Question

Pick any 3 phrases or lines from the text which show Kezia’s fear of her father.

Answer 1

Explanation:

3 phrases from the story 'The Little Girl' That shows Kezia's fear

1. Whenever every morning his father used for go away she used to throw a heavy breath of relief listening that the carriage sound faded away gradually.
2. When Father came to beat her up for the mistake she had done by tearing the paper pieces she hid under the bedclothes to protect herself from father and hide from him.
3. She used to put her hands at back after the incident of tearing the large speech paper of the father to make a pin cushion for the birthday of her father but father was so humiliated that even her grandmother could not convince her.

• But at last when her mother was ill and she was alone in the house her father kept her safe and protected her from her nightmares. The chapter ends as she says that fathers are harder than grannies but this is a nice hardness.