Fatal Catastrophe
Three Messages from the Rocking Horse Winner The story, The Rocking Horse Winner, is about a little boy whose mother wants more money, so he starts to bet of horse racing to give his mother money, and ends with his death. The story begins with a young boy’s mother always saying they are not lucky, that there dad is not lucky. And if it wasn’t for the dad they could be lucky. The young boy says that he is lucky, but the mother does not realize it till it’s too late. Because the boy has a special gift; he can guess the winner of horse racing, and he is almost always correct. In the story, the boy ends up winning a lot of money, and secretly gives the money to his mother, so she can start believing she is lucky. Even though the mother never really appreciates it, she just keeps asking for more and more money. The overall three main messages in the story would be: money can’t buy happiness, parents can often wound their children without trying to, and you can only be lucky for a short period of time. First, would be that money can’t buy happiness. In the beginning of the story the little boy says, “Our house! I hate our house for whispering.” He says this because all he hears …show more content…
The major point when dealing with luck in this story would be that the little boy was the only one really helping in the story. He worked really hard to insure that his mother lived a good life, and had money. Nor his father or mother were lucky and they did not have a lot of money. The little boy was very lucky, he won almost every race he would bet on. Towards the end of the story the little boy began to lose his mind, he was screaming, “Its Malabar! Basset, Basset, I know its Malabar,” when he was riding his wooden rocking horse. The reason he died in the end of the story was because of the same thing, he was riding his rocking horse really fast and screaming, and he ended up falling off of the horse and