Why was Harold upset that his father had not told him about his true identity? Give two reasons.
Harold was much upset that his mother and father had secrete the truth about his father’s profession, that Bill was a heavy weight boxer. He was told that his father was a commercial traveller who took orders from various shops, etc. However, now that he knew that ‘Young Porky’ was none other than his own father, he felt happy and upset.
(1) Harold was a studious child. However, he was interested in sports too. He had bet his friend Dicky Saundres that Jimmy Murphy won’t last ten rounds even against Young Porky, and now that Bill was not going to fight. Harold was sad that after saving all his pocket money to bet on such a good thing and now his father won’t fight it.
(2) Harold felt sad that the truth was concealed and secreted from him. He felt bad for he was not able to show off about his own father being ‘Young Porky’. He could have made all the lads in his school jealous of the fact. He was sad for a boy in his school once got an autograph of Phill Scott and another boy got a snapshot of Jimmy Wilde, and here, he never even knew about his own father’s truth. Had the guys at his school known that his father was the heavy weight boxer, they would not have dared to bully him and tease him ‘Goggles’. Harold even requested Bill if he could give him a picture of him fighting.