Gist of the Lesson
The chapter captures a very sensitive reaction of a small girl to an important aspect of the story that her father narrates to her.
The story reveals the worldview of a little child to a mental or psychological richness. difficult moral question that shows her
Jo is a little girl of four years. She is engaged in a story session with her father.
Jack, the father used to tell her a story every evening and especially for Saturday naps.
Jo feels herself involved with the characters and the happenings.
The story always had an animal with a problem. The old owl advises him to visit the wizard who would solve the problem.
Skunk’s problem- he smelt bad, visited the wizard who changed it to the smell of roses.
Skunk’s mother was unhappy with it and took him back to the wizard. She hit the wizard and asked him to restore the original smell. She wanted her son to keep his identity of a skunk and wanted his friends to accept him for himself. So the wizard changes him back to smell like a skunk.
After hearing the story of Roger Skunk Jo was not happy with the ending.
She wants her father to change the ending. She wants the wizard to hit the mother back and let Roger be which her father was not ready to do to establish his authority. This raises a difficult moral question whether parents possess the right to impose their will on their children.
Her father finds it difficult to answer her question.
SOLVED QUESTIONS
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
that of a child’s 1. Why an adult’s perspective of life is different from as given in the story? Suggested Value points
An adult’s perceptive on life is always different maturity of a person becomes his barometer to judge right & wrong. For him/her everything that occurs has a message. In the story, Jack at no level accepts Jo’s worldview that wizard should hit Mommy.
On the other hand a child’s perceptive is limited to his activities child’s perceptive completely different they love ‘action’ more than thought so does Jo in the story she would delight in hearing the story of Roger Skunk’s Mommy being hit by the wizard.
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
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