Work Answers About "Spoil the Child"
Spoil the Child 1. Look in the book.
2. They are out on the prairie, and are moving west, as the dad has an itch in his feet. The boy says it himself, as he says, He guesses he is just like his dad with an itch his feet having to move west all the time.
3. Dave’s dad is a man who has experienced the civil war between the north and the south. He has a lot of dreams for his family, and if he cold, he would settle down on the prairie. It is said, that he has an itch in his feet, which means he has to be on the move. Dave explains how they have always moved to the west, always moving from one place to another.
4. Dave’s mother is a woman who is not afraid to give her children a beating. The mother is ill, and she does not have a lot of strength to watch over her children, and be the protective mother, even though she tries by petting over the Maude. Therefore her illness make her children have to grow up. Maude is not able to seen in her way of speaking, where Dave is growing up faster.
5. In the first part of the story, Dave is under his mothers and sisters order. Even though he fights back a little, this is seen in the first part of the story, where even if he is saying something he does what he is told. Here he is not known to his mother’s illness yet.
After he realizes his dad isn’t coming back, and he finds him dead, Dave has to grow up, knowing here is no man, and there has to be one. He says this as he says he didn’t like girls in Maude’s age. Suddenly Dave also begins to order around with Maude, telling her to go inside, and go to sleep, ad Maude lets her. In the end he is also let in to the secret of his mother’s illness or pregnancy.
6. a) Before Dave realizes his dad is not coming back, he still have some sort of fractures of his boyhood left, seen in his conversations with his sister, as she tells on him. He knows they are in a rough position and just have to do what is told.
b) When he then realises his dad is
2. They are out on the prairie, and are moving west, as the dad has an itch in his feet. The boy says it himself, as he says, He guesses he is just like his dad with an itch his feet having to move west all the time.
3. Dave’s dad is a man who has experienced the civil war between the north and the south. He has a lot of dreams for his family, and if he cold, he would settle down on the prairie. It is said, that he has an itch in his feet, which means he has to be on the move. Dave explains how they have always moved to the west, always moving from one place to another.
4. Dave’s mother is a woman who is not afraid to give her children a beating. The mother is ill, and she does not have a lot of strength to watch over her children, and be the protective mother, even though she tries by petting over the Maude. Therefore her illness make her children have to grow up. Maude is not able to seen in her way of speaking, where Dave is growing up faster.
5. In the first part of the story, Dave is under his mothers and sisters order. Even though he fights back a little, this is seen in the first part of the story, where even if he is saying something he does what he is told. Here he is not known to his mother’s illness yet.
After he realizes his dad isn’t coming back, and he finds him dead, Dave has to grow up, knowing here is no man, and there has to be one. He says this as he says he didn’t like girls in Maude’s age. Suddenly Dave also begins to order around with Maude, telling her to go inside, and go to sleep, ad Maude lets her. In the end he is also let in to the secret of his mother’s illness or pregnancy.
6. a) Before Dave realizes his dad is not coming back, he still have some sort of fractures of his boyhood left, seen in his conversations with his sister, as she tells on him. He knows they are in a rough position and just have to do what is told.
b) When he then realises his dad is