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Luck For His Mother
932 wordsControversy between Money and Loves shown in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" The Rocking-Horse Winner is couched in the symbols of the ancient myths. The mother is poor, unsatisfied fairy princess who yearns for happiness; Paul is the gallant knight on horse-back who rides to her rescue (Junkins 261). The mythical aspect of the story is evident in the style and symbols. In the opening lines, the first seven words have a fable-like quality reminiscent of any number of fairy princess tales, yet the wor...
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Paul's Mother
1,174 wordsANALYSIS OF A SHORT STORY The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H Lawrence is a reflection of society's materialism, the search for material happiness leaving on the side the real matter of life. People are looking for happiness in the wrong place. This is the story of a family who pretends to have a life full of luxury while their income is low and their debts are high. Paul, the older son of the family, after seeing to the importance of money and luck in his mother's life, discovers that he is not as...
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Money From Horse Races
808 wordsThe Rocking-Horse Winner The main themes in The Rocking-Horse Winner are the pursuit of love and luck. Both of the main characters in " The Rocking-Horse Winner", Hester and Paul, are in pursuit of love. First the mother, Hester married for love, and the love faded, she gained children from her marriage, but she could not love them. Nowhere in her life does she find love for anyone but herself. The closest thing to love that comes to her she rejects. That comes in the form of her young son Paul....
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The Rocking Horse Winner Symbolism
995 wordsD.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a short story that widely uses many techniques in which elaborate on the importance of many topics discussed. The character foils, which add to Paul's character, give a sense of the boy's growing need to gamble and become lucky. The whispering house is a main symbol in the plot that leads to the outcome of the story and the main force that drives the young boy to find a winner. Also widely used terms are imagery and irony. Many details are given thro...
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Lily's Mother
609 wordsThe Avalon Ballroom Mostly everyone has a hero, role model, or someone to look up to. These people can significantly affect your lifestyle, and what you do. The Avalon Ballroom by Ann Hood displays this type of character as the father of Lily, the protagonist. This highly respected patriarch inspires her to do many things, like to go to college at Princeton University just as he did. Lily seems to want to follow her father's footsteps by going to Princeton University. This "god-like" figure has ...
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Different Character Traits
379 wordsDifferent people have different character traits. Some traits are good and some traits are bad. In many cases, the character traits affect other people, especially if the person is a relative. That is why it is so important to realize that your actions affect other people beside yourself. We must take this into consideration before we act. When you describe the mother in the play, many things come to mind. She was a beautiful woman who was very well off when she was younger. Yet after she got ma...
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Paul Throughout The Story
652 wordsD.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking-Horse Winner' is a classic modernistic story about a family filled with inner conflicts all portrayed through the innocence of a young child. Tortured by a house that whispers to him, Paul tries to gain his mothers missing affection by presenting that he posses luck which gives him money. He presents this luck by picking the name of a winning horse while riding his rocking horse. The whispers which state 'there must be more money" disturbs Paul and he believes it exi...
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Paul's Mother
659 wordsIn this short story, 'The Rocking Horse Winner,' there is a little boy competing for his mother's love, and his mother bringing her son to his death with her confusing vocabulary. Paul's mother confuses him with her vocabulary words such as: love, money, lucky, unlucky, and peace of mind. She tells him that luck has to do with everything, and that she was extremely unlucky. Paul's family was not poor, but his mother wanted to compete with other families by having the best and the most stylish. S...
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Maurice's Mother
1,544 wordsMarc Cruz 8-29-00 He lay in his bed motionless, reflecting upon his life and how it had changed so quickly. He had lost his mother to an evil cocaine addiction a year earlier and was left to take care of his younger brother. The rent was 3 months over due, the phone was cut off, and the electricity was most likely next. He had reached the point were he was fed up with life. Why had he been put in this position? He put most of the blame on his mother for she had been the one who had spent all of ...
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Money And The Pursuit Of Material Gain
2,214 wordsThe Views of Modern Man By: Tyler Smith The various short stories of the age of analysis and anxiety do not depict man in a heroic guise, nor do they reflect any deep abiding faith in his destiny. This is especially true in the short stories "Gooseberries", "The Jewels", "The Rocking Horse Winner", and "The Devil and Daniel Webster" In each, theme is used to give a dim view of the future of mankind, and common themes help tie together a picture of what the authors of this age saw as a plague on ...
