The_Power_Of_Luck

The Power Of Luck The Power of Luck Luck is what everybody wishes for; without luck, life is harder to run and can never be as glamorous as it would be if you had luck. Money can appear through gambling if you have luck, even the happiness of meeting “the one” is luck. Luck can only change people’s destinies for the better--or can it be fatal' In “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” striving for luck controls an entire family‘s schema, some convinced of being born without it, and another “knowing” that he has it. D.H. Lawrence’s protagonist, Paul, is a little boy who can prove his mother wrong and establish that he really does have luck. Through a series of related incidents in the plot, Lawrence illustrates his theme that the lack of luck is the lack of life. The power of luck is greatly demonstrated by Master Paul. He spies on his mother, who leads an unlucky life, seeing what “failure [can do, to] make deep lines come into her face” (200). This shows aging and success is never near. His father “had good prospects… [although] his prospects never materialized” (200). Material things will only come side by side along with luck. The boy luck, paul, life, horse, rocking-horse, mother, house, without, voices, thousand, pounds, know, even, being, after, win, success, ride, place, paul’s, once, never, money, lack, boy, bet, uncle, through, take, race, over, out, needed, must, malabar