One fiction story is
told in the Bible. The protagonist is Nathan. The antagonist is David.
The story starts off
with Nathan speaking. "There were two men in a certain town, one rich and
the other poor. The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, but
the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised
it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from
his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.” (Can’t you
feel the love and see the kids playing with the lamb?)
"Now a traveler
came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own
sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him.
Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for
the one who had come to him."
(Your feeling probably have switched to hatred for the rich man.)
(Your feeling probably have switched to hatred for the rich man.)
David burned with
anger against the man and said to Nathan, "As surely as the LORD
lives, the man who did this deserves to die! He must pay for that lamb four times over, because
he did such a thing and had no pity."
Here is where the plot
changes. Nathan says to David, “YOU ARE THE MAN!”
What a revelation. Can
you see the face of David dropping from anger to confusion to fear? David is
busted. His secret affair and murder is revealed through a fiction story.
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