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Answer the following question:

Do you agree with Harold’s parents decision of hiding from him the fact that his father was a boxer? Why/Why not?

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Harold’s parents’ decision of hiding from him the fact that his father was a boxer was not correct. They thought that Harold would die of disgrace if he came to know that his father was a man of wrath and called ‘Young Porky’. The truth was the other way around. Harold was deeply interested in boxing. He had betted two shillings that Jimmy Murphy would not last ten rounds against ‘Young Porky’. It was a dramatic irony that his parents hid from him the fact of which he could swank like anything.

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पाठ 1.4: Keeping lt from Harold - Exercise [पृष्ठ ४०]

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सीबीएसई English Communicative - Literature Reader [English] Class 9
पाठ 1.4 Keeping lt from Harold
Exercise | Q 4.9 | पृष्ठ ४०

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