Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?
Jo was the four year old girl whose full name was Joanne who was a daughter of Jack and Clare. When she was two years old she was used hear a story before going to sleep. Every time Jack was used to tell new story with a slight variations to the old one. Since she was grown up now and was intelligent and inquisitive child, her mind was bubbling with queries regarding whatever she heard or saw. She responded to her father’s tale according to her own perspective. The eagerness to understand and her restlessness made her ask a lot of questions, which sometimes lest her father in a dilemma. But when Jack was telling a tale about the isolation of Roger Skunk, here she promptly questioned about whether he would see the wise owl again. She wanted her father Jack to end the story according to her perspective. These facts tell that she was living in her own imaginary world.
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