Should Wizard Hit Mommy Questions and Answers

 

Should Wizard Hit Mommy Questions and Answers 

Should Wizard Hit Mommy - Up and CBSE board Class 12 Chapter 5 Should  Wizard Hit Mommy Detailed Explanation of the lesson with summary and meaning of difficult words. In addition, the explanation is followed by a summary of the text. All questions and answers given in the lesson are covered .

The Name of the Lesson – Should Wizard Hit Mommy (क्या जादूगर को माँ पर प्रहार करना चाहिए)

Writer of this Chapter – John Hoyer Updike 

Born – (March 18, 1932)

Dead - January 27, 2009)

 

About the Author

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four authors to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike has written more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as Published poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career . should wizard hit mommy “ was written in 1959 when John Updike was married to his first wife Mary Pennington . the couple lived in oxford , England and had four children before they ultimately divorced . there oldest daughter , Elizabeth , was herself four years – old when the story was written.

Summary of the story

This is the story of a father who narrates to a small girl. Jack, a father, tells his young daughter the story of a small creature named Roger Skunk. He says that Roger is stinky. That's why all the other small animals run away. This always makes him sad. He takes his problem and goes to the wise owl. Owl asks him to go to the magician. According to the wishes of the magician Roger makes it fragrant like roses, now those small animals who used to run away enjoy living near them. Roger is overjoyed. But his mother is surprised to find her son smelling different from skunk creatures. She goes with him to the magician and makes her son smelly again. Roger agrees with his mother's words. Who doesn't agree at the end of the story. She insists on her father to end the story in a different way, she wants the magician to attack the foolish skunk mother. This story also tells the difference between an adult and a child's thinking towards life.

The story revolves around Jack, who is the father of two children – Joan (Joe) and Bobby. His wife Claire is carrying their third child. Jack had a habit of telling a story to his daughter Joe every evening and taking naps on Saturday afternoons. This time when he was telling her a story, she interrupts him and asks him questions whenever she feels that the things being told are not true. So Jack finds himself fine now and doesn't know how to solve Joe's questions. Parents feel that children should do or think what they are told. They should believe everything their parents told them. But is this the right attitude. This moral question is raised by the story and is left to the reader to decide what needs to be done.

Difficult word of this chapter

Nap - झपकी -short sleep

 Out of his head -अपनी कल्पना से - from imagination

Custom - रिवाज  , प्रथा -habit practice 

Slight - थोड़ा सा - little bit

Variation - परिवर्तन - change

Magic spell - तंत्र मंत्र -magical formula

Directed - की ओर भेजना - pointed out the way

Wizard - जादूगर - magician

Fatiguing -थकान वाला - tiring

Rite - प्रक्रिया - procedure

Futile - निरर्थक -useless

Bump -उभार  swelling

Covers - आवरण - bedsheets

Sifting - छनकर फैलना -scattering

Drawn shades- गिराए हुए पर्दे -curtain

Fantastic- अनोखा।-fanciful

Squeezed - भींचना - pressed hard

Mother blue-माँ की आँखों की भांति नीली -  blue like her mother 's eyes

Skunk - अमेरिकी पशु जिसकी खाल कालो - सफ़ेद - होती है -American animal with black and white coat

