Off The Rocking Horse Winner Essay

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Off The Rocking Horse (An analysis of the text “Rocking Horse Winner”) In a perfect family, every single member is one hundred percent happy. The parents are perfect together, the child is always smiling and the perfect model citizen, even the dog is a prim and proper specimen. This statement couldn’t be more false. It is nearly impossible to have a perfect family full of bubbles, rainbows, and happiness. Take the text “Rocking Horse Winner”, for example. What may seem to be a perfectly fine family is actually a pile full of dysfunction. That dysfunction may cost a child his or her life. Parents don’t realize that they may hurt their children every day with little things they do that they don’t realize. Taken from the text, “Rocking Horse Winner”, by D.H. Lawrence, there are three basic ways that parents unintentionally hurt or abuse their children. The first way parents unintentionally abuse their children is by things that they might say without realizing what it means to the child. In the story, “Rocking Horse Winner”, Paul’s mother speaks constantly about how there is not enough money and how Paul’s father has no luck. This sparks something in Paul’s imagination: A voice that eventually drives him to madness. All Paul hears is something whispered in …show more content…

When Paul is silently begging for attention by his luck, his mother ignores it and continues to plead to the heavens for more money. Even his last words are him silently begging her to realize that he was lucky after all, unlike his father. Parents do not realize that when they don't recognize achievements and qualities of their kids, it really hurts them. Or if they recognize that, but not let the child know that; which can lead the child to going far beyond what they can to try to show off how amazing they are with nothing in return. Like Paul, sometimes struggling for acceptance and recognition goes to far, and ends in the worst

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