Conflict In Prodigal Son

Fratricide is an Option (Solution to the Conflict in Prodigal Son)
Picture this. Your younger brother has the nerve to ask your dad for the families saving account, he then proceeds to waste all of it on hookers and cocaine while he flies all the way out to Colombia. Not only that, but when he musters the gall to come home and ask for forgiveness. To add even more fury to your soul your father actually forgives him. Can you believe that absolute mockery of a father? The text doesn’t even try to hide the father’s needless transaction with his son. “And he divided unto them his living”. Well, this is what happens in The Prodigal Son, from The King James version of the Bible. Needless to say the father’s decision would have put a mighty strain on the family ties of the brothers. In order to keep their home intact, their problem needs to be solved quick. Like a vulture you could pick this …show more content…
This problem is by far the biggest of all problems. This problem not only compromises the fatherhood of the dad, but jeopardizes the entire family’s unity. If the father (or head) of the family can’t lay down effective punishments that make the guilty party learn their lesson, then the children are already doomed to be dissident rebels to their parents. The father in The Prodigal Son makes the excuse of the son changing in line twenty-four “For this my son was dead, and is alive again: he was lost. And is found. And they began to be merry.” That is nothing but the father lying to himself to cover up the fact that he failed his youngest son as a parent. However, he keeps trying to please him to perhaps put him on the right track, but in doing so he strains the entire family’s relationship. The answer? Effective punishment. The father should have nipped this problem at the bud when it first started. The son never would have gotten out of control if the father shut the whole deal down when it was easily