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Theme Of Love In The Rocking Horse Winner

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The world has always been full of hatred, war, and strife, but the one thing holding us together is love. One of the main concepts of happiness is being loved and loving others. In my 17 years of living, I have seen and experienced love on multiple occasions. The love a couple has for each other. A love of God. A love of friends and family. Even the love a pet has for it’s owner. A love that sticks out the most is the love a parent has for their child and vice versa. The famous novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter, David Lawrence, wrote the short story “The Rocking Horse Winner”, which digs deeper in the concept of love. The narrative begins with a mother, Hester, who is struggling with whether she loves her three children. Throughout the story she feels that her family is running out of money, and the only thing she cares about it is being wealthy. She is so crazy about it, that she says the house whispers that they need more money. Her youngest son, Paul, is aware of their house whispering and becomes concerned about the family’s financial situation because his mother explains that only the lucky are rich and their family is very unlucky. Paul wants to show his mom that they are lucky, so he obsessively rides his rocking horse, so he can get to luck. He is so interested in finding the luck his family needs, that he talks to the gardener, Bassett, about different types of horses and thereafter bets on horse racing. It turns out Paul
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