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* “Rocking Horse Winner”
- “There must be more money” major conflict
- 1st paragraph = describing about mother’s appearance
- “Where are you going?”; “Where I wanted to go”
- Mother: not productive; ex. “I will se if I can’t make something,” but she did
not know where to begin. wanted to help to gain more money, but did not
success any better
- Father: do nothing worth doing “your father has no luck”
- Rocking horse: Ironic
- What is luck? It is what cause you have money.
- Better born with luck than rich (fortune) 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.”
- “Now take me to where there is luck! Now take me!” fairy tale
- “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.”
Hester = 負面形象的女人; Poor devil

* Joyce Carol Oates
- Middle-Working Class American Author
- Now teaching in Princeton University
- The first one to finish high school
- 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?” (Connie)
- He does not write for money but to express his experiences


* "It’s all one now, baby blue" and "Blowin’ in the wind" 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
* Frenzy + Madly + Furious = Go with anxiety, anger, and energy