Summary of the lesson the little girl
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It is a short story written by Katherine Mansfield. It is depicted around a little girl name Kazia. When her father used to get back from job, she used to remove his boots. She has a problem of stutter only when she talked to her father. One day her father was set for the speech to port authority board but he could not find the speech, Kazia has used that to fill the pin-cushion that she was planning to gift her father.
When he came to find that he got angry and punished Kezia for her mistake. There lived a McDonald's family in their neighbors. She was surprised to see how their father loves and cares about his children and they had no fear of him. A sudden change of event happen when her mother gets sick, and she goes to her father for comfort. She came to know he was not able to give time to the family cause of his busy schedule.
This shows how children expect their parents to be with their own strengths and weaknesses.
In the story, there was a little girl named Kezia. She lives with her father, her mother, and her grandmother. Also, she was afraid of his father and tries to avoid him all the time. Moreover, she feels comforted on seeing his father leaving for office.
She was so afraid of her father that she mumbles in front of him as he appeared to her as rude, critical, and harsh. Further, her grandmother sought her to understand her parents better that’s why she would encourage her to go to the drawing-room to chat with her parents. Then again she finds them cold towards her.
So, one fine day her grandmother suggested Kezia prepare a pin cushion for her father’s birthday.
Consequently, Kezia stitches the three sides of the pincushion casing. But after that, she needs to stuff the cushion with something. That’s why she goes to her mother’s room 6 number the bed table, there she finds many sheets of fine paper.
Then she torn the paper into small pieces and filled the pincushion and sew up the forth side. However, she doesn’t that those papers contain her father’s very important speech for the Port Authority. Although she accepted her mistake and tries to explain the reason why she does it.
But her father was too angry to listen to her reason and punished her with a ruler on her palm. However, she failed to understand why she met out to punishment even after she accepted her mistake. Terribly she said, “What did God make father for?”
Most importantly, one evening she saw Mr. McDonalds, playing with her 5 children, laughing and enjoying with them. This event influenced Kezia that all fathers are not similar. She concluded, that some father is caring and loving like Mr. McDonald and some are harsh like her father.
However, her attitude towards her father changed. Someday, her mother needs to be hospitalized and her grandmother goes with her. So, Kezia was alone in the house with the cook. The day went fine but the night was a different issue. In the middle of the night, she woke up of fear screaming and weeping as she had a terrible nightmare. When Kezia opened her eyes she saw her father right next to her. Her father carried her to his bedroom and made her comfortable and warm on his bed. Further, her father told her to rub her feet with his legs and set them warm. She spends the night with him feeling comfortable and safe.
After that, she realized that her father was not a bad person. And he loves and cares for her in his own way. Moreover, he had to work a whole day to provide for his family and was too weary by evening to play with her.