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Q2. Show how the poem Tom Beatty could be compared to The Rocking Horse Winner. In studying the poem, note that the opera house is really life and when He makes the rules it’s either the Lord or perhaps the devil. Beatty suggests that everyone has about 70 years, but Paul in The Rocking Horse Winner had much less time. Explain what Paul’s weakness was, how the cards were stacked against him and do you think Paul was lucky not to live to be an old man fumbling the cards, leaden-eyed and whining about his losses?
Paul’s weakness is his addiction to gambling race horses. His life started revolving around horse racing gambling and was obsessed with two things-horse racing and gambling.
The cards stacking against him are a figurative term showing difficulties that gambling brought him. It shows how gambling will never benefit you.
Paul was lucky to have died earlier in his life in this instance.If he had lived longer, his gambling addiction would have developed and become even greater such that he would cause people around him- friends, parents, relatives to be worred due to him. Even during his child years, he was causing his parents to be worried. If he had lived longer, it would be easy to imagine how worried they would be after his gambling addiction increased. Eventually, he will realise that he had lived a disappointing life.
2. In The Green Clothes, green is the color of envy, greed and money! This poem is thematically similar to Paper. Even though the poem takes place at a roulette wheel the gamblers from the short story and the poem have similar experiences. Explain how tips, dry lips, and all that was spent in vain could apply to the short story Paper.
Tay soon and yee lian spend all in vain in the story paper. The whole story was about how tay soon and yee lian wanted a grand house. Tay Soon and Yee Lian gambled in the stock market with all they got. They became addicted to the stock market.In the end, they lost all their money and everthing was spent in vain.Also, Tay soon got so sad that he eventually died .
3. Ah Boh in Lottery has about one dollar, there’s a “blind man,” the number 13 and ultimately zero dollars to bet. These last examples are taken from One-Dollar Gambler. Show how they also relate to Ah Boh.
In the whole story, Ah Boh could not realise her mistakes and was like literally blind to wards her mistakes. Even when her mother her died, she still continued wasting her life on gambling and did not change. She was obsessed with finding lucky numbers so that she can win the lottery , even resorting to copying number from a car in an accident. In the end, she lost everything, her money, her life and her family due to gambling.
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Lesson 5
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Q2. Show how the poem Tom Beatty could be compared to The Rocking Horse Winner. In studying the poem, note that the opera house is really life and when He makes the rules it’s either the Lord or perhaps the devil. Beatty suggests that everyone has about 70 years, but Paul in The Rocking Horse Winner had much less time. Explain what Paul’s weakness was, how the cards were stacked against him and do you think Paul was lucky not to live to be an old man fumbling the cards, leaden-eyed and whining about his losses?
Paul’s weakness is his addiction to gambling race horses. His life started revolving around horse racing gambling and was obsessed with two things-horse racing and gambling.
The cards stacking against him are a figurative term showing difficulties that gambling brought him. It shows how gambling will never benefit you.
Paul was lucky to have died earlier in his life in this instance.If he had lived longer, his gambling addiction would have developed and become even greater such that he would cause people around him- friends, parents, relatives to be worred due to him. Even during his child years, he was causing his parents to be worried. If he had lived longer, it would be easy to imagine how worried they would be after his gambling addiction increased. Eventually, he will realise that he had lived a disappointing life.
2. In The Green Clothes, green is the color of envy, greed and money! This poem is thematically similar to Paper. Even though the poem takes place at a roulette wheel the gamblers from the short story and the poem have similar experiences. Explain how tips, dry lips, and all that was spent in vain could apply to the short story Paper.
Tay soon and yee lian spend all in vain in the story paper. The whole story was about how tay soon and yee lian wanted a grand house. Tay Soon and Yee Lian gambled in the stock market with all they got. They became addicted to the stock market.In the end, they lost all their money and everthing was spent in vain.Also, Tay soon got so sad that he eventually died .
3. Ah Boh in Lottery has about one dollar, there’s a “blind man,” the number 13 and ultimately zero dollars to bet. These last examples are taken from One-Dollar Gambler. Show how they also relate to Ah Boh.
In the whole story, Ah Boh could not realise her mistakes and was like literally blind to wards her mistakes. Even when her mother her died, she still continued wasting her life on gambling and did not change. She was obsessed with finding lucky numbers so that she can win the lottery , even resorting to copying number from a car in an accident. In the end, she lost everything, her money, her life and her family due to gambling.
