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A child will do anything to be loved by their parents, even if it means sacrificing themselves for the love they always wanted.

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So here is some evidence that Paul knew that her mom didn't love her children, not even himself, "Everybody else said of her: "She is such a good mother. She really loves her children." Only herself, and her children themselves, knew it was not so. They read it in each others eyes." So here you can see that people think they love each other but, in reality the children and herself know that she doesn't love them.

In the story Paul's wins a good amount of money by betting and later on tells why he started betting for money, " Of course, said the boy, I started for it mother. She said she had no luck, because father is unlucky. " So here Paul is mentioning how that he started betting for her mother because if he is winning all the money from betting, that would make Paul lucky and so because of that her mother maybe would be proud of him or have a bit a care for him. Also he wanted to help her mother with the money problems. You could how Paul really cares for her mother.

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Irony in the story, is how after the mom started to know that his son Paul was into betting and she started to be worried about him, even though she doesn't know why was he into it, " His mother started to really worry about him". It's pretty ironic that her mother is worried about Paul because we didn't expect for a mother that doesn't love her children, to start to worry. So, its situational irony.

Symbolism in the story was when Paul was so desperate for betting on the last race of horses and winning money so, what he did was that he rocked on the horse so hard because the horse was his luck. After rocking on the horse for a long time he fell and his mother took him to the hospital, "His eyes were like blue stones and his mother sat beside him, feeling that her heart had also turn into a stone". So here the author is expressing how Paul's eyes were turned into stone, like if his luck had run out or his desperate feeling for earning more money for her mother has been accomplished. Later that night Paul died, and you can see how he even out did himself for winning. Maybe he was just trying to show his mother that he was lucky or just wanted to be loved by her, if her mother knew that he was lucky.