Sentences with phrase «lost elder brother»

All those decades, he'd searched doggedly for his long - lost elder brother, Drystan, who, in his mind, had vanished when they were children, way back in the late 1960s.

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Glen Elder, the sociologist at the University of North Carolina, who's done field work in Baltimore, said, «At a lower level of skill, if you lose a job and don't have fathers or brothers with jobs — if you don't have a good social network — you get drawn back into the street.

That is certainly true of this story, which explicitly incorporates the Prodigal Son parable on several levels, not only the relation of the fathers to their lost sons, but Kumalo as an elder brother who hates his younger brother, John, a prodigal.

His parables reveal a close and sympathetic observation of everyday life: the farmer's sowing and reaping, the shepherd and his flock, the house built on the rock, the leaven in the dough, the lost coin and the lost sheep, the father's joy in the return of a wayward son and the elder brother's peevish jealousy, the mother forgetting her agony for joy that a man has been born into the world, the workers standing idle in the marketplace because no one has hired them, and many other instances.

But as the Drake legacy goes, suddenly his simple life is ruffled up by the return of his elder brother, Sam, whom he thought had lost while breaking out of a prison, long ago in Panama.