Question

9, Ch-3, Ch-The little girl
Class

Answer in 100 to 150 words-

Why was kezia punished by her father and how ?
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Answer 1

Explanation:

ANSWER:-

• The day of the birthday of her father was approaching.
• So Kezia's grandmother suggested to make a pin cushion for her father.
• Actually she wanted to bond the relation of daughter and father.
• Now, she started to make it but did not find any thing to stuff.
• So, without thinking she went to the mother's room and found great many sheets of paper.
• She tore them in pieces and stuffed the.
• That night there was a hur and cry in Kezia's house.
• Yhe great speech of the Port authority of father had been lost.
• Servants were called for and asked .
• Finally mother came to Kezia and she admitted that she had taken the papers.
• Furiously, Kezia's father beat her in her room with a scale on her pink palms.

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Answer 2

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One  day her grandmother told her to make a pin-cushion to gift him on his birthday which  was approaching. Kezia took it an opportunity to please him. So, she stitched cotton  cloth three sides and looked for the things that could be stuffed into the stitched  cloth. Soon she found out many sheets of paper. Actually they contained her father’s  speech for the Port Authority. She tore them into pieces and stuffed her case.

One day when her father looked for the papers, he did not find them. After some   time, he came to know that Kezia had tom them into pieces to make a pin-cushion. He  got infuriated and beat her with a ruler. Thus, her efforts to please her father  resulted in displeasing him very much.

$\underline\orange{SUMMARY :-}$

◆‘The Little Girl’ by, KATHERINE MANSFIELD is a story of a little girl, Kezia who on account of little understanding about her father, usually remained scared of him.

◆She kept a distance from him, whenever he would be at home. She considered him to be as big as a giant.

◆She would often get nervous and stutter while talking to him.

◆Once she was kept indoors on account of being affected by cold.

◆Her grandmother advised her to make a gift for her father’s birthday next week.

◆She suggested she should make a pin-cushion for him. Kezia made a beautiful pin-cushion; but she inadvertently made a mistake.

◆ She filled it with a paper that had father’s important speech on it.

◆ She was punished for that.

◆This incident further estranged Kezia from her father.

◆She would often look at the neighbours, the Macdonalds playing joyously in their lawn.

◆ Mr. Macdonald was such a good father and played so lovingly with his children.

◆ She wondered he might be a different sort of father.

◆Once her mother fell ill and was hospitalized.

◆ She was left alone at home under the care of the cook.

◆At night she had a nightmare and woke up screaming.

◆She found her father standing by her bedside.

◆He picked her up and took her to her room.

◆He tucked her up in his bed and soon fell asleep.

◆ Kezia felt secure lying near her.

◆ She realized her father was not as big as a giant.

◆She felt the beating of her father’s loving and large heart.

◆Finally she realized her father was also very loving.