Discuss these questions in class with your teacher and then write down your answers in two or three paragraphs each.

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

When Kezia’s mother fell ill, she was left alone in the house with Alice, the cook as grandmother went to the hospital. The daytime went on but as Alice was putting her to bed at night, she suddenly grew afraid as the thoughts of the nightmares she experienced kept on disturbing her. However, Alice consoled her and made her sleep.

Unfortunately, Kezia’s worst fears came true and she experienced the same old nightmare of the butcher and a knife. As she woke up screaming “grandma grandma”, she saw her father beside her bed. Her father immediately took her in his arms and carried her to the big bedroom and lay beside her. With the thought of the butcher still on her mind, she crept close to her father, snuggled her head under his arm and held tightly to his shirt. The father asked Kezia to rub her feet against his legs to keep them warm and fell asleep with her.

In that beautiful moment, Kezia understood the magnitude of the hard work her father did everyday which left him too tired to become like “Mr. Macdonald”. As she trembled and sighed, she expressed her transformed feelings by telling her father about the beauty of the ‘big heart’ he had.