The horses are kicking, jumping, bucking, frightened by the loud pop of the fireworks and woohing of the crowd. A black broncho had fallen rolling in fear on the hard and cold ground. A beautiful white mustang is rearing up, fighting the restraint of a lead rope clutched tightly in two cowboys’ hands. They try vigorously to escape the hands of the cowboys. A thick cloud of dust surrounds them, flying up in their eyes, blinding them from their vicinity. This was Jack's chance, his chance to win. It is the 4th of July, 1935 and the Wild Horse Race is taking place. Each man wanting the same thing, victory. Being in such depressing times they all need a little boost of spirits in their lives. This was a way of showing that they would not let the times they were in get the best of them. Men from all over the county came to compete in this race. The cash prize was small, but in their position everything counted to them.
Jack had heard about this wild horse race and he knew about the cash prize. Back at home it was only his wife, 3 year old daughter, and himself. He spent everyday working in the fields
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attending to his failing crops that he so desperately needed to support his family. One day while working in the piercing hot sun one of the people working with him mentioned the wild horse race. Jack made the decision to go to compete. Jack had no idea what was coming at him. More than 250,000 people came to compete for the $1,400 cash prize. That was enough to maintain his family for hundreds of years he thought to himself. The gate was swamped with men of all ages. Whether it was a fifteen year old boy or a sixty year old man, everyone was there for victory. Jack was prepared, he had ridden all his life and knew a thing or two about wild horses. After entering Jack waited for his turn. “Riders 736 through 740, please make your way to the arena” he heard. This was his chance to make his family proud and to pay back all his debts. He made his way nervously to the arena and hoped for the best. He stepped on to the wooden steps to get to the top of the shoot, he was sweating with fear and adrenaline.
He stepped down on to the palomino that flourished with anger. There was a lot of hollering with excitement in the crowd. He looked around and saw his darling wife and baby girl. Seeing their faces seemed to calm him down and he knew that it would work out all in the best of ways. When the buzzer rings the gates sling open and all the men on the horses start to fling around. Jack shouts “yeehaw” in excitement as the mustang he rode leapt in the air, attempting to fling him off it's back. Only a few of the men remained on their horses now. Many of the defeated cowboys jump in to assist in the attempt to control the enraged horses. About midway through the race he realized that there was only three other guys on horses and the rest were trying to control the
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John is a cowboy and as with all cowboys, their lives all revolve around the horse. While he is at home at his grandfath...
The setting in the stories The Lottery and The Rocking-Horse Winner create an atmosphere where the readers can be easily drawn in by the contrasting features of each short story. This short essay will tell of very important contrasting aspects of settings in that while both stories are different, both hold the same aspects.
time to have fun and roll a large boulder off the edge to watch it be
“Hay for the Horses” is about a farmer delivering hay for the horses. Gary Snyder starts out by describing the farmer’s dangerous ride through the mountains and how itchy they are from the hay dust in the sweaty shirt and shoes. During lunch time the farmer sits under black oak with the same lunch. There, while he eats his lunch, he says he is sixty-eight and he had first bucked hay when he was seventeen. And the day he started, he said, “I would hate to do this for rest of his life,” yet he has gone and done it. This represents many people today, because many people don’t follow what
The opening paragraphs of the story contain a light and carefree tone with phrases such as, “The morning… was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day” (1) and “the children assembled first…they broke into boisterous play” (1). Jackson does not lead the reader to think that the anything sinister is going to occur. However once the narration moves from the children to the adults the first hint of something other than lighthearted small town excitement is perceived; “The men… stood together…their jokes were quiet, and they smiled rather than laughed” (2). The story proceeds to give some backstory on the lottery unless Mr. Summers gets ready to begin and “A sudden hush fell on the crowd” (3), at the point the reader is more than a little dubious that the lottery is something one wants to win. As Mr. Summers begins the crowd is described as “quiet”, “not looking around”, and “grave”, the subtle change in tone as the names continue to be drawn creates a mounting sense of apprehension until Mr. Summers calls the last time and there is “a long pause...
