Discuss these questions in class with your teacher and then write down your
answers in two or three paragraphs each.
1. Kezia's efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much
How did this happen?
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?
3. How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her II.
sympathy?
Answers
Answer:
1. Kezia's efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him because one day her grandmother told her that her father's birthday would be next week and suggested that she should make a pin cushion as a beautiful gift. After stitching the three sides of the cushion with double cotton with great care and effort, Kezia was stuck to fill the cushion with. Since her grandmother was busy in garden, she searched for mother's bedroom for scraps. Finally she discovered sheets of paper on the bed table, she gathered these, tore them up and filled the cushions with the torn pieces.
Unfortunately, her efforts to please her father not only went in vain but also had an unanticipated consequence. This was because the sheets she had tore were father's speech for the Port Authority. Her father scolded her for touching things that did not belong to her and punished her by hitting her palm with a ruler.
2. Kezia compared her father with Mr.Macdonald, her next door neighbour. He was a loving, gentle and forgiving father. He was always smiling and playing with his children. He treated his children in a friendly manner.
He was just opposite to Kezia's father. Unlike Kezia's father he never punished his children. He played with them whenever he was free Kezia's father was very harsh and a strict disciplinarian.
3. With the mother and grandmother at the hospital, Kezia was left at home at the care of Alice, the cook. At night after she is put to bed by the cook, she had a big nightmare. She calls for her grandmother but, to her surprise, she finds her father standing near her bed. He takes her in his arm and makes her sleep next to him.
Her father goes off to sleep before her. This makes her understand they he has to work everyday and this leaves him too tired to be like Mr.Macdonald. She expresses her alter feelings for her father by telling him that he has a 'big heart'.
Hope it helps you........