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Sai International School

Grade IX- English

Module – 9, The Little Girl (Prose)

By Katherine Mansfield

Introduction to ‘The Little Girl’

The title of the story refers to the main character that we will come
across- the little girl named Kezia. The theme of the story is the
relationship between children and their parents and the writer Katherine
Mansfield wants to tell us that children share a very important bond of
love with their parents. Although when children are small or when they
are young, they do not feel that their parents love them because their
parents are strict and many actions of the parents seem unjustified. But
as children grow up they realise that all the acts done by their parents
were beneficial for them. The parents were concerned for them and
beneath the strictness, lies a heart full of love for the children. And this
bond of love between parents and their children has been highlighted
through this story.

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