She tells him that she has no luck and so the house is cursed by a shortage of money. As a result of this pivotal conversation Paul taps into a supernatural power. By using his rocking horse he can now find out the names of the winning horse in natural race meetings. However, in doing so Paul tries too hard and he becomes desperately ill. His dies in his quest to win his mothers love. From the outset D.H. Lawrence uses descriptive use of imagery in order to make the character of Paul more effective.
Paul is so sick of these voices that he wants to prove his mother wrong. Paul says to his mother that he has luck and the mother then just begins to laugh at him. Paul now set out to prove his mother wrong by showing that he does have luck and he hopes that the voices in the house would stop talking and saying “There must be more money”(p267, Para, 5). Paul then demands that his rocking horse that he had received at Christmas brings him luck. 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.
Book 2 Ch. 1 The chapter begins with Father Joseph Vaillant returning from a visit to Albuquerque. He contemplates the people of Santo Domingo, who will come to hear but will not allow their children to be baptized. The Spanish have mistreated them long ago, and they do not forget. Father Joseph rides a wind-broken horse, sold to him by a Yankee trader, which he believes is evidence of his own mistreatment.
The person versus person conflict involves the mother and her relationship with her children. It revolves around how the story states, “She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them”. The person versus wealth conflict revolves around how there is not enough money to enable the family to maintain their standard of living. An example of this is when the story quotes, “There was never enough money, the mother had a small income, and the father had a small income, but not nearly enough for the social position which they had to keep up”. I believe that these quotes and examples best fit the conflict portion of the story when using formalizing techniques.
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.
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.
They feel abandoned and dejected. A sense of being valued and loved in females is considered a key element in the development of females. Another very devastating affect on a child is fear of being abandoned by the remaining parent. The often wonder the consequences of the possibility that the remaining parent might abandon the child as well. Of course, living in fear everyday, is not a healthy habit and certainly not for a growing child.
When they suffer from a lack of attention it leads to loneliness and depression. In addition to feeling lonely and depressed, they feel like a complete outsider, they feel different; they feel like they are a “wrong” person. “Nobody even stops to think of my side of it.” “Why do I have to be the one with braces” (Audre, 24-30). In today’s day and age many adolescents are suffering from being different or feeling “wrong”. “Mommy, daddy, I just want to let you know I’m gay.” Some parents who have gay kids try and prevent them from being gay hoping to
They may not do it on purpose but whether they realize it or not, it can destroy their family. Fathers should not make their job too much of a priority because it upsets and affects the female parent, a father’s presence helps children’s development, and it can be bad for the fathers health. The biggest problem mothers have with overworked fathers is the lack of attention showed to the child by the father. “We have a one year old who misses his daddy as much as I do.” (healthboards.com). This was written by a female parent on healthboards website.
This can cause a child to be confused and stressed because of the love the child has for both parents. Those all create a challenging new family circumstance in which to live. For children, divorce can be negative emotion suck as bitterness, stress, sad, confusing, emotional pain, fear, feeling abandoned, feeling betrayed and loss of self-esteem. At any age, kids may feel uncertain or angry at the prospect of mom and dad splitting up. When their divorced parents keep on fighting.