Fatal Patterns In 'Rocking Horse Winner And The Lottery'
Fiction Essay: Death Through Parenting: How a Parent Passes on Fatal Patterns
ENGL 102: Composition and Literature
Writing Style Used: MLA ENGL 102 B30
27 January 2014
Death Through Parenting: How a Parent Passes on Fatal Patterns
Thesis Statement: The two stories, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by Shirley Jackson and “The Lottery” by D.H. Lawrence reveal that parents and other family members have a great influence on the moral development of the children in their lives: a person’s value is controlled by external factors rather than in who they are, and one’s own good is more important than the good of another. Death Through Parenting: How a Parent Passes on Fatal Patterns
I. Thesis Statement: The two stories, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by Shirley Jackson and “The Lottery” by D.H. Lawrence reveal that parents and other family members have a great influence on the emotional and moral development of the children in their lives: a person’s value is controlled by external factors rather than in who they are, …show more content…
Both stories have child characters that are influenced by parents who are emotionally damaged and functioning in a way that brings harm to themselves and to their children.
B. The children act out in ways that reveal the damage they have inherited.
II. In "The Rocking Horse Winner" Paul’s parents are emotionally damaged.
A. Paul’s mother is emotionally damaged which caused her to not be able to love.
1. She has many advantages having beauty and talent, love when she married, and bonny children.
2. Somehow she felts a lack in herself and that her children do not like her.
3. She “felt she must cover up some fault in herself. Yet what it was that she must cover up she never knew…at the center of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love, no, not for anybody.” (5)
4. Paul’s father and mother have expensive tastes and place value on keeping up an appearance of wealth even though that is not the true situation in their
ENGL 102: Composition and Literature
Writing Style Used: MLA ENGL 102 B30
27 January 2014
Death Through Parenting: How a Parent Passes on Fatal Patterns
Thesis Statement: The two stories, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by Shirley Jackson and “The Lottery” by D.H. Lawrence reveal that parents and other family members have a great influence on the moral development of the children in their lives: a person’s value is controlled by external factors rather than in who they are, and one’s own good is more important than the good of another. Death Through Parenting: How a Parent Passes on Fatal Patterns
I. Thesis Statement: The two stories, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by Shirley Jackson and “The Lottery” by D.H. Lawrence reveal that parents and other family members have a great influence on the emotional and moral development of the children in their lives: a person’s value is controlled by external factors rather than in who they are, …show more content…
Both stories have child characters that are influenced by parents who are emotionally damaged and functioning in a way that brings harm to themselves and to their children.
B. The children act out in ways that reveal the damage they have inherited.
II. In "The Rocking Horse Winner" Paul’s parents are emotionally damaged.
A. Paul’s mother is emotionally damaged which caused her to not be able to love.
1. She has many advantages having beauty and talent, love when she married, and bonny children.
2. Somehow she felts a lack in herself and that her children do not like her.
3. She “felt she must cover up some fault in herself. Yet what it was that she must cover up she never knew…at the center of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love, no, not for anybody.” (5)
4. Paul’s father and mother have expensive tastes and place value on keeping up an appearance of wealth even though that is not the true situation in their