How does Jo want the story to end and why?
Jo didn’t like the way her father ended the story so she wanted to change the ending according to her and told her father to come again tomorrow with the story in the way she want. She wants that wizard should also hit the mommy back because she didn’t like the injustice that had happened with the hero of the story Roger Skunk.
What makes Jack feel caught in an uglymiddle position?
Why is an adult’s perspective on life different from that of a child’s?
What is the moral issue that the story raises?
What is your stance regarding the two endings to the Roger Skunk story?
What do you think was Jo’s problem?
Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?
What possible plot line could the story continue with?
Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother?
Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
What does the third level refers to?
‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?
What kind of a person was Evans?
It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?
What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?
‘Take care of the small things and the big things will take care of themselves.’ What is the relevance of this statement in the context of the Antarcticenvironment?
Will the exam now go as scheduled?
What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved?
Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible one in the circumstances?
Apparent illogicality sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection? Discuss.
Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?
What did the royal infant grow up to be?
The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power. How does the author employ the literary device of dramatic irony in the story?
‘The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress.’ What are the ways in which we attempt to overcome them?
Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?