Throughout history there have been many memorable writers, and pieces of literature, one of my favorites by far would have to be The Rocking Horse Winner, by D.H. Lawrence. D.H. Lawrence was a writer in the twentieth century, he began writing poems, stories and novel, and his poetry attracted the attention of a well-known writer and editor Ford Madox Ford. Lawrence published his first major novel in 1913. Anyway, The Rocking Horse Winner, is a story about a young boy whose mother cannot seem to get enough money and begins to bet on races. There are three main messages in, The Rocking Horse Winner.
The first message from, The Rocking Horse Winner, is parents hurt their kids without knowing it sometimes. The words a parent's says to their children can vaguely impact the way a child views the world. In, The Rocking Horse Winner, the boy “hears” the house whisper, “There must be more money! There must be more money!” Even though it’s just his mother saying it, she may not have known the boy was listening, but he was. This gives the boy the impression that there’s no money for them to live off of, but in all reality there’s not enough money for the way the mother wants to live. This family was middle-class and had enough money for food, …show more content…
The mother wasn’t very concerned about her son’s health, or what he ate, she just needed money to maintain the lifestyle she wanted. There was never enough money and when the boy won a bet, and would give her one thousand dollars every year on her birthday, for five years ; she was still greedy and asked for all of the money at once. Although, she had no clue where the money was coming from, she wanted it all to buy new things around the house. I do not believe money should be a mothers number one priority, her children should be, yes he hired her a tutor, but was that all he needed? He needed love from his
The first message from, The Rocking Horse Winner, is parents hurt their kids without knowing it sometimes. The words a parent's says to their children can vaguely impact the way a child views the world. In, The Rocking Horse Winner, the boy “hears” the house whisper, “There must be more money! There must be more money!” Even though it’s just his mother saying it, she may not have known the boy was listening, but he was. This gives the boy the impression that there’s no money for them to live off of, but in all reality there’s not enough money for the way the mother wants to live. This family was middle-class and had enough money for food, …show more content…
The mother wasn’t very concerned about her son’s health, or what he ate, she just needed money to maintain the lifestyle she wanted. There was never enough money and when the boy won a bet, and would give her one thousand dollars every year on her birthday, for five years ; she was still greedy and asked for all of the money at once. Although, she had no clue where the money was coming from, she wanted it all to buy new things around the house. I do not believe money should be a mothers number one priority, her children should be, yes he hired her a tutor, but was that all he needed? He needed love from his