Sredni Vashtar And The Rocking Horse Winner Essay
Both 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 figures in both stories are different yet influence religion in the same way. The role family in “Sredni Vashtar” is solely occupied by Mrs. De Ropp. Her and the protagonist’s relationship if full of lies and secret hatred. The boy openly
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In “Shredni Vashtar” the boy is driven by his hatred towards Mrs. De Ropp. In “The Rocking Horse Winner” the protagonist is driven by wanting luck so his mother could have money and so that the house would stop whispering. It is never explicitly said whether or not the boy truly loves his mother, he does go so far that he becomes sick and dies for his mother, which shows how much he actually loved his mother. When describing his mother in the beginning of the story however it says, “she could not love them,” them being her children. This shows how she did not really love her children. Although later in the story the mother is found to have, “sudden strange seizures of uneasiness about him,” showing that she has developed some connection to him that makes her care for his safety. In “Sredni Vashtar” it is very clear on the boys views of Mrs. De Ropp. He states that, “she represented those three-fifths of the world that are necessary and disagreeable and real; the other two-fifths, in perpetual antagonism to the foregoing, were summed up in himself and his imagination.” This shows how he views the world in two distinct parts, him and Mrs. De Ropp are on either sides of a coin, him living in imagination, and her living in the disagreeable real
In “Shredni Vashtar” the boy is driven by his hatred towards Mrs. De Ropp. In “The Rocking Horse Winner” the protagonist is driven by wanting luck so his mother could have money and so that the house would stop whispering. It is never explicitly said whether or not the boy truly loves his mother, he does go so far that he becomes sick and dies for his mother, which shows how much he actually loved his mother. When describing his mother in the beginning of the story however it says, “she could not love them,” them being her children. This shows how she did not really love her children. Although later in the story the mother is found to have, “sudden strange seizures of uneasiness about him,” showing that she has developed some connection to him that makes her care for his safety. In “Sredni Vashtar” it is very clear on the boys views of Mrs. De Ropp. He states that, “she represented those three-fifths of the world that are necessary and disagreeable and real; the other two-fifths, in perpetual antagonism to the foregoing, were summed up in himself and his imagination.” This shows how he views the world in two distinct parts, him and Mrs. De Ropp are on either sides of a coin, him living in imagination, and her living in the disagreeable real