Should Wizard Hit Mommy?
( John up dike)
Introduction of should wizard hit mommy?
John up dike a novelist, essayist and critic of modern Times discusses and important moral issue in this story should wizard hit mummy? Should check and the story where wizard hits mummy or should we insist on ending the story where Mommy decides how roger should smell?
The story ends with an open and and leaves before the readers a debatable topic —should children be given unrestrained freedom or should there be any parental control on them? Jo’ s world view was limited to her small world of friends but Jack, the father didn’t want his daughter to pick a wrong accident in which wizard be given the freedom to hit mummy.
The story also highlights before us the importance of retaining one’s own identity. Roger’ s mummy knows that a skunk retains its identity in its smell. It is a protective mechanism given by nature to repel its enemies ; hence if the smell is changed it would endanger its own life .
Summary with Explanation (should wizard hit mommy?)
Summary of should wizard hit mommy?
In the evenings and for Saturday naps Jack always told his little daughter Jo a story which he himself would weave. Every time it was a new story about a small creature roger. The basic structure of the story always remained the same and the Jack made little variations to make a new tale. This time Jo demanded from her father that he should tell her story about a small animal called skunk. So Jack narrated the story of ‘ Roger skunk’. The little roger skunk smelt very bad. No other animals in the votes would play with him because of his smell. They teased him and called him ” stinky skunk “. Rojgar was always unhappy and felt hurt lonely and humiliated. Jo felt bad about skunk and felt his pain of being ignored and insulted. That expression on her face showed her pain and restlessness first of Jack felt happy that his story had a roast concerned and curiosity in his daughter.
Jack continue the story. Roga skunk approached the wise old owl told him about his problem and started crying. The wise owl suggested roger to meet the wizard. Roger skunk went to the wizard and ask for his help in getting rid of the bad smell. The wizard chanted some lines . All of a sudden, the stinky skunk smelled like roses. Roger was obviously very happy. The wizard asked for seven pennies but the letter skunk had only four pennies in his pocket. The remaining three penis he got from the end of the lane by magic. Now all the animals were ready to play with roga shank and he was no longer unhappy. When rogee returned home his mother found this strange. She felt offended first or she wanted him to get his original smell back. So she took him straight to the wizard. She hit the wizard on his head and told him to give roger’ s old smell back to him. The wizard did so and roger skunk started smelling his original self. His mother hugged the baby e skunk and was happy that his melt like her son whom she loved very much. Thus, Jack and the story. Jo was upset and didn’t like the way her father and the story. She was furious and calls Roger’s mommy are ” stupid mommy “. She wants that her father should and the story where the wizard hits roger’ s mummy with his magic wand and refused to comply with her order. Jack refuses and puts his daughter to sleep and goes down to help his wife in painting the furniture. He feels tired after his prolonged attempt in putting the baby to sleep. He feels fed up with the the drudgery of family responsibilities.
Read and find out questions and answers of (should wizard Hit Mommy?)
Q.1. who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story telling?
Ans. Jo is a little girl, about 4 years old. Her father Jack tells her stories from his own imagination. she listens to these stories attentively and from promptly checks if he goes wrong anywhere for stop she in walls herself emotionally in the story.
Q 2. How does Jo want the story to end and why?
Ans. Jo dreams of a magical beautiful world where there is no place for ugliness and stink. Jo wants the story to end fare roger skunk smell less attractive. For this, she doesn’t mind even if the wizard hits mummy. Her world view is limited to the world of her friends where acceptability by other friends is more important that one’s own identity.
Q3. Why does Jack insist that he was the wizard that was hit and not the mother?
Ans. Jack wants to communicate to his daughter that parents know better what is good for their children. Mummy is better experienced hands she knows the importance of a skunk smelling repulsively. It is its own identity and protective mechanism. Secondly he didn’t want his daughter to grow with a wrong precedent where a parent is hit by wizard.
Q.3. what is the moral issue that the story raises?
Ans. The moral issue of the story raises is whether children should be given unrestrained freedom or should there be any parental control on them? If Jo is allowed to have her away she will grow up with a feeling that she could even hit her mummy to get things done in her own way. Knowing this Jack insist the Roger’ s mummy knows what is better for him and she retains his original smell .
Q.4. what do you think was jo’ s problem?
Ans. Jo was concerned about Roger’ s smell that repelled his friends. She wanted him to smell presently so that he would be accepted by his friends. She disliked roger’ s mother taking him back to the wizard and getting his smell changed.
Additional short questions of should wizard hit mommy?
Q 1. What changes did Jack find in his daughter as compared to the past when he began narrating bedtime stories?
Ans. Jack began narrating bedtime stories to put his daughter to sleep. It worked initially but later he found it very tiring on Saturdays because Jo never fell asleep in naps anymore and the IT seemed fertile. She was no longer a little baby but begin asking intelligent questions to her father and often interrupted his story.
Q.2. why was Roger skunk’s mummy angry with him? What did she finally tell him?
Ans. Roger’ s Mummy got angry with him when he changed his smell to that of roses. she wanted her son smell like an original skunk .she disagreed with his changing of Identity because it was his protective mechanism against enemies. She told him to get back his original smell.
Q.3. how did Jo want the wizard to behave when mummy skunk approached him?
Ans. Jo wanted the wizard to be brave and face Mummy when she scolded and hit him. she wanted the wizard to hit her back as he had done a flavour to roger by giving him smell of roses.
Q.4. why did Roger skunk go in search of the wizard?
Ans. Roger skunk smelt very bad due to which all other animals would tease him by calling him stinky skunk. They would run away and not play with him. Roger was terribly upset about this. He met the wise owl first stop the wise owl suggested that he should go to the wizard who would give him a peace and smell. Roger skunk in a desperate bid to get rid of his bad smell went to meet the wizard.
Long Answers Questions of should wizard hit mommy?
Q.1. why did Jo disapprove of Jack’s ending of the story of roger skunk? How did she wanted to end?
Ans. When the little skunk Roger felt humiliated at being teased and avoided by his friends he wanted a solution for stop the reason for not being accepted was the foul smell that he always carried with him for stop it was none of his fault as it was all natures doing. He felt very hurt when no other animal played with him. They ran away shouting roger stinky skunk’; so little rover proved of visit who made him smell like roses. But roger mother on finding his new smell took him again to the wizard and hit him on his head. Thus the wizard again changed him into the same fall smelling creature. Jo didn’t like this ending and wanted the wizard to hit the mother back and not change roger into a foul smelling creature again this shows that ugliness has no place in a child’s world and peer acceptance is very important for them.