question_answer

  One chap's got a snapshop of Jimmy Wilde. At least he says it's Jimmy Wilde, but I believe it's just some ordinary fellow. Anyhow, its jolly blurred, so it might be anyone. Pa, can't you give me a picture of yourself boxing? I could swank like anything. And you do't know how sick a chap gets of having chaps call him. 'Goggles'.       (i) Who is Jimmy Wilde in the extract? (ii) Why is Harold not sure that the person in the photograph is Jimmy Wilde? (iii) Why does Harold want Bill's snap?

Answer:

                  (i) Jimmy Wilde is a famous boxer. (ii) Harold thought that snapshot was just of an ordinary person because he could not imagine that it can be of a famous boxer, Jimmy Wilde, as it was very blurred. (iii)Harold wanted his father's snap because he wants to boast of being the son of a boxing legend and he does not want to be called 'Goggles'.