ANSWER KEY

1. Because he never talked to her lovingly, never played with her, always kept
finding faults with her.
2. He would give Kezia a goodbye kiss.
3. Sit in the drawing room ,have tea and read the newspaper.
4. He would stretch himself on the sofa in the drawing room ,put his handkerchief on
his face and his feet on cushion , sleep soundly and snore.
5. So that she could know her father better.
6. A pin cushion
7. With sheets of paper torn into small pieces.
8. Kezia’s father had written a speech on some papers. Kezia took up those papers
to fill in the cushion that she had made for her father to be gifted on his birthday.
When she didn't find anything, tap the pin cushion with sweets which she found in
her parents .
9. One day she was suffering from cold. She was kept indoors. Father’s birthday was
next week. Her grandmother suggested that you should present a pin cushion to
your father. So she started making the pin cushion.
10. She found some sheets of paper in her father's bedroom. She tore them into
pieces and stuffed the pin cushion with those pieces. The stuffing was very important
for her father. It was an important speech to be presented the next morning in his
office but the little girl did not know about it.
11. Kezia saw that Mr McDonald was playing with his children. They were running
around the flower beds. Baby Mao was on his shoulders. The two little girls were
hanging on to his coat pocket. They were very happy.
12. Kezia’s father went to the office early in the morning. Before going, he went to
Kezia’s room. He gave her a kiss. She said goodbye to her father.
13. Kezia’s father returned home in the evening. It was a noisy affair. He raised his
voice on entering the house. Kezia’s mother asked her to take off her father's shoes.
14. When Kezia’s returned home from the office, the mother would tell Kezia to come
downstairs and take off her father's shoes. Also she told her to take the shoes
outside. Further, she was ordered by father to put his teacup back on the table.
15. Kezia never enjoyed the company of her dominating father. He always scolded
her for one thing or the other and never appreciated or loved her. She was so
frightened of him that she went very slowly towards the drawing room when she was
asked to come downstairs to take off his shoes.

16. Kezia’s father had a domineering personality and frequent scolding of the father
made her lose her self-confidence. She was always under pressure to please him,
she had to search hard for appropriate words in her mind while talking to him. This
pressure made her daughter stutter in his presence.
17. Kezia felt that her father was like a joint because he had very big hands and
neck. He seemed big especially when he spoke. In addition, his stone and cold
behaviour made the little girl think of him as a giant.

18. She would gravely watch her father until he woke up and stretched to ask the
time.

19. He would look at her and tell her not to stare at him as it made her look like a
brown owl.

20. Grandmother of to Kezia to make up in cushion out of a beautiful piece of yellow

silk as a birthday present for her father. She wanted the little girl to present the pin
cushion as a surprise gift and make her father happy This could possibly bring them
both close to each other.

21. Nobody knew that Kezia had mistakenly torn the papers that had her father's
great speech for the Port Authority. She had stuffed them in the pin cushion that was
to be a surprise gift for her father on his birthday. The hue and cry that night was for
those missing papers.

22. Kezia was dragged down to the dining room at night to be scolded in front of her
father who was extremely angry as she had torn papers that had his great speech for
the Port Authority.
23. Kezia was wrong in tearing the papers of her father because they formed his
important speech for the Port Authority. She should not have used any of his things
without his permission.
24. After Kezia’s father hit her with ruler, her grandmother wrapped the little girl in a
shawl and dropped her in the rocking chair, the child clinging to her soft body. She
gave her a clean hanky to blow her nose and tried to put her to sleep comforting her
with affectionate words.
25. Kezia questioned Why God made father's because she was very upset with her
father's strict behaviour. She felt that he was too harsh and unforgiving. He did not
give her even one chance to explain herself.
26. Kezia’s grandmother always tried to bridge the gap between Kezia and her
parents, especially her father. She told Kezia that her father was too upset that night
to listen to her because she didn't want the little girl to nurture any grudge against
her father.
27. Father punished Kezia by hitting hard on her little pink palms with the ruler. The
impact of this punishment was so strong that Kezia could never forget it. Next time
when she saw him, at once hid her hands behind her back and her cheeks flushed
with fear.
28. The McDonald's
29. She observed that Mr McDonald played fully with his children. He laughed when
they turned the hose on him and ran about flower beds with his young son, Mao, on
his shoulders and his two little daughter's hanging onto his coat pockets.
30. Kezia observed at McDonalds was a Jolly fellow who played and enjoyed the
company of his children. Contrary to this, Kezia’s father was domineering and
oppressive and never showed any affection for failure.
31. One day Kezia’s mother had suddenly taken in and had to be hospitalized.
Granny too went along to look after her in the hospital. Kezia was then left at home
and Alice was there to take care of the little girl in the absence of elders.
32. When Alice put Kezia to bed at night, the little girl suddenly got afraid as she had
to sleep alone. She told that she was scared of darkness and often had nightmares
at night. Earlier granny would take her into her bed but today she was alone.
33. Usually, Kezia had horrible, frightening dreams. In her nightmare, she saw a
butcher with a knife and a rope. The butcher came closer and closer to her with the
dreadful smile while she stood still overpowered by fear.
34. When she got scared in her sleep, father came to her room, lifted her in his arms,
took her to his bed and made her sleep close to him. He allowed her to warm her
feet against his legs. She felt secured and protected as she snuggled up to him.
35. She felt that her father underwent a change for the better when her father came
to the rescue when she had a nightmare and carried her to his room, carefully her off
and slept beside her. Kezia felt reassured and safe and snuggled up to him. That is
when she realised that her father had changed.