The Ungrateful Son

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  "summary": "\"The Ungrateful Son\" is a short fable by Brothers Grimm in which a man hides a roasted chicken from his elderly father rather than share his meal. The moment he reaches for it again, the chicken transforms into a duck — one that clamps itself to his face and refuses to leave. Friends cannot remove it, and the son must feed it daily or suffer its claws. Only when he confronts the cause of his suffering and seeks his father's forgiveness does the strange punishment lift.",
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    "When somebody tried to remove the duck, the duck viciously clung on. Nobody was allowed to touch her and the ungrateful son had to feed her everyday otherwise she would have torn him to pieces. All of his friends tried to free him from the animal, but nothing worked!",
    "As soon as somebody tried to remove the duck, the duck would press her nails into the son’s flesh, who would then scream out in pain: ‘Never mind! It hurts too much!’ It took a long time before the man started to think about the cause of this disaster. And when he finally understood what he did wrong, it took a long time for him to come to terms with it.",
    "A while later, they again sat by the front door with a roasted chicken that they were planning to eat. Again he saw his old father walk up to them. When he came close, the son got up and walked towards him. The father startled and asked: ‘My son, why do you have that ugly duck on your face? Remove it!’",
    "‘Unfortunately’, said the son. “I can not and nobody can.’ And he fell to his fathers feet, confessed his greed and asked for forgiveness. ‘I forgive you, my son’, said the father. And in that instant the duck turned into the roasted chicken.",
    "Together they ate the meal. ‘It tastes delicious!’, said the old man. ‘These chickens are roasted well.’ ‘And it tastes good to me too, because you forgave me’, the son answered.",
    "Brothers Grimm were Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, nineteenth-century German scholars celebrated for collecting and publishing some of the world's most enduring folk and fairy tales. \"The Ungrateful Son\" is one of their lesser-known moral fables, notable for its darkly comic punishment — a living duck fused to a man's face — that carries a pointed lesson about greed and filial respect."
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    "As soon as somebody tried to remove the duck, the duck would press her nails into the son's flesh, who would then scream out in pain: 'Never mind! It hurts too much!' It took a long time before the man started to think about the cause of this disaster. And when he finally understood what he did wrong, it took a long time for him to come to terms with it.",
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