The Force of Luck

Reader’s Response

Title: The Force of Luck

Genre: Fantasy

Student’s Name: Beatriz Zambrano Serrano

Pages: 845-852

1.    Identify and explain the meaning of a symbol in a complete sentence.

The money represents bad luck and the lead represents good luck.

2.    State the theme and defend it in a paragraph.

The theme if the story is that luck is more important than money. If you have a lot of money, but bad luck, there are a lot of different ways you can lose the money.

3.    Describe the main internal and external conflict.

The main internal conflict is that the wealthy men didn’t know what was better, luck and money. They sure know it after the poor mild experienced that a piece of lead was better than four hundred dollars. The main external conflict is that a hawk took the farmer’s money. His wife also lost the money by trading it with their neighbors. However, the farmer got the money back in a force of luck.

4.    Compare the lesson learned in the story to a similar lesson you or someone you know has experienced.

My uncle Jose didn’t have a lot of money, but he still bet in a horse raise many years ago. He thought that his horse was the best, however the odds weren’t in his favors because there were a lot of rich men that had wealthy horses. He bet a hundred euros that his horse would win, everybody laughed at him. The richest men in the raise bet a thousand euros that his horse would win, and nor my uncle’s. Well, because of luck my uncle’s horse won and my uncle got super rich because he got all the money that the rich men had bet. So, sometimes luck is better than money.

5.    Compare the symbols in the story to a similar symbol in your life, or someone you know.

Nowadays, the symbol of greediness is money, and greediness is bad. I am not saying that money is bad, but sometimes is just not what you need. A lot of people wear a talisman or a good luck charm, however not everybody believes in good, and bad luck.

6.    Compare the struggle in the story to a similar struggle you or someone you know has experienced.

In Spain when I was in second grade, we had a huge final test in Spanish Class. I couldn’t study because I was sick and had a forty degrees fever. But, I was really lucky and I got a ninety seven percent in my test!