In my essay, I will be writing mainly about Keawe and Paul as they are the main characters in the stories; 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Rocking Horse Winner'.

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Faheem Abdul-Haziz        

‘The Bottle Imp’ and

‘The Rocking Horse Winner’

Introduction:

In my essay, I will be writing mainly about Keawe and Paul as they are the main characters in the stories; ‘The Bottle Imp’ and ‘The Rocking Horse Winner’. I will be writing if the characters in either story are moral/immoral and what impression the reader got of them. I will also be writing about the moral standards of the characters and what happen to them at the end of the story.

 You should know that these two stories are fables although they do have a moral in the stories. Both of the stories are about greed, the love for money and evil. Also both of the main character’s at he end of each story die at the end.

The author of ‘The Bottle Imp’ is Robert Louis Stephenson and the author of ‘The Rocking Horse Winner’ is D.H Lawrence. I will also be writing about the message and overall moral of the stories the author’s are trying to put across.

Keawe:

At the beginning of ‘The Bottle Imp’, Keawe had nothing but was in search of something. When he was in San Francisco, he got tricked into buying a bottle from an old man who claimed that the bottle had magical powers. He tests the bottle’s powers and then shows it to his friend Lopaka. He then makes a wish for a house just like his uncle and cousin’s and gets the house at the loss of his uncle and cousin’s lives. After making the Imp appear before him, he then sells the bottle to his friend Lopaka. Keawe then meets a girl named Kokua and she accepts his offer of marriage. Keawe marries Kokua yet he is unhappy due to the fact that he is now in possession of the bottle yet again. He now discovers that he has leprosy and is soon going to die.

 In the story, Keawe is a good, moral character in the story although his slight greediness at the beginning when first in possession of the bottle. The other point was that he didn’t tell Kokua whom he really was until after they were married because he thought that Kokua would not accept his offer of marriage if he did.

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I think that Keawe deserved to live at the end and he was cured of leprosy but he deserved to live with Kokua because he was in love with her.

Kokua:

Kokua first came across in the story when Keawe noticed her when walking along the beach one day. He did not tell Kokua straight away who he was because he thought that if he told her who he really was then she may have heard of him and not have given him a true answer to a question he had asked her. She came across to Keawe as ...

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