'An Analysis Of Three Messages From The Rocking Horse Winner'
Three Messages
(An Analysis of Three Messages from Rocking Horse Winner)
Have you ever wished that you had more money? Have you ever thought of any ways you could bring more money your way? In the Rocking Horse Winner, the family lives well beyond their means. There are many messages that you could get from this story. How people take those messages and interpret them is up to them. Greed, sorrow, and guilt are three messages from The Rocking Horse Winner.” The first message from The Rocking Horse Winner is greed. The family in this story live well beyond their means. This means they have an expensive taste in lifestyle, and not enough money to support that habit. In the beginning of the story, the mother tells Paul that they are unlucky, so they don’t have a lot of money. She says, “Well -- I suppose it’s because your father has no luck,” when asked why they are the poor members of the family. (Page 1248) She believes that they are poor because they are unlucky, not because they have an expensive taste in lifestyle. As Little Richard once said, “Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried …show more content…
There ends up being a lot of sorrow from many people in this story. In the beginning of the story when Paul is told they are unlucky, he feels bad for his family. He wants to help his mother because rich, so he tries to convince her that he is lucky. He says, “ Well, anyhow I’m a lucky person.” (Page 1249) Because of this, he goes through many obstacles to show his mom that he was a lucky person. Henry Longfellow said, “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” This tell us that we never know what problems people are facing and we judge them anyway. As Shakespeare once said, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” Paul's problems may have seemed small, but to him they were really serious and
(An Analysis of Three Messages from Rocking Horse Winner)
Have you ever wished that you had more money? Have you ever thought of any ways you could bring more money your way? In the Rocking Horse Winner, the family lives well beyond their means. There are many messages that you could get from this story. How people take those messages and interpret them is up to them. Greed, sorrow, and guilt are three messages from The Rocking Horse Winner.” The first message from The Rocking Horse Winner is greed. The family in this story live well beyond their means. This means they have an expensive taste in lifestyle, and not enough money to support that habit. In the beginning of the story, the mother tells Paul that they are unlucky, so they don’t have a lot of money. She says, “Well -- I suppose it’s because your father has no luck,” when asked why they are the poor members of the family. (Page 1248) She believes that they are poor because they are unlucky, not because they have an expensive taste in lifestyle. As Little Richard once said, “Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried …show more content…
There ends up being a lot of sorrow from many people in this story. In the beginning of the story when Paul is told they are unlucky, he feels bad for his family. He wants to help his mother because rich, so he tries to convince her that he is lucky. He says, “ Well, anyhow I’m a lucky person.” (Page 1249) Because of this, he goes through many obstacles to show his mom that he was a lucky person. Henry Longfellow said, “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” This tell us that we never know what problems people are facing and we judge them anyway. As Shakespeare once said, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” Paul's problems may have seemed small, but to him they were really serious and