The Rocking-Horse Winner Story Elements
"Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it" (Thompson). Being able to manage luck is a privlege, which is not easy. The outcome can either be good or bad depending on if you are capable of handling the luck properly. This short story is fiction, written about the times before World War I. The moral of the story is not to revolve life around luck, and accept life the way it is. This had a negative impact on both of them in the longrun. D.H. Lawrence, the author started teaching in 1908. Lawrence met his wife in Germany and they moved to England right before World War I, which caused some problems. This short story was based on a family living around the time that World War I occured. This time frame was also significant to Lawrence's life because him and his wife moved to England right before the war. The family in the story lives in luxory, but the mother can never be satisfied. Paul makes money to give to the mother by predicting the winners of the horse races. When he gives his mother his earnings she is …show more content…
When Paul was asked to give away his rocking-horse, the question was earth shattering, he was just unable to. "But Paul only gave a blue glare from his big, rather close-set eyes" (Lawrence). Paul looked deeply at his mother with his blue eyes when she purposed the idea of giving away his rocking-horse because they truly had a special connection. Likewise, it would be a disadvantage for Paul because of his objective to help his mother. "Paul is the young boy in the story who tries desperately to find a way to have “luck,” meaning money, for his mother" (Wilson). Paul reaches his ultimate goal by predicting the horse race winners. This goal shows that all Paul wanted in his life was to make everyone happy, because he could see his mother was depressed all the time and he wished to
"Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it" (Thompson). Being able to manage luck is a privlege, which is not easy. The outcome can either be good or bad depending on if you are capable of handling the luck properly. This short story is fiction, written about the times before World War I. The moral of the story is not to revolve life around luck, and accept life the way it is. This had a negative impact on both of them in the longrun. D.H. Lawrence, the author started teaching in 1908. Lawrence met his wife in Germany and they moved to England right before World War I, which caused some problems. This short story was based on a family living around the time that World War I occured. This time frame was also significant to Lawrence's life because him and his wife moved to England right before the war. The family in the story lives in luxory, but the mother can never be satisfied. Paul makes money to give to the mother by predicting the winners of the horse races. When he gives his mother his earnings she is …show more content…
When Paul was asked to give away his rocking-horse, the question was earth shattering, he was just unable to. "But Paul only gave a blue glare from his big, rather close-set eyes" (Lawrence). Paul looked deeply at his mother with his blue eyes when she purposed the idea of giving away his rocking-horse because they truly had a special connection. Likewise, it would be a disadvantage for Paul because of his objective to help his mother. "Paul is the young boy in the story who tries desperately to find a way to have “luck,” meaning money, for his mother" (Wilson). Paul reaches his ultimate goal by predicting the horse race winners. This goal shows that all Paul wanted in his life was to make everyone happy, because he could see his mother was depressed all the time and he wished to