The Rocking Horse

Rocking horse is considered one of those texts that will never stop affecting its readers. This story talks about a young boy who discovers that his family isn’t very wealthy and he wants to help. At the beginning his mother tells the son how much of a gambling problem his father had. Parents in today’s society have trouble knowing that they influence their children more than they may think. Little kids are known to become violent if a parent is violent towards the other. In this story this child turns into a gambler like his father, his mother becomes ungrateful for what she is given, and the uncle goes along with it all. After learning about his family’s financial struggles, the little boy wants to help. He gets on his rocking horse and learns the name of a horse in an upcoming horse race. He is positive that that will be the horse that will win. When he tells his horseracing friend that that’s the horse he wants to bet on, he thinks that he is crazy. After the winning horse is the one that they boy told him about, the boy’s uncle comes and asks how he knew that horse was going to win. Saying that he just knew wasn’t good enough for his uncle. Now after a couple of races his uncle wanted to be part of his team.
The boy planned on giving the money that he had acquired to his mother for her birthday. He started out with giving her a small amount of money and telling her that she can get this set amount out for the next five years. Like any human would do, she wanted all of the money when she wanted it which was right away. The problem with that is that she was very ungrateful that he son wanted to give all of his money to his mom, every last penny. She wanted all of the money the second she heard how much she was getting in