“But at last he knew that he was going to die. He had just strength to fly up to the Prince’s shoulder once more. ‘Good-bye, dear Prince!’ he murmured, ‘will you let me kiss your hand?’
‘I am glad that you are going to Egypt at last, little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you have stayed too long here… ” (Wilde, 13)

Although, seemingly very different, the two stories, “The Home-Coming,” by Tagore and “The Happy Prince,” by Wilde, have significant similarities. One of the themes in “The Home-Coming,” is also centered around redemption. The story is about a boy, Phatik, who is a very mischievous teen that is made to live with his uncle because is mother can no longer stand him for the burden he has become. As the story unfolds, he realizes that he misses his home, along with his mother, who he initially did not value. As he begs for the holidays to come, being the only way he will see his mother, he falls deathly ill. On his death bed, his mother reaches him just in time to realize that she loves her son and that she should’ve been a better mother to him. She tells him she loves him, something she had never done before, liberating the boy from his burden of feeling unloved by his mother, moments before death.
Much like “The Happy Prince,” we find this dark sense of redemption that is only found by the ultimate sacrifice, death. Our character are able to realize their mistakes and transform for the better. In “The Home-Coming,” we see Phatik transform from a mischievous boy into a docile one. He falls deathly ill, but is redeem at death. In both stories, we are given relief and hope by the end, when Phatik reaches “the holidays,” and when Swallow and the Prince reach Paradise. All our characters are able to find redemption at the ultimate cost. As you can see, both stories are quite similar. Their similarities include, but are not limited to, the factor of love, and redemption by death, and a sense of hope.