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Question
Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
How did Jo want the Roger Skunk story to end? Why?
Solution
Jo was not convinced with the ending of the story that Jack had told her because she believed that the wizard should have hit mommy on the head and not change the little skunk back. Jo wanted Roger Skunk's mother to be punished because she prevented him from smelling like roses and having friends to play with. Jo thought Roger Skunk's mother to be stupid in wanting Roger smell again like her baby skunk again. She felt bad for Roger's loneliness and therefore, wanted his mother to be punished. Also, according to Jo, that would be the logical ending of the story.
Jo thought that Roger Skunk's mommy hits the gentle wizard without any fault. And therefore, the wizard should hit her back on the head. But the father defends mommy's action by saying that a mommy is always right. He wants to teach this lesson to his daughter. But she is not convinced and coaxes her father to retell the story the next day, based on the predetermined path that she had set
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