Momentarily-पल भर  for a moment

Stirred - प्रेरित किया -inspired

Creative - रचनात्मक -originality of thought

Enthusiasm - उत्साह -zeal

Solemnly- गंभीरता से -seriously

Foreseen- पहले से अनुमान लगाना -gussed beforehand

Zest- जोश -  enthusiasm

Humiliation -अपमान - insult

Stinky- बदबूदार -smelling bad

Dropped -उदासी से लटक  गए- hand down

Traced - पता लगाना -followed the track

Tug- कसके खींचना - pull hard

Switched-हिले - flicked

Tensely- तनाव से -stretching tightly

Scraped- खड़खड़ाई - made grating noise

Phase - अवस्था state of change

Insisted - जोरदार -pressed firmly

Sly-  चालाक – cunning

Curtly- संक्षिप्त -short

Narrative - कहानी -story

Swamp - दलदल -marsh

Rapped- खटखटाया -knocked hard

Clenched - जकड गया  tughtened

Infantile - शैशव - like a small baby

Thrill - सिहरन -excitement

Awful- बहुत बुरी -very bad

Scrunching-चबाना - crumpling

Whining- रोना -wailing

Rheumy -पानी से भरा - watery discharge

Jumbled- अस्त -व्यस्त - mixed confusion

Rummaged - खोज निकाला - searched  thoroughly

Smugly - आत्म संतुस्ट -self satisfied

Trancelike- समाधी जैसी tomb-like

Chanted- गाया -sang

 Irritable चिड़चिड़ा होने योग्य -easily annoyed

Rapt -भाव विभोर lost in thought

Widened out - फ़ैल गयी spread

Startled - चौक गया - surprised

Feigning -   बहाना बनाना -pretending

Cocktail party-  मदिरा पान -drinking party

Cranky - चिड़चिड़ा -faddist

Trace-  लेस मात्र -very small quantity

Sincerity -t सच्चाई -truthfulness

  Rumbled -  गड़गड़ाहट की आवाज -made rolling sound

Lane - गली - narrow street

Fuss- मटकाना -flap

Crack of day - सूर्य उदय -day-break

Took for granted -  बिना सोचे  किसी बात को सही मानना –believed it to be true .

Dabbling - हिलना -moving

Genuine- सच्चा -actual

Fright - भय - fear

Skittered off- उड़ गए -flew away

Underbrush - झाड़ी -hedge

Agitation -  उत्तेजना -excitement

 Stimulation - प्रेरणा -inspiration

Astounded - विस्मित -astonished

Beans- सेम -pod bearing plants

Pork chops- सूअर के मांस का कीमा

Celery- सब्जी -vegetable

Mashed - भुर्जी -crushed into soft meal

Dessert - भोजन की अंत की मिठाई - fruit

Hugged - गले लगाया -  embraced

Eventually -  अंत में – lastly

Rare -असाधारण -  unusual

Emphasis - बल -stress

Defending -बचाव करना - protecting

Odd- विलक्षण -strange

Adjust - समायोजित करना- set right

Crack - दरार - split

Tiptoed - पंजो के बल चलना - moved noiselessly

Pretence - बहाना दिखावा -feigning

Crouching - दुबकना -bending low

Bounced - उछलना -jumped

Gingerly - सावधानी से -cautiously

Plump -गोल मटोल - chubby

 Chopped - काट डाले -cut off

Heave - उत्तार चढाव -rise and fall

Complaint - चरचराहट -painful sound

Can - डिब्बा -tin container

Maternity- मातृत्व - motherhood

Smock - कुरता -loose outer garment

Stroking - प्रहार करना -striking

Dipped - भिगोया जाये -put in liquid

Vibrated -तीव्र कम्पन - moved rapidly to and fro

Spank - थप्पड़ मारना -strike with flat hand

Utter - पूरा -complete

Weariness - थकान - tiredness

Baseboard - पल्ले -skirting board

Tan- भूरा - yellowish brown

Reading with insight

Question 1- what is the moral issue that the story raise?

Answer- Ethical issue raised by Joe. According to Jack Story, the mummy killed the magician because she gave the rogue the smell of roses. But who thinks it should have been the other way around. The crook was right to ask for a sweet smell instead of a bad one. So the magician should have killed the mummy to keep her son's smell as bad as ever.

So, the moral issue is whether or not children have the right to improve themselves. Should they obey their parents and are hated or should they change for welcome in the society .

Question 2- How does Jo want the story to end and why?

Answer- Jo think skunk mother was a bad mother who did not like her son to change for the better. So the wizard should chop her arms foe hitting him.

Question 3- Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother?

Answer- Jack hitting on mother hitting the wizard because he thinks that mother knows what is right for her child. He thinks that a child loves his mother and so accepts without questions what she says.

Questions 4- What makes jacks feel caught in an ugly middle position?

Answer- Jack was caught between half old tan and half new ivory obsolete ides that came to him through his mother , while on the other hand , there is new outlook as suggested by the questioning mind of little Jo .The old looked ugly but he was not prepared to accept the new outlook either .

Question 5- What is your stance regarding the two endings to the Roger skunk story?

Answer- The end Jo Suggested is more acceptable me. Parents should help their children to improve. They should not pressure them to remain stagnant and follow the old outdated ways that nobody likes .

Questions 6- Why is an audit’s perspective on life different from that of a child?

