Page 1 - The Little Girl- lesson notes

SAI International School

Class IX - English

Chapter- The Little Girl

Lesson Notes

This is a story of a little girl –Kezia who is extremely afraid of her father.
Being an over disciplined man, he was strict with Kezia as well. He
never had those soft feelings for his little daughter nor he pet her for a

while. She always stuttered when she talked to him. She longed to play
with her father but she knew that it was impossible as he was very busy
and had no time for his family. However, one day Kezia’s father changed
and she felt his love for her.

(stutter = to have speech problem causes you to repeat the beginning
sound of some words)

This story depicts the relationship between father and daughter. The
little girl Kezia is much afraid of her father. She always stutters when she
talks to him. She has to take off her father’s boots when he gets home
from work but he is not satisfied with that. Kezia always went to the
church with her father on Sunday’s. On Sunday afternoon grandmother
sent Kezia down to the drawing room to have a nice talk with father and

mother but father would be taking nap and mother would be reading.

One day grandmother told Kezia that t was father’s birthday the next
week. Kezia decided to make pin cushion to present to her father as a
birthday gift. She had nothing to fill it with. She went into mother’s
bedroom to look for scraps. She found there many sheets of paper and
tore them into pieces and stuffed the case. She did not know that they

were the important papers of her father. Father found out the truth and
whipped Kezia with a ruler. The child never forgot that.

One day Kezia looked through a gap in neighbouring house. Father was
playing with 5 children. They looked very happy. When compared with
her scary father who never played with her. Kezia saw the height of love
between father and children next door and she loved their family.

One day mother became ill and Kezia was left alone with Alice in the
house. Alice put her to bed, but Kezia was afraid to make noise because
she would wake her father. But Kezia really had a nightmare. Father
came and took her into the bedroom. Tired out, father slept before the