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Have you ever thought of yourself as lucky? Maybe you have stumbled across a five-dollar bill in the middle of the road or gotten an A on a paper you felt was less than satisfactory. No matter what the circumstances are, it seems like a lucky person is always characterized with winning money. But what if you had to pay the ultimate price, your life or the life of a loved one, in order to win. Would you still “play the game” if you knew a life was at stake? “The Rocking Horse Winner”, by D.H. Lawrence, is an informative story about luck and one’s own fortune. In this story, Lawrence attempts to illustrate how one can guide one’s own fate, instead of allowing it to just happen. We are the only people that are able to affect what happens to us. By his use of characterization and irony Lawrence attempts to convey to the reader that success and luck are not something that one simply waits for to arrive, but something that we must achieve.
Lawrence uses two contrasting characters to help convey his point, Paul and his mother, Hester. Paul, according to the story, is lucky, whereas his mother is not. The characters did have a hand in the way their life would end up. Everyone enjoys being loved and cared for. In s
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Paul understood that if he were to succeed, he would have to work, despite what people said about his work. This knowledge also gave him a sense of the value of any money he earned. Because of the effort he put into earning money, he did not spend it unwisely. On the other hand, Hester received her money without having to work for it, getting no sense of it’s worth. “Hester squanders this money because she does not know any better, and it will take the life of her son to figure out the wrong of her ways” (jhsdf). Paul learns this by watching his mother. He sees what the little money they have does to her, and how she sits waiting for good things to happen to her, though they do not. From his mother’s resignation and its results, Paul learns what he must do if he wants to succeed. He learns from his mother’s mistakes, what the right thing to do is. In turn, Hester learns from her son, but by the time she does it is to late. She discovers him rocking himself into unconsciousness on the horse. “Paul’s mother, the inadvertent teacher, becomes the student, only to loser her teacher” (alkd).
There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she f
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