Answer- Adults get used to the ways of the world. They have developed a special approach, and begin to think that this is the only correct approach. Children see the world from a very different perspective. They are immature and from their own mental picture. Also children have an inquisitive mind. They question the very idea that adults have taken lightly.

Short answer Type Questions

Question 1- What was each new story a slight variation of a basic tale?

Answer- Jack had been telling stories to his daughter for about two years. Now, his head felt empty .He had no new story to tell. But she still instead to listen to new stories .so, jack told her a story that would be a slight variation of basic tale.

Question 2- what were the common features of all the stories told by Jack?

Answer- All his stories were about some small creature. It could be a fish, a squirrel a chipmunk or a Skunk. It was named Roger. Each story had an owl and a wizard who solved roger creature‘s problem. Every story had the description of supper by the family of Roger creature.

Question 3- Why was Roger skunk sad?

 Answer- Roger skunk was a little creature. He smelled too bad for this reason, all other little animas of the forest ran away from him. None of them played with him. He would be left alone .This would make him sad and he started weeping.

Question 4- What does jack call a new phase a reality phase?

Answer- jack’s little daughter had starred questioning whether the things told in the stories were real. Once she asked if God was really present everywhere. On another occasion she asked if magic specks were real. Jack calls this a new phase a reality phase.

Question 5- How did the wizard behave with roger skunk?

Answer- Hearing the knock at his door, the wizard came out and asked skunk what he wanted. He complained about the Skunk‘s bad smell. Then he asked skunk what he wanted to smell like. He solved his problem by making him smell like roses as per his wish.

Question 6- how did the wizard look?

Answer- the wizard was a tiny old man. He had a long white beard. He wore pointed blue hat. He spoke in an irritable voice. He looked untidy and kept his things too in the same way. He had a magic want among all things of magic.

Question 7- How did the wizard solve Roger skunk’s problem?

Answer – the wizard took his magic wand and asked Roger skunk what he wanted to smell like. Roger said that he wanted to smell likes roses. The wizard chanted a magic spell and made roger smell like roses. Thus he solved his problem.

Question 8 – Give an example to prove that Jo listened to stories with rapt attention?

Answer-Once jack was telling her the story of roger Skunk. At one place he called him roger fish. Jo at once caught the point, she asked jack to correct himself. This proves that she listened to the stories with rapt attention .

Question 9 How many pennies did the wizard ask for? Where did roger skunk find three more pennies?

Answer- The wizard asked for seven pennies. But roger skunk bad only four. The magician asked him to go the end of the lane and look down the magic well. Skunk did so and there he found three more pennies in the well.

Question 10- how did the other little animals behave with roger skunk when he smelled like roses?

Answer- When roger skunk came back into the forest with smell of roses, all the other little animals gathered around him. Now they loved his smell and so the enjoyed his company. They played many games with him and laughed all afternoon.

Question 11-How did roger skunk’s mother respond to his smelling like roses.

Answer- When roger skunk mother found him smelling like roses, she was shocked. She asked him who made him smell like that. She took him back to wizard. She hit the wizard with an umbrella over his head .She made the wizard smell her son bad again.

Question 12 – Why did mummy skunk make her son smell bad again?

Answer- Skunk are naturally stinky animals. So mommy Skunk her son to keep his originality. On finding he smelling like roses, she was shocked. She did not want him to lose his identity by smelling like roses. Hence, she made him smell bad again.  

Question 13- What happened when roger skunk started smelling bad again?

Answer- When roger skunk started smelling bad again, his mother hugged him . She said that he smelled like her little baby skunk again. She said that she loved him very much. Other animals too got used to the way he was. Eventually they stopped running away from him.

Question 14 - Not being satisfied with the story’s ending. What did Jo insist?

Answer- Jo was not satisfied with the story’s ending that mommy skunk hit the wizard and he made Roger smell bad again. She insisted her father to end the story in different way. She wanted to be told that the wizard hit back that mommy.

Question 15- When did jack start telling stories to his daughter Jo and what was his problem?

Answer- Jo’s father used to tell her story in the evening and for Saturday naps . this customs began when jo was about two but now she was four years old. Thus he had been telling her the stories for the last two years .

Question 16- What was the basic tale told by jack ?

Answer- Each story would have a same basic tale and it come out from jack‘s own – head . in each tale there would be small  creature , usually named roger . it would have some problem and a wizard would solve that problem .

