Raising a Child
(3 Messages from The Rocking Horse Winner) Labeled: jock, geek, prep, outcast, etc. Everyone ends up receiving a label somehow. The question is how? How did these labels occur? Mom said that that guy was weird and dad said to stay away from him because he is a hoodlum. Mom and dad had been to teach us labels without knowing it. Mom and dad are the people who don’t realize that they messed up their kids until it was too late. Paul ended up dying because of his mother. In D.W. Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner, three messages can explain why Paul’s mother can cause her son’s by accident. The first message would be that money can affect how a person grows to be. Now, money isn’t the only thing that affects who the person grows up to be, but it can bring an affect. Children who come from rich families and have been given everything on a silver platter tend to be more spoiled than others. Some kid who live in families that have next to nothing tend to be more generous when they do find themselves if wealth. Now, money doesn’t have to be the only way for a person to be this way, it could just been how their child had raised them. Money can make people greedy, but it’s not the only commodity that can cause greed. …show more content…
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” A childish phrase meant to make kids feel better after being bullied. The only problem is that this phrase doesn’t work when the words come from someone close to the child. The person who will have the most effect is their parents, even if it wasn’t how they meant it. “‘Is luck money, mother?’ he asked rather timidly. ‘No, Paul! Not quite. It’s what causes you to have money.’” (The Rocking Horse Winner; D.H. Lawrence; pg. 1248) This quote is the perfect example of a parent saying something that wasn’t meant to impact a child but did. To put it basically, be careful of what you
(3 Messages from The Rocking Horse Winner) Labeled: jock, geek, prep, outcast, etc. Everyone ends up receiving a label somehow. The question is how? How did these labels occur? Mom said that that guy was weird and dad said to stay away from him because he is a hoodlum. Mom and dad had been to teach us labels without knowing it. Mom and dad are the people who don’t realize that they messed up their kids until it was too late. Paul ended up dying because of his mother. In D.W. Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner, three messages can explain why Paul’s mother can cause her son’s by accident. The first message would be that money can affect how a person grows to be. Now, money isn’t the only thing that affects who the person grows up to be, but it can bring an affect. Children who come from rich families and have been given everything on a silver platter tend to be more spoiled than others. Some kid who live in families that have next to nothing tend to be more generous when they do find themselves if wealth. Now, money doesn’t have to be the only way for a person to be this way, it could just been how their child had raised them. Money can make people greedy, but it’s not the only commodity that can cause greed. …show more content…
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” A childish phrase meant to make kids feel better after being bullied. The only problem is that this phrase doesn’t work when the words come from someone close to the child. The person who will have the most effect is their parents, even if it wasn’t how they meant it. “‘Is luck money, mother?’ he asked rather timidly. ‘No, Paul! Not quite. It’s what causes you to have money.’” (The Rocking Horse Winner; D.H. Lawrence; pg. 1248) This quote is the perfect example of a parent saying something that wasn’t meant to impact a child but did. To put it basically, be careful of what you