Taking Chances

The Rocking Horse Winner When a person is lucky, it does not have to mean that they are fortunate with money. Luck is the chance for things to go the way you want them to go with out having any control over the situation. In The Rocking Horse Winner, Hester, the mother seems to believe that luck is strictly having money, and when there is no money, there is no luck. Hester's idea of luck meaning money brings forth the two ideas of greed and death throughout the story. Money plays a huge

Comparison and Contrast of “The Destructors”, by Graham Greene and “The Rocking Horse Winner”, by D.H. Lawrence This comparison and contrast of “The Destructors”, by Graham Greene and “The Rocking Horse Winner”, by D.H. Lawrence will center on selected parts of stories from the opening through the conclusion. I will seek to compare and contrast both authors’ choices of characters, themes, techniques of suspense, moral statements, and conclusions. “The Destructors” and “The Rocking Horse Winner”

but things don 't go right for me. I 'm not one of the lucky ones!’” The Basic Ideas of Science of Mind, pg. 65 You are one of the lucky ones, even if you were betting on a different outcome. There is no reason to deny the existence of luck, chance, randomness and possibility in our infinite universe. There is good reason to not rely on it, bet on it, blame it for our failures or attribute our success to luck. Luck is not the hand of fate or any such controlling influence in life. Luck is not

The Chance to have good or bad Luck. There are times in life that we attribute good luck to our hard work, dedication or talent but there are some other times when we can say that luck is just a chance that we get. As we can see on the work of this two authors James H. Austin the author of “Four kinds of chance” published in Saturday Review and Robert H. Frank author of “why luck matters much more than you think” published in The Atlantic (May 2016) they show the reader how chances can influence

Gabriel, Cullen, and Cabot Searcy’s lives are all eventually tied together because of a missionary named Benton Sage. Cullen Witter also experiences the feeling of loss in the form of love and second chances. This story shows that hope and finding one’s faith can all come together for one last chance. Whaley uses a metaphor in Where Things Come Back to explain Cullen’s loss of his cousin Oslo. It states, “Nothing idealistic about seeing your only cousin ghost white and stone dead.” It is a metaphor

Martin Luther King Jr. worked diligently to get equal rights, an Olympian trains for years before bringing home the gold, the president wins the election by a narrow vote. What does it take to be as successful as these few examples? The answer depends on the goal at hand. Goals can be as simple as getting out of bed in the morning or as challenging as running a prosperous business. The characteristics of those who are believed to be successful can be found in many different stories, however, the

“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated,” Ernest Hemingway. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea written by the spokesman of this quote, it is truly demonstrated that a man can be destroyed but not defeated through the main character, Santiago. He is an older man who loves to fish and devotes most of his time to fishing. Unfortunately, he had not brought back a fish in over eighty days. This occurrence lead to his pupil Manolin’s parents not allowing their son to fish

The old man and the sea “But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” “Pain does not matter to a man.” These quotes are from the old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway. The novel tells the story of the old man going out to sea leaving the boy behind. He lost the marlin by a swarm of sharks and returned home with nothing but the bones from the marlin. This story shows what truly defines failure and defeat. The novel shows that failure is defined by not completing

The Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal once said, “I was always lucky in my bad luck”. The luck Louie had in the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand connects with Hrabal’s quote when Louie and his two friends Mac and Phil survive a brutal plane crash during World War II, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The crew must survive if they want to see their families and friends. With some luck will Louie help these men be reunited with their old lives? At the beginning of Louie’s life, his delinquent

responsibility to eventually pay for the consequences that may be entitled to the action. Owning up to a mistake or taking full responsibility has become something pushed aside in society. Yet, there is no getting away from earth eventually taking its toll. The characters in the story of Rocking Horse learn this lesson as they eventually learn the dangers of the field that they were not taking responsibility in. In D.H. Lawrence’s Rocking Horse, three main messages found include economic principles, dealings