While telling the story, Jack has told that Roger Skunk smelt very bad. He needs company Jo with the help of the Wizard he gets a rose smell but Shunk’s mother does not like it. She takes Skunk before the Wizard and hits him to change the smell. The Wizard does so and Roger Khunk starts smelling bad.

Here the daughter of the narrator does not agree with this. She force that Roger Skunk should retain the rose smell and the Wizard should hit the stupid Mommy hard. Jo, does not like the mommy should hit the Wizard. But the Jack’s ending is appropriate since a child cannot think as a mother. Skunk’s mother wants that Skunk should have originality. In this context Jack tries to make Jo understand his viewpoint. He has no desire that Jo should form a negative opinion about mommy. He tries to explain that the mommy should be loved, respected and well behaved by her child.

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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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, 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.

Story telling had become a necessary practice for Jack in the evenings and on Saturdays. It was for his daughter Jo so that she could have a nap. This had been in practice when Jo was two years old. All stories were told by Jack with certain variations.