Her story The Land of Far-Beyond is a Christian parable along the lines of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with modern children as the central characters.

However, if one considers the story historically accurate, happening in Jesus ' life apart from the similar incidents recorded in the other gospels, the question of the authenticity of the parable receives a different answer ... John Nolland, following Wilckens ' ideas, writes: ' There can hardly be a prior form of the episode not containing the present parable, since this would leave the Pharisee's concerns of v 39 with no adequate response '.

Martin's distant-future science fiction parable of Christianity, the 1979 short story The Way of Cross and Dragon.

As the story reached those who were unaware of the oppression of the Samaritans, this aspect of the parable became less and less discernible: fewer and fewer people ever heard of them in any context other than as a description.

" William C. Placher points out that such debate misinterprets the biblical genre of a parable, which illustrates a moral rather than a historical point: on reading the story, " we are not inclined to check the story against the police blotter for the Jerusalem-Jericho highway patrol.

" The moral of the story would still hold if the parable originally followed the priest-Levite-Israelite sequence of contemporary Jewish stories, as Halévy suggested.

A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or ( sometimes ) a normative principle.

However, unlike the apologue, the parable is a realistic story that seems inherently probable and takes place in a familiar setting of life.

* Narrative sermons-which tell a story, often a parable, or a series of stories, to make a moral point.

The authors of the article suggest that the story continues to be misrepresented in social psychology textbooks because it functions as a parable and serves as a dramatic example for students.

A parable of subjective idealism can be found in Jorge Luis Borges ' short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, which specifically mentions Berkeley.

Similarly, in the 20th century, calling a parable " an earthly story with a heavenly meaning ", William Barclay states that the parables of Jesus use familiar examples to lead men's minds towards heavenly concepts.

Oblique adaptations include that by the Reverend Robert Wilkins, who told the story of this parable in the song " Prodigal Son ", which is probably best known as a cover version by the Rolling Stones on their 1968 album Beggar's Banquet.

British Reggae band Steel Pulse recorded a song titled " Prodigal Son " on their debut album Handsworth Revolution, recreating the Biblical story as a Rastafarian parable.

An earlier work with similarities to the parable is Le retour de l ' enfant prodigue ( The Return of the Prodigal Son ), a short story by André Gide.

The term is also found in various writing styles such as parable, beatitude, prayer, miracle story and aphorism.

The story is used as a gnostic parable of the soul's pre-existence and return from its terrestrial sojourn ".

In its lack of explicit moralism it is much closer to the novel than to the parable: " the story is the first thing, the moral the second, and the latter is never suffered to interfere with the former.

On the other hand, despite the presence of the Emerald City, Oz is an agrarian country, similar to Kansas ; the story has been interpreted as a populist parable, and certainly contains many populist themes.

Warren Ellis ' 1995 Starjammers limited series described the story of the Shi ' ar deities Sharra and K ' ythri as a parable which guides the Shi ' ar expansionist philosophy to other worlds:

* One interpretation of the story is as a parable about unrequited love.

A few scholars have suggested that the novel hides in its story a parable critical of the military dictatorship, particularly through the portrayal of a repressive but ineffectual assistant police commissioner, Pedrito Gordo.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.

It is the growing contradiction between individualism and public service in the mystery story which creates this fatal dilemma.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.

The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.