L-3 THE LITTLE GIRL
THE LITTLE GIRL
INTRODUCTION OF AUTHOR
Katherine Mansfield is the author of this chapter. She was one of the most highly regarded short story writers.
She was born on 14 October 1888 and was died on 9 January 1923 in New Zealand. She wrote under the pen name Katherine Mansfield. As well as short stories she also wrote letters,review and,journals in a profile career which was cut short by her untimely death at the age of 34.
INTRODUCTION OF LESSON
Kezia is a little girl and her father is a leading character of this lesson.Her father is so busy in his business that he doesn't have time for his family. He is strict father as well as a strict husband. His presence in home afraid Kezia,she became speechless.But he has a heart of a loving father.
The MacDonalds , lived next to door made an exuberant, lively, playful family. Kezia saw five children playing with their father, turning a hose at him and the father tickling the children.Now She compares her father to the father of the children.
But in the end of the story he was proved to be a good and loving father.
Very Short Answers
Q-1 Who was the little girl?
Ans- Kezia
Q-2 Whom did the little girl fear and avoid?
Ans - Her father
Q- 3How did the little girl feel when her father left for his office in the morning?
Ans- She felt happy and relieved.
Q-4 Why did she shutter before her father?
Ans- Because she had no courage to speak properly in front of her father.
Q-5 Who sent her down to the drawing- room on Sunday afternoons ?
Ans-Her grandmother.
Q-6 What did she see in the drawing room?
Ans- She saw her mather reading and father was sleeping on the sofa.
Q- 7 Why did she not disturb her father?
Ans-Because she didn't have courage to disturb him.
Q-8 On what occasion did Kezia's grandmother ask her to present a gift to her father ?
Ans - On the occasion of her father's birthday.
Q-9 Where did the little girl find the scraps?
Ans- She found it in her mother's bedroom.
Q-10 What gift did Kezia prepare for her father ?
Ans- She prepared a pin- cushion for her father.
Q-11 Why did father come into the little girl's room ?
Ans- Because he wanted to punish her for her mistake.
Q-12 Why was the little girl sobbing ?
Ans- Because she was beaten by her father.
Q-13 Who was the MacDonald family?
Ans- They were Kezia's next- door neighbors.
Q-14 Who was Alice?
Ans- Alice was a cook.
Q-15 What did the little girl see in her nightmare ?
Ans- She saw a butcher with a knife and a rope.
Q-16 What did the little girl think about her father' s hardness ?
Ans- It was a nice hardness.
Q-17 When was her fear of her father removed away from heart ?
Ans-When she put her head on her father's heart.
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