“The Destructors” And “The Rocking Horse Winner” Comparison and Contrast By Edward R. Tierney In this paper‚ I will compare and contrast the characters‚ themes‚ suspense and moral principles found in the stories The Destructors by Graham Greene and The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence. It is interesting that both Graham Green and D.H. Lawrence wrote during different time periods but share misery as a common theme. I can understand how Lawrence wrote from this perspective‚ because
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family and religion can play a large role in any story. Family gives background to any character and religion can flesh out their morals and reasoning. Family provides the main motive for both of the protagonists in “Sredni Vashtar” and “The Rocking Horse Winner‚” even though each protagonists family is completely different which inspires them in different ways. Family has a part to play in how religion is pictured‚ which makes each interpretation of religion different but also similar. The family
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Dunbar‚ a soldier in the Civil War‚ ran out in the middle of a firefight on a horse‚ a suicidal action that ended up showing bravery and strength. This act had earned him a promotion to Second Lieutenant and job as a scout for land and enemies in the Frontier of America. For the first few weeks of his new post on the Great Plains‚ Second Lieutenant John Dunbar was quite lonely‚ with only his new horse Cisco‚ the horse he had ridden on the day of his promotion‚ to keep him company. Soon‚ a wolf with
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"The Searchers" versus All the Pretty Horses The American west is one of our most revered eras‚ romanticized by numerous forms of media in the United States. Mediums of movies‚ books and television shows glorify the fiction of the old west. John Ford’s film "The Searchers" is an ideal example of this romanticized American West. Typically‚ an American Western story confines the women to home duties‚ having no original ideas or thoughts of their own‚ while the status of the hero is elevated by
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that they have a hard time putting the book down; I have never experienced that. I wish reading came easier to me. On the other hand‚ life can be joyful. There are three things that I am always grateful for‚ my horse Armi‚ food and my family. I am very glad I have a pet horse named Armi. I am glad I have him for three reasons. One reason is‚ he is super friendly. He is friendly because he will not bite people. Another way he is friendly is when ever someone comes up to his stall he will
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All the Pretty Horses would be widely considered a fairly typical western in the traditional sense. There are many of the common western tropes that exist explicitly and implicitly within the novel. While much of the idealistic “western” characteristics appear in a blatant manner‚ the novel is laced with incidents and dialogue of seemingly little consequence or significance at first glance. There are many occurrences which are overlooked in the story that represent and support a common and major
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frantic endings‚ come to mind when describing the short stories‚ The Yellow Wallpaper and The Rocking-Horse Winner. Both Gilman and Lawrence included a set of unsettling events involving extreme accounts of psychosis. Although‚ sharing the concept of psychosis‚ the origins of which each main characters experiences stem from differs. The conflicts in both stories differ greatly. In The Rock-Horse Winner‚ the main conflict is with the son‚ Paul. Paul believes he is ’lucky’ because of his winning streak
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The symbol of post-war Japan in “the white horse” In the story of “the white horse”‚ Kawabata creates a protagonist called Noguchi‚ which is a loneliness hopeless and aged person. In my point of view‚ Noguchi is a symbol for post-war Japan. Because after world war two‚ Japan is full of loneliness disappointed and preoccupation with death like Noguchi in the story. Author tries to portray a single character’s feeling as the shortcomings of post-war Japan. And use Noguchi’s view to see the change
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Ricardo Cortez Prof. P. Vedula English-1102 (60384) 04 July 2012 Rough draft with markups on irony in “A Pair of Tickets” and “A Rocking Horse Winner” Two of the many definitions of irony that I like are found on dictionary.com. The first definition states that irony is “incongruity between what is expected to be and what actually is‚ or a situation or result showing such incongruity” (“Irony”). The second defines Dramatic irony as "…irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama
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“Araby” from Dubliners‚ a young Irish boy in Dublin is followed through his endeavors to court a young girl and his trials along the way. In D.H. Lawrence’s story “The Rocking Horse Winner‚” a young boy named Paul contemplates wealth and respect to earn the ardent affection of his mother. Both “Araby” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” employ a storyline based on romanticism from the medieval period‚ in which a juvenile went out on a quest to find something for his beloved and return it. However‚ Joyce
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