The rocking horse winner is a story primarily focusing on the desperate urge of a young boy, Paul to be "lucky" having understood the meaning of the word "luck" in a different and rather a corrupted...
The climax is when Paul's mother comes home to find him furiously rocking back and forth on the rocking horse yelling the name of the horse he believes will win the race and then falls off injuring...
The irony is that Paul finally obtains what he has so long desired, luck and money, but in so doing, he dies. Since it was luck that he was after in the form of picking winning race horses, he very...