Jeff’s AP Blog

The main symbols in the story were the rocking-horse(of course) and money. The rocking-horse in which he rides for luck, is a childs toy that he has more than outgrown when he is older. But he of course keeps on riding it for luck and to help his home or mother because they need more money and they have no luck to get money, so the boy finally being the lucky one in their family gets money for them. The money is also important because it represents greed. Both the mother and father were brought up in very expensive households having all the things that they wanted, which caused them to have expensive taste when they were old, and so they were always short on money because as Paul’s mom said that money is made when people are lucky and they have no luck, which meant they weren’t makin money. Basically the allegorical part of the story was the fact that riding the horse gave him lucky, which in turn got him money. In the story the rocking-horse and his riding it were from fantasy and it represented a vehicle that road him to luck although it went nowhere at all.

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