Short and Long Questions & Answers - Should Wizard Hit Mommy? | English Class 12 PDF Download

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Q1: What is the moral issue that the story raises?
Ans: The moral issue raised by the story is that whether it is right on parents’ part to force their children to believe in everything they are told by their parents. In this case, the father just wants his daughter to believe that whatever is being told to her is right and that she shouldn’t be inquisitive about things.

Q2: How does Jo want the story to end and why?
Ans: Jo wants the story to end with the wizard beating up the mommie skunk and not changing back the smell of Roger skunk from roses to his original foul smell because she thinks that it is stupid on part of the mommie skunk that she doesn’t care about whether Roger skunk has friends to play or not but just wants that he should smell the way a little baby skunk smells.

Q3: Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard who was hit and not the mother?
Ans: He insisted on this ending to emphasize the concern of the parents because he thought that the parents always know what is best for their child. They always do everything out of concern. He starts to justify the action of Roger’s mother of getting his foul smell restored by saying that the mother knew what was right for him and that Roger skunk loved his mommy so much that he took his mother to the wizard at once without hesitating.

Q4: What makes Jack feel caught in an ugly middle position?
Ans: Jack had started his story and Jo was not feeling sleepy due to which she kept on asking questions and he had to extend the story a bit. Also, as he heard the sounds of chairs and furniture being moved downstairs, he wanted to finish the story quickly and go help his wife with the painting work as she was 6 months pregnant. When he finally finished the story, he was very tired due to which he went down and sat, watching his wife doing all the painting work. He got so exhausted from the story session that he did not have the energy to help her, talk to her or touch her. That is why Jack says that he was caught in an ugly middle position.

Q5: Why an adult’s perspective of life is different from that of a child’s as given in the story?
Ans: 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.