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.
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.
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.
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.
During the reading I realized that the family is very sad; this is because the parental figures have a constant need to acquire more and more money, the mother especially wants to have the ability to always afford items that are expensive and to maintain the image of an the elite family that everyone admires and strives to be like. It seemed that the children have distanced themselves from their mom for this very reason. This was illustrated by the impression they had of their mom before, who has now become their source of hatred shown by their cold stares. This is because they came to the realization that money is her main priority and/or being lucky. The mother stated that she was once lucky, to her son.
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.
But her parents does not give their blessing because the prince is wealthy and powerful. So once again she asks Ina for help. Ending: Ina gets a magic relic from Lasar that makes Aisling appear dead. Then she magically wakes up when Ronan comes to see her thus making her parents letting him marry her. The end.
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.
Nora behaves childishly and he enjoys treating her like a child to be instructed and indulged. Soon an old friend of Nora's, Christine Linde, arrives. She is a childless widow who is moving back to the city. Her husband left her no money, so she has tried different kinds of work, and now hopes to find some work that is not too strenuous. Nora confides to Christine that she once secretly borrowed money from a disgraced lawyer, Nils Krogstad, to save Torvald's life when he was very ill, but she has not told him in order to protect his pride.