Discuss some problem-questions.

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The Rocking-Horse Winner

Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impression of it.

The message of the story

The theme of the story

Say if you agree or disagree with the following observation of Mr Doran.

"Once you are married you are done for." (15)

4. Which of the following phrases could be said to be:

A way to get your daughter off your hands.

As the tree, so the fruit - like mother, like daughter.

The survival of the fittest.

It's most advisable to try and right the wrong in time. Nothing venture nothing won.

If you cannot have the best make the best of what you have.

1. Does the family described in the story seem to you a typical English middle-class family or not and why?

2. Why was the boy so anxious to believe that he was lucky? Did he hope to change his mother's mood and her attitude to the children?

3. Why was it racing that the boy became so much interested

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4. What role did Uncle Oscar play in the life of the little boy? Why did not he put an end to Paul's betting as soon as he noticed something uncanny about the boy?

5. Does the situation described in the story seem quite probable or entirely improbable to you? Do the elements of extraordinary emphasize something quite ordinary or quite realistic?

6. What made the mother keep the news about her unusual birthday present all to herself?

7. What do "the voices in the house", the whispering stand as a symbol of?

8. What was it that brought on Paul's brain-fever? What was the true cause of his death?