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    The Rocking Horse Winner

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    Student Name Professor Class Date Lack of Mother’s Love Leads to Abnormal Behavior in D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” In the short story‚ “The Rocking-Horse Winner‚” D. H. Lawrence portrays the main character‚ Paul‚ as someone who adopts an abnormal behavioral quirk and takes it to the ultimate extreme. He is the young son of a poor family in England whose members equate luck with money and money with love‚ consequently Paul has a distorted perception of what is required to

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    The rocking horse winner

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    Assigment 1. Reading Strategies & Formalist Theory Lesson 1 The purpose of reading “The Rocking-horse Winner” is to demonstrate my understanding of the comprehension strategies studied in this lesson. I never heard about the author before; because of this I will approach my reading word by word. This is going to allow me to make connections with my own experience‚ create mental images and have a better understanding. Even though I never read the story before‚ I know this is a short story because

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    The Rocking Horse Winner

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    AP Literature and Composition 5 September 2012 The Rocking-Horse Winner Questions 1. The purpose of this story is to show the importance of the choices that you make. If you’re going to wish for something‚ just make sure to think twice about it before the wish finalizes. In this simplistic style of writing‚ direct characterization and its use of the wish motif make this story a fable of sorts‚ a tale meant to teach a lesson. The story is centered around a child who potentially has magical

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    Rocking Horse Winner

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    Views on Femininity of The Rocking Horse Winner D.H. Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner is a short story that easily shows a feminist side. Paul’s mother is a main character who is trapped in a society where she has to stick to the social norms. She will do anything to keep up the appearance even if it constitutes spending more money than the family has. “I can’t be‚ if I married an unlucky husband” (2). Because her husband is unlucky‚ she is considered unlucky. The mother is tied to the husband

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    writers from Fitzgerald’s Gatsby to Milne’s Pooh‚ writers in the 1920’s wrote with themes centralizing around money‚ love‚ and the problems that follow in a fairy tale way. One man stands out from the rest with a great work titled The Rocking Horse Winner‚ in which D.H Lawrence depicts a scene of twisted virtues and painstaking love. " The final stories of D.H.‚ written in the middle and late 1920’s represent a period of formal experimentation in which he moved away from traditional narrative realism

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    The Road

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    Experiencing Through a Story Living in a post-apocalyptic world would leave one feeling terrified‚ alone‚ and on the brink of going mad‚ but it is hard to imagine these feelings to the actual extent. In the book The Road‚ McCarthy is able to draw the readers in for them to experience the real emotions of living in a post-apocalyptic world. The readers are able to feel this fear and realness because McCarthy impersonalizes the two main characters and clearly depicts the differences of life before

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    Horse Winner Conflict

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    The conflict in the story involves the mother not feeling content‚ because she believes she married into an unlucky family. This feeling of unhappiness led her to believe that she feels no love towards her children. The conflict of the story helped to develop the theme: her son Paul can sense the tension in the house and can hear the house whisper “there must be more money”; because of this‚ he rides his rocking-horse until he goes into a clairvoyant phase where he sees the winning horse of the next

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    Winners Never Cheat

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    Winners never cheat and cheaters never win Winners never cheat and cheaters never win. Americans have grown up with this statement. It is as American as baseball or apple pie. It appears that over the years‚ winning has become everything and athletes will do whatever it takes to win. In order to achieve this goal‚ more and more professional athletes are turning to the use of performance enhancing drugs. "A performance enhancing drug is any substance that is taken for the sole purpose of enhancing

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    Rocking Horse Winner

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    The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is a tragic story in which the protagonist Hester learns that money does not equal happiness. The setting in the short story is used to express Hester’s longing for luck and what comes along with it. The Rocking Horse Winner takes place approximately from August to End November early December. We can tell that it ends near November because near the end of the story Hester’s birthday arrives which is in November and the book takes place over

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    GENS1101 Fiction Analysis Directions: Use critical thinking strategies to analyze the short stories from the fiction section of the Mercury Reader. 1. Title of Selection: The Rocking-Horse Winner 2. Author: D.H. Lawrence. Was born in a coal town in the dusty industrial area of England but didn’t find his way to the mines because of his mother. His writing mostly criticizes society. 3. Theme: Possessions are not more important than personal connections. Paul is trying

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