this story was about a very poor family, and a boy who wanted so much to have money for his family, or what his mom called "luck." so this boy would ride his lucky rocking horse - and the rocking horse would basically tell him the winner of the derby - and the boy would win so much money.
level 1 what showed that something was wrong wtih the christmas mentioned in the story?
level 2 why was the mom not so happy that she recieved a thousand pounds for her birthday?
level 3 why did the boy die at the end of the story? what was the moral of the story?
i didnt like this story at all. it was completely uninteresting and just carried on and on. it was also confusing. the way the story started was interesting though - i didnt like it so much because it started out really simple - there was a woman. blah blah. and then it switched to there was a boy yadada. right after that i did not know the boy and the woman were related - and then the style of the whole story changed. it wasnt as simple and concrete as the first few paragraphs.
it was just an interesting choice of story - like charactors of the boy and the mom remained constant for the most part - but there were so many other names it felt like - Oscar, Bansha (i forget what it was), the uncle, Daffodil- all these different horses and the boys "partners." And then all of a sudden at the end of the story he died. like what? i mean yea, he won all this money for his mom and still, she did not appreciate it. even if she doesnt know its from him - she does not appreciate the money - the whispers dont go away. and the boy gets so into these races and winning this money that he must have exhausted himself to the point of him dying - the moral of the story being that money isnt everything? that one should not care so much about money? idk i didnt really get it, nor did i like it.
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