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I'm writing about the little boy, Paul, in the short story "Rocking Horse Winner." Paul is a young boy with a big imagination and the curiosity of a young child. I believe in this story he is driven to do what he does by a number of things. The first thing I feel drives him is that his mother doesn't seem to care for her children as much as she should, and Paul believes if he became lucky then his mother might care about him more. Another driving force of this character is that his mother tells him that their family is unlucky because they are the poorest members of the entire family. The last and final reason this character does what he does is he doesn't want the house to continue to whisper, "there must be more money, there must be more money!" and if he gets money it might stop.
Paul is a young man with a great imagination. You can see signs of his imagination in the story in several instances. The first place his great imagination shows up is when he rides his rocking......

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