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Discuss These Question in Class with Your Teacher and Then Write Down Your Answerin Two Or Three Paragraphs .How Does Kezia Begin to See Her Father as a Human Being Who Needs Her Sympathy?

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Discuss these question in class with your teacher and then write down your answer
in two or three paragraphs .

How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?

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With her mother and grandmother at the hospital, Kezia is left at home in the care of Alice, the cook. At night, after she is put to bed by the cook, she has a nightmare. She calls for her grandmother but, to her surprise, she finds her father standing near her bed. He takes her in his arms and makes her sleep next to him. Half asleep, she creeps close to him, snuggles her head under his arm, and holds tightly to his shirt. Her father asks her to rub her feet against his legs for warmth. Her father goes off to sleep before her. This makes her understand that he has to work hard every day and this leaves him too tired to be like Mr Macdonald. She expresses her altered feelings for her father by telling him that he has a ‘big heart’.
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Chapter 3.1: The Little Girl - Thinking about the Text [Page 38]

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Chapter 3.1 The Little Girl
Thinking about the Text | Q 3.3 | Page 38

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