the
others? While the story may be weak, the characters are still
strong. This popular book “Cross roads” is
an interesting book, although it is predictable in some parts.
