D. H. Lawrence's The Rocking-Horse Winner

A Child’s Love
(An analysis of three messages from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner”) How much effort does one need to take to feel included, popular, or accepted? Human nature is very interesting when it comes to social problems. Like water, food, shelter, love is something that people rely on in order to survive, and the animal we are we try our best to survive at all costs. But to what extent to we push the boundaries to feel loved or included? For instance, students in high school will buy all of these expensive clothes in order to “fit in” with other students. Worse than that, people could start consuming drugs and alcohol in order to feel included with their peers. Even worse than that, people can start developing eating disorders,

Lawrence’s short story, The Rocking-Horse Winner, is that greed causes many problems for anybody. For many years greed has been a major issue and if has changed the lives of many people. For instance, the king of England, King George III would tax the colonies more money so that they can have more wealth in his pocket. Well, eventually these colonists revolted causing the Revolutionary War, and not only did it create a new independent country, but many deaths as well. About 8,000 people died, plus an extra 25,000 more that were wounded because of one greedy person. Even in religion, there was a famous expression priests would say, “Greed is the root of all evil.” Thanks to the greed of the mother, there were financial circumstances that caused the father to try to gamble his way into some money so that he may financially support his family. One day Paul was wondering why they don’t have a car of their own, and that they have to use a taxi or borrow another relative’s vehicle. The mother states that his father is clearly not lucky enough, and Paul asks what luck was about. She says, “It’s what causes you to have money. If you’re luck you have money. That’s why it’s better to be born lucky that rich. If you’re rich, you may lose your money. But if you’re lucky, you will always get more money.” Eventually Paul gets her more money, only on her birthday, but she demands for more. Eventually all of the effort of Paul will cause him to break