Rocking Horse Winner

Lucky. That’s what this whole story is about, being lucky. It seemed that to be successful in this society you had to have a certain amount of luck about you to be able to make money to survive. Paul seemed to be the first to realize it when he asked his mother "why don’t we keep a car of our own? Why do we always use Uncle’s, or else a taxi?" When …

…having been able to enjoy the eighty thousand pounds that he had won for being "lucky." As you can see, the recurring theme in this story was luck, a thing some people call a gift but in this case it ended up being a curse. Paul did prove to his mother that you could find luck but what he did not realize then was that there would be a terrible price to pay for it.