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The Story of The Prodigal Son

The story is about a rich man with two sons. The younger son asks for his inheritance and leaves home, wasting his money. He becomes poor and takes a job feeding pigs. Realizing his father's servants live better, he decides to return home and ask to be a servant. When his father sees him returning, he embraces him and throws a celebration for his return. The elder son is unhappy with the celebration. The father explains to the elder son that they must celebrate the return of the lost son.

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The Story of The Prodigal Son

The story is about a rich man with two sons. The younger son asks for his inheritance and leaves home, wasting his money. He becomes poor and takes a job feeding pigs. Realizing his father's servants live better, he decides to return home and ask to be a servant. When his father sees him returning, he embraces him and throws a celebration for his return. The elder son is unhappy with the celebration. The father explains to the elder son that they must celebrate the return of the lost son.

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THE STORY OF THE

PRODIGAL SON

Submitted By:

EMMANUEL JOHN MATALANG CADDALI


Grade V – Matiyaga
Tuguegarao West Central School
The Story of the Prodigal Son

There was a very rich person. He had two sons. The first son was
hard working. He always obeyed his father. He was very good and
nice person. But the second son was totally different from the first
son. He was lazy. He did not work in his father’s field. He was
disobedient to his father. He wanted to lead a gay and free life.

One day, the younger son said to his father. “Father, give me my
share of property." The father felt very sad. He divided the
property. The second son took his share of property. He left home
with his share. He went to a distant land. There he made a lot of
friends. He spent his property lavishly on his friends, foods and
drinks. He had many bad habits too. He wasted all the money.
Soon he was left with no money. His friends saw this. They all
deserted him one by one.

At that time, there was a famine in that land. He could not get any
job. None of his friends gave him food or money. He was forced to
take up a very mean job. His job was to feed the pigs. Very often
he ate the food kept for the pigs. He was very sad about his present
conditions. He soon began to think of his father and his brother. He
said to himself, “In my father’s house, even the servants have
enough food. They get good shelter too. But here, I am struggling
for food and shelter. I will go back to my father. I will beg him to
take me as his servant."

So decided, the prodigal son set out for his father’s house. In the
meantime, his father was always thinking of his second son. He
would sit near the windows. He would look out at the road,
expecting his son to return home.

One day his father saw his son coming at a distance. He ran out of
his house in great joy. He met his son on the way. His son knelt
down. He said, “Father, I am not fit to be your son. Take me as
your servant."

His father lifted him lovingly. He embraced him. He turned to his


servants. He said, “Bring the best robe. Put it on my son. Put a ring
on his fingers and shoes on his feet. Kill the fatted calf. Prepare a
feast. Let us eat and enjoy. My son was lost. Now he is found."

The elder son was returning from his work. He heard the sound of
the music and dancing from his house. He asked one of his
servants about it. His servant told him, “Your brother has come.
Your father is rejoicing at his return. A fatted calf has been killed
to prepare for a delicious feast and the celebration."

The first son was angry. He refused to enter his house. The father
came out. He begged his elder son to come in for rejoicing. The
elder son said, “I have obeyed you all these years. I have done all
your works. But you never gave me even a kid to enjoy with my
friends. This son wasted all your money and property. And you
order a fatted calf for him!"

His father replied, “My dear son, you are always with me. All my
property is yours. Your younger brother was dead. Now he is alive.
He was lost. Now he is found. Therefore, should we not rejoice?"

The elder son understood the love behind the words of his father.
He forgot everything about his younger brother. He decided to take
part in the celebration. He was happy.
Plot
 Exposition - introduction; characters, setting and conflict
(problem) are introduced
There was a very rich person in the land. The rich father
had two sons. The first son is very nice, obedient to the
father and a hard worker. While the second son is easy go
lucky person. He always disobeys his father and wanted to
live in extravagant life.

 Rising Action- events that occur as result of central


conflict
The second son asked his father to give him his share. The
father agreed. The second son left home and spent all his
money to vices until nothing was left to him.

 Climax- highest point of interest or suspense of a story


The second son became very poor and was forced to take
up a very mean work in the pigs’ farm to feed himself. He
even ate often the food kept for the pigs.

 Falling Action - tension eases; events show the results of


how the main character begins to resolve the conflict
Although the second son (prodigal son) he had it all, he
wanted another setting--the world. He wanted freedom to
see the world and all that it had to offer.

After wasting all that his father had given him, the Prodigal
Son realizes that the world has nothing to offer but
heartache and disappointment. The Prodigal Son returns
home to a setting which has everything he needs.

 Resolution- loose ends are tied up; the conflict is solved


The father and the first son accepted the second son even
he is a sinner. They accepted him because what they had
for the second son is an unconditional love. They forgave
him and accepted him despite of his shortcomings and
waywardness.

The two settings are compared--the father's house and the


world.

No doubt, he will wander no more. He will most likely be


grateful for all that he has in his father's setting.

Truly, the setting in The Prodigal Son parable is a


representation of God who is our father and his kingdom
which is our eternal home.

Theme or Moral Lesson


The theme is the central, general message, the main idea, the
controlling topic about life or people the author wants to get across
through a literary work. To discover the theme of a story, think
big. What big message is the author trying to say about the world
in which we live? What is this story telling me about how life
works, or how people behave?
 The misuse of our freedom will have no better results than
it did with the prodigal son's misuse of his freedom, and
God trusts that we will learn our lesson and come back to
him.

Mood
Mood is the feeling that the author tries to convey throughout the
story. The atmosphere or emotional condition created by the piece,
within the setting. Does the author want the reader to be frightened
or sad, or does the story make the reader laugh and think happy
thoughts?
To figure out mood, examine how you feel while reading the story.
Often mood is conveyed by the story’s setting.
 The mood of the story is sad in the middle of the story
when the younger son struggled when he no longer have
money to spend and food to eat.
 Happy when the younger son returned home to his Father
and Elder brother

Character
The person, animals, and things participating in a story
 Father
 First son
 Second son
 Servant

Setting
Setting is the “where and when” of a story. It is the time and place
during which the story takes place.
 In The Prodigal Son parable, the setting of the father's rich
homeland is a representation of the kingdom of God.
Naturally, God's kingdom would be a rich setting;
 The Prodigal Son represents wayward children, those who
have strayed away from God and his kingdom

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