Summary and Question Answers - Should Wizard Hit Mommy Video Lecture | English Literature for Grade 12

hi students my name is Ruchika I welcome
you to the English Academy vistas name
of the chapter should visit hit mommy by
John Updike I'll tell you about the
author summary difficult words from the
chapter and important questions
John hire Updike was an American
novelist poet short story writer art
critic and literary critic his book
rabbit is which won the Pulitzer Prize
in 1982 and rabbit at rest won the prize
in 1990 summary in this lesson the
author conveys a very important message
for both the parents and children it
addresses the issue of difference of
attitude towards life which erupts from
the way in which they perceive each
other everyone is right in his own
approach a child has a limited
perception of life's her surrounding is
limited up to her parents teachers and
friends whereas the parents have a wider
perception of life and consider many
issues while interacting with his child
children often misinterpret their
parents attitude and behavior and that
is when the parents become strict with
them this weakens the bonding between
them parents being elders should
understand the feeling of their children
share them and mold them with love this
is a story of a four-year-old girl Joan
whose nickname is Joe and her father
Jack who follow a storytelling custom
every evening and for their Saturday
naps so the stories which jack tells Joe
are variations of the basic tale where a
small creature named
Roger whose last name varies has a
problem for which the wise owl sends him
to the wizard who solves his problem
with his magical powers these stories
have now become useless as Joe no longer
falls asleep listening to them and her
father finds this routine to be very
tiring they have been following this
routine when she was 2 years old and now
she is 4 years old and so probably she
is got bored of this routine the same
stories the same character roger is
repeated every day and so now their
stories have become ineffective on this
particular Saturday in the story Jack
remembers his childhood experiences and
Roger has turned into a skunk that
smelled foul Joe is very curious and
knows that as usual Roger will go to the
owl and in her curiosity she interrupts
her father who gets disturbed by the
child's attitude of taking things for
granted he just wants to put her off to
sleep and get annoyed by her
interrupting questions he is not
concerned about the child's curiosity
her inquisitiveness he fails to create a
bond with his child he does not like the
nature that his daughter is trying to
take things for granted as usual the
skunk's bad smell is cured by the wizard
and now the happy skunk has friends with
whom he plays various games and then run
home to their mommies at this happy
moment the story usually ends and so Joe
assumes it to have ended but Jack does
not like her to assume things he does
not want her to take things for granted
he does not like women who take things
for granted rather he wants her to wait
for him to say that the story is over he
continues the story and to Joe's
disappointment the skunk's mother takes
him back to the wizard
as she is disappointed that the visit
has changed his smell she wants him to
get his own original smell back so she
hits the wizard on the head and forces
him to give little skunk his original
smell back and she wants that that is
the way a skunk should smell little girl
Joe does not want the story to end like
this and so she is sad for the little
skunk her father wants her to realize
that pleasing friends is not so
important that a person must change
himself he wants children must learn to
accept their parents decisions as being
the best for them
Joe is adamant and wants her father to
tell her a new story the next day in
which the visit should hit the mommy
over the head in return but her father
tells her that it is not the way the
story goes because this gunk loves his
mommy more than the other little animals
and she knows what is right for the
little skunk difficult words from the
chapter naps means short afternoon sleep
variation means difference visit is a
man who has magical powers
Supper is an evening meal which is light
and informal fatiguing means tiring
right is a practice futile means useless
sifting is scattered relapsed means
returned to Kirtley means briefly Swamp
is an area of low lying ground filled
with water
clenched means squeezed together
infantile means childish roomy means
watery rummaged means to search
unsystematic Klee smugly is a way of
speaking
showing satisfaction and confidence
failing means to pretend important
questions from the chapter what is the
moral issue that the story raises the
answer is the story raises the moral
issue of
Aaron's approach towards their children
there is a conflict that whether
children should be encouraged to put
forward their fuse and ideas to reason
and to question or be forced to remain
in the shadow of their parents influence
and thoughts Joe questions her father as
to the way to end
stinky skunks story which comes as a
shock to her father he does not
appreciate her thoughts the next
question is what makes Jack feel caught
in an ugly middle position the answer is
Jack is caught in a conflict between his
own upbringing and the way in which he
must interact with his child he has been
an obedient child giving in to his
parents wishes considering them to be
the best for him and enforces this
system upon his daughter also he gets
caught when he sees that the child had
her own views and ideas and does not
give in to his views this disturbs him
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