Parable

One day, a dog stayed up all night to protect the master’s property. Then suddenly a burglar came and tried to steal the master’s things. The dog warned it’s owner of the burglar and woke him up. But instead of getting a reward, the dog got a beating for waking the master up. The next day the same burglar came back however the dog didn’t bark because he didn’t want a beating. In the morning the dog and the owner woke up and saw that things were stolen. The owner was so angry at the dog, he gave the dog a beating.

This is a parable because it tells something about life and has mostly human characters. We can infer that the message of the story is that life is unfair because even though the dog did the thing that it was supposed to do it got a beating both times. The dog’s master is one of the main characters. This explains how my story is a parable.