From the outset D.H. Lawrence uses descriptive use of imagery in order to make the character of Paul more effective. Throughout the story Paul’s eyes change with his nature. At the beginning the writer describes Paul’s intense journey on the wooden rocking horse: “Wildly the horse careered, the waving dark hair of the boy tossed, his eyes had a strange glare in them. The little girls dared not speak to him.” The reference to “waving” suggest the power and energy Paul is putting into riding his rocking horse, just as if he was a real jockey, in a focussed imaginative area, putting every little of his strength into winning the race. In Paul’s case his eyes signal that he can see the winning horse going over the winning line.
These phrases made him understand that their family have financial problems. He then asked his mother why they are poor and she replied to him that it is because his father is “unlucky”. With her answer, Paul thought that being “lucky” means being “wealthy”. Maybe because of his persistence of calling himself lucky, he obtained his power to predict the name of the winners in the horse race. Paul loves to play with his rocking-horse and with it he predicts the winning horses.
Paul begins to ride the rocking horse fiercely hoping that if he rides long and hard enough he can make the rocking horse take him to his destination of luck and fortune. As he rides the horse he sees the horse winners in a real horse race. So he shares this information with his Gardner, Basset, and his uncle, Oscar, because the boy thinks that they are also lucky. So as the boy begins to predict more races and wins a lot of money, Paul finally decides to give his mother one thousand pounds a year for her birthday for the next five years hoping that the voices in the house will disappear. After Paul gives his mother The money, the house noises begins to grow louder and louder.
The questions that came up were what did the writer mean by his title? When the little boy would use his rocking-horse he would predict which horse would win was the answer that came to mine. That main idea is not to put pressures on your children about adult problems. The overall text is you make your own luck, it doesn’t find you, you find luck. Using these strategies helped with the understanding of the overall story.
This allowed me to understand and visualized the story from my perspective without confusion. Lastly during the after reading process I had many questions for example why did Paul die so suddenly? did this caused his mother to feel love got her children after Paul’s passing? At the end of the story the title also made more sense and had more significance as its meaning is when the little boy (Paul) would use his rocking-horse to predict what house would win. I was able to figure out the idea of the story which emphasized on putting too much emphasis on personal possessions at the expense of personal relationships as in the story one can hear the constant whispering of the house for the need for more money.
"The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence and "The Shining Houses" by Alice Munro portray characters who struggle to escape the power of their suppressors due to economic wealth, minority of age groups, as well as intentions and wishes of characters. First off, economic power or wealth causes problems for characters within “The Rocking-Horse Winner” as well as “The Shining Houses”. Within the story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, the little boy, Paul, begins to understand that although his family has material items, they are not very wealthy. Soon enough, Paul begins to see the effects this has on his household and family. He sees his mother is unhappy and hears the house whisper, “There must be more money!” (Lawrence 19).
Encouraging your child to buy a board game, scooter, bike, rip stick is better than a PlayStation, x-box and a Nintendo DS games that could really actually use most of your money. Kids need to be entertained by something or else they start to annoy their poor parents. But there are many ways you can entertain your children than just electronics. You might love seeing your child happy when they buy new toys but this can use up all your money which is also needed for other things. Video games and toys can start to take control of our lives, it will slowly make our brains deteriorate and can also persuade us to stay away from any social activities which can damage us mentally and emotionally in our later life.
Now this is the side of the story that I see, and the theme for this said would be the importance of family. This could be the theme for this subject because in the poem the boy seems to truly enjoy the horse play with his father, as it says in the poem “Then waltzed me off to bed / Still clinging to your shirt” (15-16), which shows he wants to keep playing and not go to bed. The other theme/subject is a little darker, where it seems that a drunken father comes home late one night to beat on his son. The theme for this subject is simple, “Abuse”, as this shows a young boy being beat. An example of this in the poem is when it says, “The hand that held my wrist / Was battered on one knuckle” (9-10), which shows the boy is being beat.
“The Rocking-Horse Winner”, by D.H. Lawrence, is a short story about how money can play such a large part in peoples’ lives that they will do whatever they can to make it seem to themselves and others as though they have money when they are really desperate to keep money flowing. In this story, the reader shows this message through the narrator and the boy, Paul’s, mother. In the beginning of the story, the narrator explains how family lived in a peasant house filled with servants and they felt superior to anyone in the neighborhood. The parents would go to expensive parties and drink mimosa and almond-blossom. The mother would wear fur cloaks.
Mel Gibson's directing abilities created a very unique and scenic artistic appeal. From the beginning of the movie, Wallace is given a sentimental memento by his lover that is killed by the English. Wallace holds dearly to this handkerchief he receives and this keeps his mercy intact which allows him to see the horrors of war but at the same time the beauty of the land. The battles were shot in a large,