Class – 12th
Subject – English
Day – Monday
Date – 28/09/2020
Topic – Main point of the chapter ‘Should Wizard Hit
Mommy?’
5. Should Wizard Hit Mommy? (John Updike)
Main
Points of the chapter:
Ø This
story is about a little & four years old girl, Jo.
Ø Her
worldwide is different from the views of her father, Jack.
Ø Jack
tells his little daughter bed time stories since she was two years old.
Ø The
story is always about a little animal called Roger (as Roger Fish, Roger Squirrel,
Roger Chipmunk etc.)
Ø In story he had problem and little Roger consulted with a wise owl about his problem.
Ø But the owl tells him to consult a wizard who could solve every problem with his magic
wand but charged a fee for it.
Ø Now
Jo has grown a little older and asks her father difficult moral questions about
his stories.
Ø One
day Jack tells her the story of a little animal Roger Skunk.
Ø He
has a problem. His smell was very bad. No animals like his bad smell.
Ø So
he goes to a wizard and the wizard makes his smell like roses.
Ø Now
other animals like to play with him.
Ø But
the Skunk’s mother is angry with him.
Ø She
takes him to the wizard.
Ø She
asks the wizard to make Skunk's smell as bad as before.
Ø Jo
is not happy at the ending of the story.
Ø She
wants that the wizard should hit the stupid mother, but Jack defends the
mother’s action.