The Little Girl - Summary
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This story is about a little girl named Kezia who always afraid from her father. Her feelings for her father also changes after an incident. She lived with her mother, her father and her grandmother. She used to feel relieved on seeing her father go to his office. She always wanted to avoid his presence. He appeared to her as harsh, rude, and critical. Her grandmother wanted her to understand her parents better, and would ask her to go to the drawing room to chat with her parents. But she found them indifferent towards her. As she always found her reading and her father stretched out on the sofa.
One day grandmother suggested that she should prepare a pin cushion for her father’s birthday. Kezia stitched the three sides of the pin cushion casing. Now she wanted to stuff it with some thing.Her grandmother was out in the garden and she went to her mother's room. There she found some sheets of fine paper. Then she tore them up into small pieces and stuffed her case and finally stitched the fourth side. By mistake she had used the very papers which contained her father’s very important speech for the Port Authority. Though she accepted her mistake and tried to explain the reasons behind it, her father was too angry to listen to anything and punished her with a ruler on her palms.
She failed to understand the punishment met out to her when she had already accepted her mistake. Bitterly she said,"What did God make fathers for ".
One evening she saw Mr. McDonalds, playing with his 5 children, laughing and enjoying , with them. This convinced Kezia that all fathers are not alike. Some are loving and caring . Then it was she decided there were different sorts of father.
But soon her attitude towards her father also changed. One day, her mother had to be taken to the hospital and her grandmother accompanied her. Kezia was left alone in the house with the cook. That was all right in the daytime but she woke up in the middle of the night screaming as she had a horrible nightmare 'Grandma! Grandma!'. She started weeping out of fear. When she opened her eyes, she saw her father beside her bed. He carried her to his bedroom, and made her warm and comfortable and laid down beside . Father told her to rub her feet with his legs and set them warm. She felt very safe and comfortable with him.
It was now she realized that her father was not all that of a-giant. She then said to herself "What a big heart you have got".And he loved and cared for her in his own way. That he had to work the whole day to provide for his family and thus became tired by the evening.
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