What is the moral issue that the story raises?
The story mainly raises the issue of a generation gap and perspective towards world between a father and her small daughter. Hate and injustice didn’t exist in the world of a child. Therefore she wanted Roger Skunk to get the smell of rose forever and could play with his friends and she didn’t want his mommy to hit wizard and forced him to get the foul smell back for her child.
But Jack is a father, who thinks that only parents can think whatever is good or bad for their children so he supports the decision of Skunk’s mother to get the foul smell back to her child.
The story raises the question that whether parents are always right in all the decision towards their child or whether their decision should always be followed by their children.
So in the story Skunk’s mother did what she felt correct for his child and what she wanted to do.
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