After reading this poem I could realize how important could be a mother to her child. In this case Paul was so concerned about the money problems his mother had that the only thing he wanted was helping her. Suddenly, he discovered that he could get some money with lucky so rides his little rocking-horse and figured out that it gave him the name of the winner horse in the races. He was so preoccupied about getting more and more money that he forgot about everything in his life and started riding the horse so fast and constantly that he got very ill and dies.
I believe that he wanted to help her mother so badly and replace the lack of a paternal image that he believe he was the provider of the family. I really don’t understand how a mother can permit a situation like this. It is supposed that a mother must provide and pay attention to every single need the child could have, but in these case was the other way around. The only consequence this situation causes was the child death, the mother changes money for the life of her own son.
I enjoyed reading this short story, but it has a lot of negative aspects of life. I think it is good to learn about your mistake and thinks that money is not everything in life. Money can help you to be happy but you can't buy happiness with it.
1 comment:
I totally agree with you Karen when you mention the importance of mother`s roles in children`s life. Mother is the one who is always taking care of her children, and trying to guide them in the right way of life. In this case it was easy to see how money can influence on the relationship between a mother and her son. I strongly believe that even though a son will want to do anything in order to help his mother, this was not the right way of doing it.
Besides, I can say that as you mentioned in your comment "The Rocking Horse Winner" a lot of negative aspects but I believe that those aspects can help you to teach that money is not everything in life. That maybe you can be millionaire but if you are not happy, money will not facilitate you to find happyness.
Karen, I think that you wrote very interesting aspects that called my attention, for example the way in which you start the post, and then you showed that everything changed and at the end mother`s love had changed and then she did not care about what his son was suffering.
Furthermore, in today`s world I consider crucial to remember the real mother`s role. Understanding that children are to take care of them and to teach them what is right or wrong and not to sacrifice them taking advantage about what they can do.
Karen you wrote very interesting ideas and thoughts about the short story, great job!
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