CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Kezia is afraid of the dark because when she’s asleep she sees a butcher with a knife smiling at her. When she wakes up from the nightmare she wants her grandmother to stay close to her. Kezia cannot stay alone in the dark because she feels the atmosphere gets scary and whispery.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer:’ it all gets ‘whispery’ ‘ means that when Kezia is in dark she feels her surroundings scary and the old nightmare of a butcher with knife and a rope troubles and frightens her which she can’t bear at all.

Detailed explanation-3: -Explanation of the above Passage: Kezia explained to Alice that whenever she had nightmares, she would go to her Grandmother and she would sleep with her. So, she said that she could not stay all alone in the dark because she would be scared.

Detailed explanation-4: -b) She got the nightmare as she was alone with her father at home and her mother and granny were in the hospital. Kezia in the story “The Little Girl” was afraid of her father because he never communicated with her.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ans: Being afraid of her father, Kezia hesitated to speak to him. Whenever she had to, she would stutter and sound different because her natural speech would be obstructed. He was so big – his hands and his neck, especially his mouth when he yawned. Thinking about him alone was like thinking about a giant.