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Pauls Mother
2,030 wordsA Feminist Reading of D.H. Lawrence The Rocking Horse Winner The man that does not know sick women does not know women. - S. Weir Mitchell The Rocking Horse Winner is the story of a boys gift for picking the winners in horse races. An omniscient narrator relates the tale of a boy whose family is always short of money. His mother is incapable of showing love and is obsessed with the status that material wealth can provide. This paper will explore the premise that D.H. Lawrence presented the figur...
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Mother's Dominance Over Paul
1,144 wordsBrand ace Barker English IV Ms. Barrera 22 May 2000 The Character of Hester in Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" Hester is one of the main characters in D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner". The story describes a young boy, Paul, who tries to win his "mother's love by seeking the luck" (Kaplan 1971), which she believes she does not possess. Lawrence "condemns the modern notion that happiness and luck come from the outside, rather than from within; that happiness must take the form of m...
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Frankie's Mother And Father
708 wordsAngela's Ashes Exposition: Characters: Francis McCourt- protagonist Malachy McCourt (father) - antagonist Angela McCourt (mother) - protagonist Malachy McCourt (brother) - protagonist Michael McCourt (brother) - static Alphie McCourt (brother) - static The Abbot (uncle) - protagonist Uncle Pa Keating (uncle) - protagonist Aunt Aggie (aunt) - antagonist Setting: In the poor part of Limerick, Ireland around 1938. Rising Action: 1. Frankie's father, Malachy, lost his job in America. There is no mon...
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Catalog To My Mother
814 wordsA Bought Lesson Learned The moment had come for students and staff members to order and purchase school spirit attire for the 1987-1988 school term. This was avery exciting occasion my classmates and I because nothing mattered more than being able to showcase the joyous spirit for our beloved school. Mrs. Barbati, my homeroom teacher, passed out individual catalogs from which to make selections, and there were instant waves of highly motivated, but premature claims from any one student in the cl...
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Best 10 Speed Bike In The Neighborhood
522 wordsJoy, pure unadulterated joy! How else can I possibly describe the filling that came over me as we planned for our illegal, and immoral act. It was the day before my 10th birthday. September 10, 1978. All I could think of was the wonderful birthday party I was going to have and with any luck the 10-speed bike that I had been eyeing at the local Western Auto. But, when I mentioned the bike to my mother the look on her face quickly told of great disappointment in the near future. So when my best fr...
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Mother Courage Brecht
548 wordsWhat have the audience learned by witnessing Mother Courage's actions The audience can either learn nothing or learn a lot by watching Mother Courage. This is the nature of Mother Courage. Brecht believed that an audience's emotional involvement in the characters and action tends to cloud its grasp of the play's message. In his so-called epic theatre style, he tried to shatter traditional stage illusions of reality by using various visual techniques and an unemotional acting style. For example, ...
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Luck Money
1,406 wordsThere was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. And hurriedly she felt she must cover up some fault in herself. Yet what it was that she must cover up she never knew. Nevertheless, when her children were present, she always felt the centr...
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Paul's Mother And Paul's Greed
876 wordsThe Rocking Horse Winner When a person is lucky, it does not have to mean that they are fortunate with money. Luck is the chance for things to go the way you want them to go with out having any control over the situation. In The Rocking Horse Winner, Hester, the mother seems to believe that luck is strictly having money, and when there is no money, there is no luck. Hester's idea of luck meaning money brings forth the two ideas of greed and death throughout the story. Money plays a huge part in ...
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Money From Mother Crater
1,390 words"The Life You Save May Be Your Own", is a dramatic short story written by Flannery O'Connor, which captures the element of trick plotting at the slightest bit. The reader is fooled toward the end of the story, when one of the three main characters, Tom T. Shiftlet, completely leaves his wife, Lucynell Crater, and drives off to a city called Tuscaloosa. He earned the trust of Crater's mother, also going by the name Lucynell Crater, for two things: to gather as much money from them as possible, an...
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Paul's Vigorous Riding Of The Horse
1,018 wordsD. H Lawrence and "The Rocking Horse Winner": Levels of Symbolism Symbolic themes are commonplace in literary art. Whether used directly or indirectly by the author, these themes have been analyzed by several prominent critics, all having many different ideas about what lies beneath the literal wording of the story. In D. H Lawrence's "The Rocking Horse Winner", many symbolic ideas are conveyed throughout the story. Every character has unique characteristics which portray different symbolic them...
