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5. What could be the best summary of the poem?

a father’s perception of how simple the life of an infant is

a wife’s perception of how difficult her husband’s life is

a child’s perception of how difficult his mother’s life is

a child questions his father’s job as a serious writer because his stories are neither
captivating nor comprehensible

B. Answer these questions.

1. Which lines in the poem tell you that the narrator admires his mother more than
his father?

2. Why does the narrator rebuke his mother?

3. Why does the narrator think that his father is not a good writer?
4. Why are the father’s stories not as nice as narrator’s mother’s?

5. List the things that the narrator’s mother allows the father to do, but not him.

a.

b.
c.

d.

Reference to the context

Read the lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

‘You never say a word when father writes.
When my father wastes such heaps of paper, mother, you don’t

seem to mind at all.

But if I take only one sheet to make a boat with, you say,

‘Child, how troublesome you are!’

a. What is the tone of the child in these lines?
i. arrogant ii. amused iii. envious iv. critical

b. What prompts the mother to act differently with the child and the father?

c. Why is the speaker considered to be troublesome?

d. What doesn’t the mother mind when the child complains about his father?

e. Fill in the blank to complete the relation.
writer : book :: painter:

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