Answer: C. An adolescent boy loses his apprentice job as a carpenter because he chooses to go swimming instead of working.
A parable is a short story that is meant to be didactic, or educational. It can be written in prose or verse and it illustrates a moral lesson or principle. It is different from a fable because fables tend to employ animals, plants or foces of nature as characters, while parables tend to use humans. <em>The Bible</em> provides several famous examples of parables.