 Question 17- Of which character‘s story jack told that day and what was the problem of character?

Answer- That day jack told the story of roger skunk . roger skunk smelled very bad. No one liked to play with him due to foul to smell emitted from his body.

Question18- why it was hard for jack to make Jo sleep even after telling the story?

Answer – The little girl would sleep while listening to the story . but now she is about four . she has become quite inquisitive . she never sleeps while listening to the story . on the other hand she would ask her father many questions .

Question 19- What were Jo’s feeling about Roger skunk? How was the reacting on father jack’s story?

 Answer- Jo wants that Roger skunk must smell like roses . he must not be brought back to the  bad smelling situation . she wants that the stupid mommy should be punished for making little skunk smell bad again . she feels elated when good smelling Roger become a stinky skunk again . she was not satisfied with the end of the story .

Question 20- Who was the wizard? What was his role in the story?

Answer- The wizard is the character in jack’s stories who usually present the solution to whatever problem roger is facing . he does this by performing a magic spell that reverse prediction , making roger happy.

Question 21- what were the question made by Jo? Give any two?

Answer- Jo was a very curious girl so in the middle of the story she asked many question such as -

        Are the magic spells real?

                    Do the spider eat bugs 

Question 22- in what smell roger skunk ‘s bad smell way converted ?why?Answer- Roger skunk‘s face racial segregation . he smells very bad . it is not his fault . but the other animals of the forest do not come near him and they refused to play with him .

Question 23- How did the wizard change the bad smell into the smell of roses? what did he charge for that ?

Answer - The wizard asked the roger skunk what he wanted to smile like . the skunk told him that he wanted to smell like roses . the wizard took his magic want a chanted a spell . soon the whole inside of wizard ‘s house  was filled with the fragrance of roses . the wizard charged seven pennies for it .

Question 24 – who was Clare ? why was jack worried about her ?

Answer – Clare was wife of jack and mother of Jo . Jack was worried about Clare as she was moving heavy furniture in the room below where jack was sitting . as she was six month pregnant with their third child it won’t be good for her health to do hard labour .

Question- 25  How did Roger skink get seven pennies?

Answer- The wizard told roger skunk to go to the end of the lane and turn around three time and look down the magic well and there he will find three pennies . roger skunk had already find four pennies , and by the advise of wizard he got three pennies . in this way he arranged seven pennies .

Question 26 - why did the mother of roger skunk go to the wizard ?

Answer – Roger skunk’s mother was very angry at the changes made in the smell of skunk . she resented it sternly . she took an umbrella in her hand and went to see the wizard . she hit the wizard right over his head . he changed roger skunk into its foul smell . now roger skunk had no smell of roses and he began to smell very bad again . 

Question 27- what did roger skunk and his family eat when skink’s father returned from Boston?

Answer- When roger skunk’s father returned from Boston they had lima , beans, celery, liver mashed potatoes , and pie-oh my for desert .

Question 28- How did the jack finally end up the story?

Answer- jack’s story ends with roger skunk’s mother hit the wizard on his head and wizard agreed to her . but Jo did not like this end of the story  . she wanted that the wizard should have hit the mommy back . according to her the wizard had done nothing wrong .       

Question 29- How did the Jo want to end up the story and why?

Answer- In the roger skunk story , the skink mother ‘s hit the wizard on his head and wizard agree to her . but Jo did not like this end of this story . she wanted that the wizard should have hit the mommy back. According to her the wizard had done nothing wrong.

Question 30- What did jack find when he want downstairs?

Answer – Jack saw his wife had spread the newspaper and, wearing an old shirt of his on the top of her maternity smock, was stroking the chair rail with a dipped brush. the woodwork a cage of casting and rails and baseboard all round them , was half old tan and half new ivory and he felt caught in an ugly middle position , and though he as well felt his wife’s presence in the cage with him .            

Question 31- How was Clare busy? What did jack want to do at last ?

Answer – He wife Clare was busy in painting the household items and jack felt himself caught in an ugly middle position , and though he as well felt his wife presence in the cage with, he did not want to speak with her , touch her , anything.

Long Answer Type Question

Question 1- Describe the basic tale told by jack his daughter Jo in the lesson ‘ should wizard hit mommy?