In times of difficulty, changes are bound to occur. In the case of The Lord of the Flies, the term difficulty is more than an understatement. The boys are thrown into life on an unknown island, and it is survival of the fittest. They have to fight to obtain food, shelter and safety on the island, and there is a constant struggle for power. Two boys, in particular, are struggling the most in said power battle. Jack and Ralph, the leaders of the two groups on the island. Though the boys are very different, they do have a handful of things in common, a main thing being that they both go through various changes in character throughout the course of the plot. Ralph evolves from being the leader of many to the leader of few. Jack, on the other hand, becomes a leader after abandoning being a follower.
Watkins, Daniel P. "Labor and Religion in D. H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking-Horse Winner'" Studies in Short Fiction; Summer 87 24.3 (1987): 295-301. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 May 2014.
In the short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” author D.H. Lawrence presents the main character Paul to be going through a tragic situation. Paul begins to believe that he is lucky after riding his rocking horse and predicting the racehorse winner after coming out of his trance. Being that both his mother and father have a small income when they come to realize he has a special gift they take advantage of it. Paul went to a lot of Derby Stakes races with his Uncle Oscar and every race he won. Once he made the big win all the riding of his rocking horse lead to Paul’s unexpected death. Paul made a statement to his mom saying he was a lucky person because God told him after his mom told him “That’s why its better to be born lucky than rich. If
In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding characters Jack and Ralph are stranded on a island. They both are very strong headed, and have many different views about what should happen. This causes the two boys to clash and bicker about things.
“All the Pretty Horses”, a novel written by Cormac McCarthy tells the tale about a man and his friend travelling the plains of Mexico after leaving their homes in Texas. As the novel’s name alludes to, horses are a central theme in the story as they represent manhood and freedom when John Grady, the protagonist, and his friend Rawlins get thrown in jail. McCarthy’s novel became critically-acclaimed which gained him more recognition, as well as a movie adaptation directed by Billy Bob Thornton. Even though Thornton’s adaption has the basics of the novel’s story it does not appropriately grasps its depth. While Thornton’s version stays faithful to the dialogue from the book’s included scenes it does fall short by having an erratic pace, having
In every story, there will be an antagonist, and no one fits this role quite as well as Jack in the Lord of the Flies by William Golding. While many flock with Jack in the story, Jack benefits off of the simple access of free speech by not being kind to other boys, by exhibiting violence, and using a mob mentality. Throughout the story, Jack continually gets more and more mentally abusive to the other kids for not following the exact orders that he gives. Jack strongly dislikes Piggy, and when Piggy rises to express concern about Jack's potential plans, Jack exclaims that Piggy is “always scared” and continues to call him a “Fatty" (Golding 43). Jack uses his unrestricted freedom of speech to intimidate others and make them feel uncomfortable
I chose Jack as the most powerful character because most of the kids follow him and listen to his order. After every hunt, Jack and his group tend to pick on the smallest kid, Jack forced the kid to pretend like he’s a pig and then Jack started to poke him with a spear, this is an example of him showing how powerful he is using physical violence. Jack is also known for using intimidation when Bill asked him, “what will we use to light the fire”, he responded, “we shall take fire from the other” (page 161). In this sentence, he is showing his intimidation by invading Ralph’s property and steal his supplies such as woods, Piggy’s glasses to make his own camp fire. Even though, Jack has a lots of power, he is lack of responsibility, on page
In the novel, Lord of the Flies, Jack's character experiences a great amount of change. In the beginning of the novel, Jack is pictured as an arrogant choirboy that cries after losing the election for leader of the island. Jack gradually transforms into a savage murderer that has no respect for mortal life. Through multiple events, such as leading the choir and leading the hunting tribe, Jack turns from a normal, stubborn schoolboy into a savage monster.
beloved horses. During the fire, the dad realised the horses were locked in the barn and would
A new school year, a new district, a new kid; this spelled the recipe for disaster in one’s social life especially my social life. Leaving all of the memories behind to make space for the new memories to come, be it good, or be it bad. Hawthorne High School, also know as my new environment for the next four years, is where I would have to restart my social life over again. I made the choice to leave for Hawthorne High for the engineering academy, knowing very well none of my friends were coming along with me. With a new school came new friends and new experiences as one might expect, but what nobody told me is that not knowing anyone is a disadvantage when it comes to school. If you have no one to help you out with your homework or your studies, school and work becomes a much more strenuous task. I had to make friends once again and me being a very shy person didn’t help my case.