Read the following passage carefully.
After some days, the boy told his father that it had been several days since he had hammered a nail into the fence. Then his father told him to gradually remove some of the nails every day. Soon the boy had removed almost all the nails except a few. These were hammered too deeply to remove.
Then his father asked, ‘What do you see there?’ ‘Holes in the fence,’ the boy replied. His father said, ‘The nails were like the bad words you hammered onto people. They left a scar on the people’s minds. You removed almost all the nails but the holes they left could not be removed. The nails you could not remove are like the permanent scars on people’s minds. They will remain there forever.’ The boy understood his mistake and promised his parents that he would be a kind and polite boy. (Nails in the Fence)
Now, answer the following questions.
1. What did the boy tell his father one day?
2. Why could he not remove some of the nails?
3. What did the boy see in the fence after removing the nails?
4. What were the nails compared with?
5. What did the boy promise his parents?
