Throughout its plot, the parable also demonstrates various other themes including forgiveness, parental love, anger, and jealousy. ... In the other hand, despite the rather insulting request, the father's reaction of granting the younger son his part of the inheritance seems to represent parental selfless love. ... As it is demonstrated in this essay, the structure, the language, the style, and the narrative events of "The Parable of the Lost Son" properly exemplify a text that is aimed to a general audience and emphasizes on a teaching that criticizes succumbing to the feeling...

• Word Count: 883
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The maintenance of conservative community cohesion and a stable family life were regarded as desirable goals, one "more important than love-. ... She is selfless and stoical, loving her limited scoop accepting her family's intrinsic imperfections. Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ... Ironically when Kate is struck with cancer, Ellen assumes all the domestic duties that her mother loved, as George...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The maintenance of conservative community cohesion and a stable family life were regarded as desirable goals, one "more important than love-. ... She is selfless and stoical, loving her limited scoop accepting her family's intrinsic imperfections. Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ... Ironically when Kate is struck with cancer, Ellen assumes all the domestic duties that her mother loved, as George...

• Word Count: 844
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since the cradle of civilization, mothers have been called upon to selflessly care for their children and their families, often putting themselves last. ... The fact that Dee treats the very people who sacrificed what they did not have to spare in order to give her the college education she now belittles them with further illustrates how a mother's love and sacrifice can go so ignored. ... For their sacrifice, their love and their teachings, mothers and the bonds they create with their children are sacred. ...

• Word Count: 1588
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How I love and them and miss them!... We had always been poor, but we'd have love and laughter and warmth to share with each other. ... This forced her to make a selfless decision to marry a white, abusive man that would hopefully provide her and her family with financial comfort. ...

• Word Count: 1391
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate