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Answer the following question in 120-150 words:

Both Deny and Lamb are victims of physical impairment, but much more painful for them is the feeling of loneliness. Comment.

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How did Jack end the Roger Skunk story? How and why did Jo want to change it?

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A disabled or a handicapped person is considered to be an outcaste. People sympathize with them but do not accompany them. They are excluded from the society. The feeling of loneliness and alienation is much more troublesome than the pain which disabled people experience due to their physical impairment. This is very well revealed in the story, ?On the face of it, where the character, Derry has a burnt face and people often sympathized with him but it was not a heartfelt one. This resulted in his pessimistic approach towards life. Derry had no association with the outer world till he met Mr. Lamb. Mr. Lamb?s attitude and outlook towards people and life uplifted him. He learnt to live a respectful life. Mr. Lamb inspired him to face the world in spite of his disability. Mr. Lamb successfully infused in him, courage and self- determination. He advised him to ignore the comments made by people on his physical impairment and enjoy the beauty of life and nature, although the loneliness of Derry dominates the play, there are evident traces of Mr. Lamb?s loneliness also. The old man had no one to be with. He spent his day in the sun, reading books. By the end of the first scene, it become clearer that he is lonely when he mutters that no one comes back to him after meeting him for the first rime.

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Jack used to tell his little daughter, Jo, bedtime stories. When she grew older, she began to ask questions to her father. Once her father told her a story of a little animal called Roger Skunk who smelled awfully bad. He, therefore, met with a wizard who solved his problem with a magical wand and made him smell like roses. But Skunks mother did not like it and took him back to the wizard to make him smell awfully bad once again this ending was not acceptable to Jo as she wanted the story to have another end in which the wizard should hit the mommy by his magic wand and leave Roger skunk emitting the pleasant smell of roses. Jo thought that Roger was the hero of the story so he must not look ugly or stinky. Jos perspective on life was different from her fathers. She wanted to change the end of the story to assert her views on her father. She had her own ideals and views which she wanted to be pursued by her father.