Too Much Pride Can Kill.

person in the family relationship. However they did not treat kids like Paul and Doodle wisely. They just care about what they wanted.

4. Too Much Pride Can Kill.

In The Rocking Horse Winner, the writer can see that after discussing about luck with his mother, Paul has faith. He encourages himself to find out luck and make himself as a lucky person. His self-confident increases when he involved himself in a rocking-horse race. Then he told to his mother that he is a lucky boy as in the quotation below: Well, anyhow, he said stoutly, Im a lucky person. Why? said his mother, with a sudden laugh. He stared at her. He didnt even know why he had said it. God told me, he asserted, brazening it out. I hope He did, dear, she said, again with a laugh, but rather bitter. He did, mother Excellent said the mother. After that he determined and worked hard to prove to his mother that he is a lucky boy indeed. After seeking inwardly for luck, he finally found his luck with doing gambling in rocking horse race. He always found his victory. The money he resulted directly he gave it to his mother without her knowledge. Actually what ever he did, he did it to get her mother’s love and compassion. However, before getting what he wanted, he was very exhausted in forcing himself to find out the next winner of rocking horse race until caused him death. Even until his death, his mother ignores his luck as in below quotation: “In his green pajamas, madly surging on the rocking-horse. The blaze of light suddenly lit him up, as he urged the wooden horse, and lit her up, as she stood, blonde, in her dress of pale green and crystal, in the doorway.” Its Malabar he screamed in a powerful, strange voice. Its Malabar His eyes blazed at her for one strange and senseless second, as he ceased urging his wooden horse. Then he fell with a crash to the ground, and she, all her tormented motherhood flooding upon her, rushed to gather him up. I never told you, Mother, that if I can ride my horse, and get there, then Im absolutely sure—oh, absolutely Mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky No, you never did, said the mother. But the boy died in the night It all proves that Paul who is too proud of himself for making money for his mother by gaining luck in a race got an accident that make him look foolish that he dead by surging on the rocking-horse to find out the winner of the race. He won the money but he should pay it with his life. He got the luck but he did not get what he wanted from his mother; love. In The Scarlet Ibis, Doodle’s brother is the character who is too proud of himself in making his cripple brother to be able to walk. However, at one moment, something had happened that make him look foolish. It is when Doodle cried for help and cried his name in his dying moment. He desired his brother to help him. However, he ignored the voice of his own brother. His ignorance caused his brother died because the immediate aid was not done by him. All that is in his head is how to increase his pride not how to maintain his cripple brother’s health. So that, it made him look foolish because his brother even died because of his desire to more increase his own pride. Doodle’s brother feels useless with what he had taught to Doodle. As the quotation below: . . . I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death . . . Occasionally I too became discouraged because it didn’t seem as if he was trying, and I would say, Doodle, don’t you want to learn to walk? Once I had succeeded in teaching Doodle to walk, I began to believe in my own infallibility and I prepared a terrific development program for him, unknown to Mama and Daddy, of course. I would teach him to run, to swim, to climb trees, and to fight. He, too, now believed in my infallibility, so we set the deadline for these accomplishments less than a year away, when, it had been decided, Doodle could start to school. In both stories, too much having pride could bring damage even more it could bring death. As it was discussed above, both characters who have to accept the damage of pride are Paul and Doodle’s brother. Paul has to lose his own life and Brother has to lose his brother’s life.

B. The Different of Themes of “The Rocking Horse Winner” and in “The Scarlet Ibis”