In the story it has many different messages and themes that makes you question yourself and Lawrence was good about doing that. This story brings up many interesting thoughts, about how gambling can be worse than a drug addiction because gambling controls the mind and with drug it's about the body. Lawrence was a great writer and had stories that had true relations to life. The three messages that come up in The Rocking-Horse WInner is gambling with economics, determination or fate, and raises disturbing questions about parents/ children. The first message in Rocking-Horse Winner is he raises questions about economics and the issue with money in this story. The family in this story has money, but the mother thinks that they don't have enough
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And with that being said if you believe in good luck then that means that you have to believe in bad luck as well. When the mother in the story says that they have no luck the boy Paul wants to change that because he himself thinks that he's lucky and would love to change that for his mother. The mother in this story states “Aren’t you too bid for a rocking horse?” (pg 1250) but she didn't realize that the rocking horse was Paul's way of having luck because he was able to tell who was going to win down at the horse track. With this boys determination it honestly drove him to his death. He was trying to do better for his family so he could think that his family would finally have luck. “Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes, “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” and Paul took the opportunity to make his family lucky and to prove to his mom that they can be lucky. But the mother didn't realize that what she said would ultimately determine her his to prove her wrong, and the boy didn’t really understand what she was saying because he was young and didn’t understand that they were actually fine and that he didn’t have to do what he did to get all that …show more content…
When the Mother tells the boy they’re unlucky that Paul took it serious. When the mother said that it couldn’t be undone and the damage had been done. But little did the mother know, she jacked up her son without realizing it. If you give them too much or too less you would potentially ruin them. On the final ride before be died he quoted “ It’s Malabar! Bassett, Bassett, I know it’s MALABAR” (pg 1260), when he said this, he was in a stage of insanity on his last ride of the rocking horse. But also the mother doesn’t realize that she was the one to cause his actions because he took that his family is unlucky to heart and the rode his rocking horse to hard it ultimately lead him to his death. Right before he had died he was being hysterical and he didn’t have a common since or grip of anything, but just kept yelling out what horse was going to win, and shortly after he had passed. So with this being said, in general what you say should be thought about because the kid may have been young but he had some kind of understanding of knowing how they were “unlucky” but what he didn’t know is that finally they were fine, but to the mother she didn’t think that they had enough. In Rocking-Horse Winner, there were many messages to be taken away from this story. This story is important because it raises many question on the economy for the time period, it raise
And with that being said if you believe in good luck then that means that you have to believe in bad luck as well. When the mother in the story says that they have no luck the boy Paul wants to change that because he himself thinks that he's lucky and would love to change that for his mother. The mother in this story states “Aren’t you too bid for a rocking horse?” (pg 1250) but she didn't realize that the rocking horse was Paul's way of having luck because he was able to tell who was going to win down at the horse track. With this boys determination it honestly drove him to his death. He was trying to do better for his family so he could think that his family would finally have luck. “Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes, “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” and Paul took the opportunity to make his family lucky and to prove to his mom that they can be lucky. But the mother didn't realize that what she said would ultimately determine her his to prove her wrong, and the boy didn’t really understand what she was saying because he was young and didn’t understand that they were actually fine and that he didn’t have to do what he did to get all that …show more content…
When the Mother tells the boy they’re unlucky that Paul took it serious. When the mother said that it couldn’t be undone and the damage had been done. But little did the mother know, she jacked up her son without realizing it. If you give them too much or too less you would potentially ruin them. On the final ride before be died he quoted “ It’s Malabar! Bassett, Bassett, I know it’s MALABAR” (pg 1260), when he said this, he was in a stage of insanity on his last ride of the rocking horse. But also the mother doesn’t realize that she was the one to cause his actions because he took that his family is unlucky to heart and the rode his rocking horse to hard it ultimately lead him to his death. Right before he had died he was being hysterical and he didn’t have a common since or grip of anything, but just kept yelling out what horse was going to win, and shortly after he had passed. So with this being said, in general what you say should be thought about because the kid may have been young but he had some kind of understanding of knowing how they were “unlucky” but what he didn’t know is that finally they were fine, but to the mother she didn’t think that they had enough. In Rocking-Horse Winner, there were many messages to be taken away from this story. This story is important because it raises many question on the economy for the time period, it raise