Humans beings go through a lot of troubles and obstacles every day of there life some people go through more troubles than other people the only thing that gives people a boost is the thought of coming home and spending time with there families Sometimes people are to absorbed into there own world and they start to neglect the people they love and when people get neglected they start to change In The Rocking Horse Winner and The Jewels it is shown how neglect can effect not only the one being n
The Rocking Horse Winner To begin with The Rocking Horse Winner is a short story written by D H Lawrence This short story is about a young boy named Paul who feels the need to have luck due to his mother always saying that his father has no luck and is always in the need for having more and more money According to the mother if you have luck you have money that is why its better to be born lucky than rich P 268 Para 5 Due to this constant saying Paul and the rest of the family hear voices in th
The Rocking Horse Winner The story is about a boy named Paul who tries to win his mothers love by gambling for money Paul has a special power which he can talk to his rocking horse to find out the winning races However in the end Paul tries too hard to win his mothers love and dies The moral theme is revealed through Paul who is the protagonist and his relationships with the characters The relationships which result in conflict is between Pauls mother and father between mother and Paul Oscar an
The Rocking Horse Winner Hester is one of the main characters in D H Lawrences The Rocking Horse Winner The story describes a young boy Paul who tries to win his mothers love by seeking the luck which she believes she does not possess Lawrence condemns the modern notion that happiness and luck come from the outside rather than from within that happiness must take the form of money and goods rather than the erotic parental and filial love Lawrence 658 The story is an ironic and materialistic tra
The Rocking Horse Winner In D H Lawrences A rocking Horse Winner 1920 themes of death love and sacrifice are explored It is a story about a boy Paul who lives with his parents in England Money around the familys home is tight and the boy knows this Neither of his parents make enough money to support their lavish keeping up with the Jones lifestyle so there is a constant whisper around the house asking very simply where the money has gone The boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas one year A
In the short story The Bet by Anton Chekhow a lawyer that we later know as the prisoner and a banker agree to a two million dollar bet in which the lawyer would spend fifteen years in solitary confinement Basically the bet was based on the death penalty or life imprisonment the lawyer choosing life imprisonment over death Neither the banker or the lawyer had not won the bet beacause they both broken rules by having human contact writing letters and also leaving minutes early The banker had brok
The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence and The Destructors by Graham Greene are each set in Post War eras and depict a dark and depressed time in which individuals struggled with poverty and desolation Written in the third person both stories use a young boy who goes to great lengths to accomplish a greatly desired goal The theme of the story is decided by the readers perception with greed misery tragedy and materialism just to name a few For the purpose of this paper we are assuming that the