Prodigal Son/ Reasonable Use Of The Unreasonable

The “Prodigal Son”, can be paralleled to Flannery O’Connor’s “A Reasonable use of the Unreasonable,” because of the communal use of exaggeration to shock a secular culture into hearing and comprehending Christian ideas and beliefs. In both of these stories exaggeration is used in a nearly grotesque manner to stress important religious principles. Although the circumstances observed are clearly unreasonable, reasonableness becomes apparent when analyzed on the Divine level.

The “Prodigal Son” is a story of two brothers who are given money by their fath

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