Short Story Comparison

Relationships Relationships we have with others can positively or negatively affect our lives forever. In “A Rupee Earned” and “To Everything There Is a Season”, the protagonists are positively influenced by a family member, maturing them and having a positive effect on their lives. In “A Rupee Earned”, the father teaches the son how to make his own money and be less dependent of others. In “To Everything There Is a Season”, the boy’s family tells him that Santa Claus does not exist, helping him mature. First, in the fable “A Rupee Earned” by I.F. Bultakin, the relationship between the father and the son positively affected the son’s life because the father helps his son realize that money he would work for would be worth a lot more than someone else’s. Every day, the son pretended to go make money while really, we would be taking rupees from his mother. The son did this because he was lazy and wanted his father’s fortune. The father never believed the son made the money, until the final day, when the father threw the rupee into the fire, and the son became very upset. He became upset because the son thought he had worked hard for that rupee, and throwing it away meant throwing away all of his hard work. This will better the son’s life because he now knows that although he has his father’s fortune, “another person’s money cannot help you” (Bulatkin 278). This will help motivate the son to start working for his money instead of being lazy since he does not want to do to his father what his father had done to him. Once the son makes his own money, he will be satisfied because he will always have some, but his father’s money will eventually run out. Therefore, the relationship between the father and his son will positively affect the son’s life forever because he knows now how to earn his own money and be more responsible. Second, in “To Everything There Is a Season”, the relationship between the boy and his family is also positive because the narrator grows up

Cited: Bulatkin, I.F. “A Rupee Earned.” Sightlines 10. Toronto : Prentice Hall, Canada, 2000. 275-278. Print. MacLeod, Alistair. “To Everything There is a Season.” Sightlines 10. Toronto : Prentice Hall, Canada, 2000. 300-305. Print.