class 9th English ch 03
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Thinking about the Text
I. Given below are some emotions that Kezia felt. Match the emotions in Column A with the items in Column B.
A B
1. fear or terror
2. glad sense of relief
3. a “funny” feeling, perhaps of understanding (i) father comes into her room to give her a goodbye kiss
(ii) noise of the carriage grows fainter
(iii) father comes home
(iv) speaking to father
(v) going to bed when alone at home
(vi) father comforts her and falls asleep
(vii) father stretched out on the sofa, snoring
Answer:
A B
1. fear or terror
2. glad sense of relief
3. a “funny” feeling, perhaps of understanding (iv) speaking to father
(iii) father comes home
(v) going to bed when alone at home
(vii) father stretched out on the sofa, snoring
(i) father comes into her room to give her a goodbye kiss
(ii) noise of the carriage grows fainter
(vi) father comforts her and falls asleep
II. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 1. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
Answer: Kezia was afraid of her father because he was extremely strict and commanding. He never played with her. He used to give her a terrifying look over his spectacles.
Question 2. Who were the people in Kezia’s family?
Answer: Kezia’s family comprised her father, mother and grandmother and herself.
Question 3. What was Kezia’s father’s routine?
(i) before going to his office?
(ii) after coming back from his office?
(iii) on Sundays?
Answer: i) Before going to office, Kezia’s father would come to Kezia’s room and give her a goodbye kiss.
ii) After coming back from his office, he would order his tea to be brought to the drawing room and would ask his mother to get his papers and slippers. He would then order Kezia to take off his boots.
iii) On Sundays, he would stretch out on the sofa with his handkerchief on his face, his feet on one of the best cushions, sleep and snore.
Question 4. In what ways did Kezia’s grandmother encourage her to get to know her father better?
Answer: Kezia’s grandmother would encourage her to know her father better by asking her to go down to the drawing room and have a nice talk with her father. She also asked Kezie to stitch a pin-cushion out of a beautiful yellow silk piece and give it to her father as a birthday present.
II. Discuss these questions in class with your teacher and then write down your answers in two or three paragraphs each.
Question 1. Kezia’s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did this happen?
Answer: Kezie stitched three sides of the pin-cushion. She was confused at what to fill the cushion with. Grandmother was not around. So, Kezie went to her parents’ room to ask her mother for some scrap. But, her mother wasn’t there in the room.
Kezie then saw some sheets of papers on the bed table. She collected them all, tore them into small pieces and stuffed the cushion with those pieces.
Her efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much when at night her father searched for those sheets of paper on the bed table. The sheets of paper had the speech for Port Authority. Her father scolded and beat her with a ruler for touching things that did not belong to her.
Question 2. Kezia decides that there are “different kinds of fathers”. What kind of father was Mr Macdonald, and how was he different from Kezia’s father?
Answer: Kezia decides that there are “different kinds of fathers”.
Mr Macdonald was a loving father. He was very gentle and forgiving. He used to play and laugh with his children. He was friendly with them.
He was quite different from Kezia’s father. Her father was very strict and unfriendly.
Question 3. How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
Answer: One day, when her mother and grandmother were at the hospital, Kezia was left at home with Alice, their cook. At night, she had a nightmare. Shivering with fear, she called for her grandmother but saw her father near her bed. He took her in his arms and carefully tucked her on his bed. He then lay down beside her. Half asleep, she went close to him, snuggled her head under his arm and held onto his shirt tightly.
She saw her father go off to sleep before her. She understood that he had to work so hard every day which made him too tired to behave like Mr Macdonald. She told his father that he had a big heart.