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.
He wanted to prove to his mother Hester, that he himself had luck with money compared to his father. As Paul says in his last word’s in the story, “I never told you, mother, that if I can ride my horse, and get there, then I'm absolutely sure - oh, absolutely! Mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky.” Paul wants to change his mother into a loving mother rather than keeping her as a neglectful parent because she is a person who has a mindset of only material possessions are her only main focus in life. Throughout the story, Paul’s mother continuously pushes her idea that luck equals being rich and that money is the most important in her life.
Lazy Lawrence The story “Lazy Lawrence” is about a young boy, Jem, which lives with his mother and his mother cannot afford the rent. So in order for the rent to get paid, she was going to sell their horse, Lightfoot. Jem does not want this to happen so he takes matters into his own hands. He finds work with a mistress and saves every penny he gets to save his horse. When the day comes to sell the horse, Jem wanted to surprise his mother with the money, but then he realized someone stole all the money that he had saved up.
The boy wants to win the races so that he could show his mother he has luck which is money. It seems that the mother is the antagonist. She is a mother of three children and she finds small work in town by designing ads for designer clothing. The main role of the mother is that she begins to have instinctual feeling for her son, one night and knows something wrong has happened to him. She begins to develop some feeling and affection towards her son when she sees how determined he is about winning a race with one specific horse.
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.
When his most loved daughter comments on her sister’s reactions about his wishes, he then begins to go insane after irrationally separating his land between two of his three daughters based on their charm bringing terrible consequences for everyone. I would say that’s Lear’s first mistake; separating power and responsibility. His two eldest daughters are prepared to be in control of their own lives (age wise) but not necessarily mature enough. A reason of immaturity from the daughters that Lear didn’t notice was how fond they were of him when he declared his wanting, therefore, they aren’t ready to rule a kingdom. They allowed their father to act as if he is still in charge.
Winner Winner "The rocking horse winner" by D.H. Lawrence is a striking story about a little boy, Paul, who secretly rides his rocking horse to pick the winning horse in the various horse races that took place. After the beginning of the story, there is a short conversation between Paul and his mother about luck, and it was that conversation that started the whole dramatic episode which lead to Paul's death. In the conversations between Paul and his mother, the phrase, “we need more money” was constantly echoing in the house. This led Paul to believe that his rocking horse could save his family from a life of poverty. The dialogue between Paul and his mother is mainly about luck and how a person can get money if a person is lucky.
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.
Before challenges: Aisling asks Ina for guidance and she agrees to help her. So she goes to her friend Lasar who are a descendant of a druid family, whom gives her a magic bracelet which will grow more beautiful every time she does a good deed. The challenges: Aisling first saves a baby from a burning house, then a drowning kid and at last she helps a lumberjack that jacks his own leg. After the challenges: A fine prince from a great country wants to marry Aisling but she only wants Ronan. But her parents does not give their blessing because the prince is wealthy and powerful.
Her first thought, when she received the invitation, was of appearance instead of gratitude. Madame Loisel was unsatisfied with what her husband had given her and wanted even more, mainly because that is what she needed to impress everyone else. Even after her husband had given up 400 francs that he was to spend on a weekend hunting trip with his friends, for his spouse’s dress, she still was not fulfilled and complained by saying, “’I hate not having a single jewel, not one stone to wear, I shall look so dowdy. I’d almost rather not go to the party’” (de Maupassant 335). He had suggested that she wear some flowers instead of expensive jewels, but she claimed that it was not enough for her.