NCERT Solutions for class 12 English Vistas  Chapter 5: Should Wizard Hit Mommy

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NCERT Solutions for class 12 English Should Wizard Hit Mommy? can be found in the article below. The story is written by the American novelist and writer John Updike. This story explores the relationship between a child and her parents. The parents tried to implant various morals through the stories they tell to their children, but the unique questions the children ask can be a perfect expression of their thoughts about those stories. The story can be also a way of understanding the psychology of those children.


NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Vistas Chapter 5

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‘Should Wizard Hit Mommy?’ Summary

In this story, the author made it very clear that even though the parents have their idea of their children’s psychological state, the children while growing upstarts to contradict their parent’s thoughts and moral understandings. The central characters of the story are Jack and Joanne. Joanne is the four years old daughter of Jack and Clare.

  • As his wife is pregnant with the third child, Jack takes up the responsibility to tell bedtime stories to their daughter Jo.
  • For the time being as Jack could not create any new story on his own, he started to narrate old stories with a few changes each time, and every time with some new moral.
  • Those stories were about Roger, an animal character who went to an owl with his problems, and how a wizard finally solve his problem.
  • But one day as Jack ended the story, Jo did not like the ending and asked her father to change the ending.
  • Jack instead of changing the ending of the story, scolded Jo.

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