Someone who is prodigal is given to wasteful luxury or extravagance. This profuse behavior is seen in "The Prodigal Son", by James Weldon Johnson and "De Progicul Son", by John Henry Faulk, which is the view from an African American perception. The two literary works make known the importance of learning a lesson the hard way. People often do not understand why they should listen to their parents or guardian until the lesson is learned. .
In the Prodigal Son it states that the man didn't have a name, but his name is God Almighty, and that he had two sons, neither of which had a name. In this poem these two young men are never called by a name, only referred to as young man or younger son. The younger son decided it was time to leave his fathers' house, therefore, he took his part of his father's goods. He left home and ended up in Babylon. He forgot about Jesus and turned more so to the streets. He brought new clothes, went to drinking dens, gambling dens, and met with the women of Babylon. After he was stripped of everything he had, he was left to the streets of Babylon. Following this he began to realize that his father's house was a house of many mansions, that every servant had bread to eat and place to sleep. He decided it was time to go back home to his father. When he finally choose to make the journey home, his father saw him coming and ran to greet him. He draped him in clean clothes and gold and gave him a party so they, the father, both sons, and their neighbors, could all feast. "Today you've got the strength of a bull in your neck and the strength of a bear in your arms, .".
In De Progicul Son it states the man was called a suhtun man. "A suhtun man was a special man. Therefore he mus' of been writin' about de Lawd. The suhtun man had two sons, and the only two the lord ever had was Adam and Jesus." Jesus was the older son and didn't have a problem working for his father, nor did he ever complain.
