Name Date - Class Period _ The Rocking-Horse Winner Analysis Questions Directions: Read "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and respond to the questions below on a separate sheet of paper. Structure: how does the way the story is told change its meaning

Although the short story presents several moments of perseverance, the way it is told changes the meaning of the narrative, showing that money does not always bring happiness and sometimes more money causes more problems.

Explanation:

In summary, we can say that "The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a short story about a family that has serious financial problems. To try to control these problems, one of the family members keeps placing bets on horse racing and when he wins, he manages to help his mother with the finances. However, money creates more financial problems and, causing the boy to persist in betting on horse racing, even though he is unable to solve his family's problems.

In this way, we can say that the short story could talk about perseverance, but the way it is told shows a story about exacerbated consumerism, which makes the more money someone earns, the more problems and unhappiness that person receives.

the words "strangest" and "unusual" suggest (: