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* “Rocking Horse Winner”
            - “There must be more money” à major conflict (母親把希望放在小孩身上)
            - 1st paragraph = describing about mother’s appearance à 作者對母親的依
            賴不能斬斷而產生其他感情因素
            - “Where are you going?”; “Where I wanted to go” à 媽媽對小孩的冷漠導致小
            孩會想要引起媽媽注意，如果到最後都沒有成功，那麼小孩也會變得冷漠
            - Mother: not productive; ex. “I will se if I can’t make something,” but she did
            not know where to begin. à wanted to help to gain more money, but did not
            success any better (卻喜歡嫌棄她的男人)
            - Father: do nothing worth doing à “your father has no luck”
            - Rocking horse: Ironic à 馬一般很會跑但是木馬只會在原地踏步
            - What is luck? It is what cause you have money.
            - Better born with luck than rich (fortune) à if you’re rich, you may lose your
            money, but if you’re lucky, you will always get more money.
            - “He wanted luck, he wanted it, he wanted it.” à 展現出小孩子的執著以及想
　        被媽媽關心的感覺
            - “Now take me to where there is luck! Now take me!” à fairy tale, 像青鳥一
            樣帶來幸運
            - Springs  = 木馬有加彈簧，會前後搖擺像是有聽到別人在說話
            - “My God, Hester, you’re eighty-thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a
　        son to the bad. But, poor devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where
　        he rides his rocking-horse to find a winner.” à 人生勝利組被潑冷水; Hester
　        = 負面形象的女人; Poor devil = 天吶
                                  

* Joyce Carol Oates
            - Middle-Working Class American Author
            - Now teaching in Princeton University
            - The first one to finish high school (靠著文學獎完成雪城大學以及研究所)
            - 曾被提名: Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize
            - 1963 published his first short novel “By the North Gate” and begins his
            career as an author
            - “Where are you going? Where have you been?” à 最常被選擇到文集裡面，
　        靈感來自於青少女的謀殺案 (Connie)
            - He does not write for money but to express his experiences
                                                 

* "It’s all one now, baby blue" and "Blowin’ in the wind" à Bob Dylan


* D.J. = Disk Jockey
* Tedious = too long, slow, or dull
* Rack  = 架子、bicycle rack
* Lucre (英式拼法) = Lucker
* Keep = keep a promise, keep a diary/journal
* Vague (模糊的) vs. Vogue (時尚的)
* Frenzy + Madly + Furious = Go with anxiety, anger, and energy