Essays on Luck Page 2

When you read poems/stories like this you expect to learn something amazing and life changing but with this one I don’t think there’s a huge moral. Just some idiots sailing a boat. It begins with the crew and captain on their boat, they see the bird of luck. They all get super happy and excited,…

The first example of a negative superstition takes place at Hannibal, Missouri when Huck flicks a spider off his shoulder and it gets burned in a candle’s flame. That was a sign of bad luck, so Huck counteracts the bad luck by turning around three times and then he ties a lock of hair with…

How many people have heard their grandparents tell them never to break a mirror? Who remembers the games of elementary school, when children dared each other to run under a ladder? Who really believes in seven years of bad luck? It seems that these trivial sayings have been passed down to each successive generation, only…

It is well known that if you walk under a ladder or break a mirror, you will have bad luck. Is it really bad luck by walking under a ladder? Is it true that if you break a mirror you will have seven years of bad luck? It might be, but it could also depend…

Through reading “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather and “The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H Lawrence, the reader can discern that these stories serve as cautionary tales against materialism and the insatiable desire for all that it brings. Both stories revolve around two protagonists named Paul who find themselves engulfed in the challenging predicament of…