Notesale: Turn your study into money

Document Preview

Extracts from the notes are below, to see the PDF you'll receive please use the links above

---

HEM SHEELA MODEL SCHOOL

DURGAPUR 

STUDY MATERIAL (2020-2021)
ENGLISH 
CLASS-XII

SHOULD WIZARD HIT MOMMY
JOHN UPDIKE
1
...
Child’s Perspective:
● Literary justice for the protagonist and happy endings
● Easy solutions
● Peer acceptance more important than individuality
3
...
Discuss the end of the story
...
He feels caught in an ugly middle position
...
Moreover, on one hand, he feels affection for his wife who was six months pregnant with their third
child and on the other, the chauvinist in him finds his ego challenged when he finds her at work which were originally
meant to be for the masculine gender
...
The bars are half old tan and
half new ivory
...
Metaphorically, tan
is the colour of rust (undesirable) and ivory was expensive and desirable
...
His confusion prevented him
from helping her
...
Jack as a good story-teller
Though the plot and even the name of the protagonist remained same for two years, every time the problem was a new
one
...
Jack added special effects to the story by rapping on the
window when Roger Skunk knocks on the wizard’s door, fixing Jo in a trance-like gaze as he chants the wizard’s spell in
an elderly voice, making the sound of the wizard by scrunching his face so that even his eyes became watery for a while,
by tracing one of Roger Skunk’s tears on Jo’s cheek
...
Jack as a bad storyteller:
For two years, the structure has remained the same and was predictable, which made the story less interesting
...
His initial purpose of telling the story to put Jo
to sleep for a Saturday afternoon nap was soon overtaken by his unnecessary lengthening of the story, either to teach
her a lesson or to avoid helping his wife
...


With a patriarchal mentality, he tries to be assertive to his four-year-old daughter, which agitates her and does not help
her sleep
...
Jack as a good father
Told bedtime stories to Jo for the last two years, thus he spent time with his daughter
...
Though he gets irritated when Jo frequently interrupts, he does not scold her
...
He has a message/ value imparted: individuality over peer acceptance
...

8
...
As a father, he isn’t patient enough – but he expects patience from his daughter
...
When
Jo started fidgeting, he was angry and found his ego challenged – which is not the mark of a mature father
...

Teaching individuality to a four-year-old is not mature
...

9
...
The story within the story is of Roger Skunk; which Jack tells Jo to put her to sleep
...
Aim of Jack’s story
Jack started telling Jo a story to put her off to sleep for a Saturday afternoon nap, but as the story progresses, Jack is
disappointed to find Jo not concentrating on it
...
He decided to lengthen the story and ended up giving her a lesson at a tender
age, which she can hardly appreciate
...
Jack as a Chauvinist
...
When
Jo started fidgeting, he was angry and found his ego challenged – which is not the mark of a mature father
...
On one hand, he feels affection for his wife who was six
months pregnant with their third child and on the other, the chauvinist in him finds his ego challenged when he finds her
at work which were originally meant to be for the masculine gender
...




---