what distracted jack when he was narrating the story?ch should wizard hit mommy
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● 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 difficult moral question that shows her mental or psychological richness.
● 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.
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