English 6 Lesson 35

I think that there are more differences than similarities in the story of the Prodigal Son in the bible and the last few chapters of Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates. In the last few chapters of Hans Brinker the son of a surgeon thought he had killed someone with the wrong dosage of medicine and ran away, thinking his father would hate him. the son told Hans’s father to contact his father later in the week, but the father got hit on the head and lost his memory. Ten years later a surgeon fixes his memory and it turns out that surgeon is his father. The father and son reunite and are happy. In the prodigal son the son takes his inheritance early and wastes it all on partying, then a famine strikes and he has to work for pig slop. Then he decides to go work for his father instead of a random person. when he returns the the father throws a party for him, despite his running away. The son in Hans Brinker ran away because he thought his father would hate him, as opposed to hating his father like the Prodigal. the Hans Brinker son came back because his father loved him and the Prodigal came back because he was desperate. that’s what I thought of the two stories and how they are different.