Answer-Every story Jack told had roughly the same plot - there would be some creature. He'll have some problem, he'll go to the wise old owl. The wise old owl will send him to a magician and the magician will solve the creature's problem. Even in this story, a scoundrel named Roger Skunk was very angry with the smell of his body. There was a foul odor emanating from his body. No other creature would want to play with him. He went to the wise old owl. The old owl asked him to go to the magician. The magician gave her the smell of roses. He became very happy. He played with his friends. But when he went to his house, his mother got very angry. He asked her who gives her that smell. The scoundrel replied that it was a magician. Mom took Skunk the Wizard. He hit the magician for hitting the umbrella. The magician again returned his foul smell to the miscreant .

Question 2- Describe jack as perfect story-teller?

Answer- Jack were often has to tell story to his little daughter . he has a basic tale and tells her various stories with slight variation in it . he imitates the voice of the characters in the story to keep I  her interest . he imitates their expression top. He calm down all her queries arising during the listening of the story . at place , he even checks her attention by making some mistakes in the story . he knows how to keep the listener  bound the stories . his description of event is so detailed and vivid that it keeps the listener totally rapt . thus he has perfected the art of story- telling .

Question3-who was roger skunk? How was Jo seemed attached deeply with character ? why?
Answer- Roger skunk is a creation of jack . it is a little black animal that that smelled very bad . when ever he would go out to play with other animals they would tease him. All the animal would run away from leaving him quite alone . they would call him stinky skunk. According to Jo , neither roger skunk nor the wizard was wrong in the story . Jo refused to accept the ends where roger mother hit the wizard and that too without being hit back . she wanted to story  to ends with the wizard hitting back the mother skunk with his magic wand. Her expression make it clear that she take the stories to be true . she takes them very seriously and want them to end the way she wants as is typically expected by a child . 

Question 4- Do you favour mommy skunk’s action? Why or why not?

Answer- Skunk are naturally stinky creature . so when mommy skunk found her son smelling like roses, she felt shocked . she took him back to the wizard and made him smell bad again . this action of her could seem wrong from the point of view of a small child . but in fact, she was right as it saved her son from losing his identity . if roger skunk smelled like roses , nobody would take him to be a skunk . how was he going to be recognized then ? his mother knew this all . so she was made him get rid of the smell of roses . she was made him smell bad like all other skunk do . I totally favour her action .

Question 5-what type of question did Jo raise to her parents? Why? What were her reactions to the answer?

Answer- Jo is jack ‘s four years old daughter . she loves to listen stories . jack tells her stories which he create himself . she asks many questions related to the story to the story such as are the magic spells real ? second question do the spider eat bugs ? once her mother told her that god was in the sky . she asked her father is he really ? she raise queries as do whether the things told in the story are true . she even suggests the way the story should have been . she suggests that the wizard should have hit roger skink’s mother with his magic wand . her expression make it clear that she takes the stories to be true . she takes them very seriously and wants them to end the way she wants as is typically expected by  a child .                        

Question 6- What was the problem of roger skunk? What did he do to solve it ?

Answer- Roger skunk was a little creature . he smelled was a very bad . so all the other little creature ran away from him . none of the played with him . he was left alone . this made him very bad . he went with his problem to the wise old owl . the old owl him to go to the wizard . he went to the wizard and told him his problem . the wizard took his magic wand and asked him what he wanted to smell like . roger skunk said that he wanted to smell like roses . then as per his wish , the wizard made him smell like roses . thus his problem was solved . all the little creature loved his smell . they played many  games with him . he became happy.

Question 7- who was the wizard? Why did he live alone? How did he use to do magic and why?

Answer- Wizard was a tiny little old man with a white beard . he had magical power . the wizard lived alone because he was very old and he had not married . he did not have any lady to clean his house .

Question 8- What does jack want her daughter to learn through the story if Roger skunk?

Answer- Jo, like Roger skunk  is a little child .they both want things to be beautiful and sweet . they both want all ugliness to go . Roger Skunk believes that his mother will always take a right decision for him . he abides by his mother ‘s decision that he should remain bad smelling . Jo on the other hand, has bi respect for her parents decision . she insist that she alone is right jack., through the story of roger skunk , wants to teach her that the children should respect their parents decision . he wants to teach her that parents are always more experienced than their children . hence, the children should always abide by their decision . they should know that their parents always decide the best for them .  

                           

            

  

 

 

 

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