Class 9- English -Beehive – Chapter 3
Chapter-3
I. Given below are some emotions that Kezia felt. Match the emotions in Column A with the items in Column B.
| A | B |
|---|---|
| 1. fear or terror | (iii) father comes home (iv) speaking to father (v) going to bed when alone at home (vii) father stretched out on the sofa, snoring |
| 2. glad sense of relief | (i) father comes into her room to give her a goodbye kiss (ii) noise of the carriage grows fainter |
| 3. a “funny” feeling, perhaps of understanding | (vi) father comforts her and falls asleep |
II. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
1. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
Kezia was afraid of her father because he used to talk with her arrogantly. He was in a habit to find out her mistakes.
2. Who were the people in Kezia’s family?
There were five members in the family including Father, Mother, Grandmother, Alice the cook and Kezia herself.
3. What was Kezia’s father’s routine
(i) before going to his office?
(ii) after coming back from his office?
(i) He used to kiss Kezia casually before going to his office.
(ii) He would ask for the newspaper and tea after coming back from his office.
4. In what ways did Kezia’s grandmother encourage her to get to know her father better?
Kezia’s grandmother sent her to her father’s room to have a nice talk with him. Besides, she asked her to make a gift of a pin-cushion on her father’s birthday.
III. Discuss these questions in class with your teacher and then write down your answers in two or three paragraphs each.
1. Kezia’s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did this happen?
Kezia was told by her grand mother that her father’s birthday was falling next week and she should make him a pin cushion for a gift. Kezia stiched three sides of the case of a pin cushion with a double cotton. she further looked for scraps and found many sheets of fine paper on the bed in her mother’s bedroom she collected them and put them into tiny pieces to stuff her case. then she sewed up the fourth side.
Unfortunetly those paper contained her father’s great speech for the Port authority. when her father came to know about it. she got a beating from her father.
2. Kezia decides that there are “different kinds of fathers”. What kind of father was Mr Macdonald, and how was he different from Kezia’s father?
Mr. Macdonald was of jovial nature. He used to play around with his kids. On the other hand Kezia’s father was never seen in a playful mood and was always serious. He always scolded Kezia for seemingly minor mistakes. This was his way of bringing up a child.
3. How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
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.