Jo, a four year old, is the little daughter of Jack. When she was of two year, Jack had started the custom of telling her a story in the evening for a nap. She would fall asleep while listening to the story. But now she has developed a sense of inquisitiveness because she has become a girl of four years old. She has evolved her own way of understanding and thinking about people and things. She responds to her father according to her own perspective. Jack always tells a new tale with some variations to the old one. She would enjoy such stories and show her interest by asking related questions. In this story, Jack tells about the isolation of Roger Skunk. Here she promptly questioned about the poor creature and asks firmly whether he would not see the wise owl again.

In this story Jack has told that Roger Skunk smelled like roses because of the Wizard's magic spell. But the mother of Roger Skunk did not like this change. She resented very sharply and asked who had made him smell like roses. Skunk replied ‘The Wizard’. Skunk pleaded that he wanted to enjoy with other animals and the rose smell was appropriate. She did not agree and took Skunk back to the Wizard. She hit the Wizard with her hand and Skunk started smelling bad again. Here, Jo did not like the plot line. She called Skunk's mother “A stupid mommy.” She wanted the Wizard to hit Skunk's mommy.

Jo was a very sensible type of girl. She wanted that mother Skunk should not have gone to the Wizard for changing the smell of her child. He too had the desire for a company to play with other animals. On the other hand, the Wizard should have hit the mother Skunk as she had failed to understand her son's problem.

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If we view the story very deeply we can come across two types of moral issues. One is regarding the proper understanding of the infants feelings and their pains as well as whims. The story under our purview presents that Roger Skunk smells too bad to play and enjoy with other animals. He is badly hurt and fails to stay in the company of his friends. With the advice of a wise owl, he seeks the help of a Wizard who gets his smell changed.

Thus Roger Skunk feels elated with the friend but the Mommy of Roger Skunk does not like. She takes the baby Skunk to the Wizard and hits on the head who in turn changes Roger Skunk to the original smell. Finding the baby in the original condition Mommay hugs and shows affection. Here Jo does not like this type of behaviour on the part of Snunk's mother. She wants that the Wizard should hit mommy. On the other side, Roger Skunk faces racial segregation. He smells bad. It is not his fault. But the other animals of the forest do not come near them and refuse to play. They call him “Roger, Stinky Roger.” The pain becomes so unbearable that tears roll over his cheeks. The Wizard changes his smell and other animals start playing and like his company. But the mother gets him changed to the original smell. Thus in the world of children, ugliness and hatred have no place. It is pure in every respect. We as human being, should follow this.

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