Question

why was kezia severely punished and beaten up by her father

Answer 1

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Kezia wanted to gift her dad a pin cushion for his birthday. She found some papers lying on a desk and decided to tear it up and fill the cushion with it.But those papers were for the important speech of her dad for the Ports authority and Kezia had tore it up. So he got angry and beat her with a ruler
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Answer 2

Name of the chapter - 'The Little Girl'

by - Katherine Mansfield

Answer -

Kezia's father punished her. Also, beat her because she had torn up some important papers of her father which were lying on the mother's bedroom table to stuff in the pin-cushion she was making as a birthday gift to present her father in his birthday. The paper contains a speech written for the port authority. But father lost his temper and punished her with a ruler to teach her a lesson.