St Lukes Religious Symbolism In Parable of the Prodigal Son
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St. Luke's Religious Symbolism In "The Parable of the Prodigal Son"
The symbolism in St. Luke's "The Parable of the Prodigal Son") reprinted in Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs, Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Sixth ed. [Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 2001] 445-446) implies broader meaning than just what is written. This parable has a realistic beginning without symbolism. A man has two sons: the younger son asks for all his inheritance, leaves, and wastes his inheritance on riotous living. A famine comes and he begins to want and needs things. He finds a job feeding the swine, which suggests symbolic reading...