Parent-child relationships

Father punished Kezia without understanding her intention. In exams connect the moral question with sensitivity.

Grandmother encourages Kezia to connect with father. In exams write her as a mediating and motivating character.

Kezia sees her father as huge and overpowering. This exaggerated image makes her fear and sense of helplessness more vivid and intense. The description is not meant to make the father humorous. Exam tip: Link a character's physical description with the feelings and viewpoint of the narrator or observer.

Both fathers express love in different ways. In exams write the difference in the language of love.

This incident reveals father's affection and responsibility. In exams remember it as character evidence.

At the end Kezia understands father's love through experience. In exams connect resolution with experience and safety.

The governing concept is empathy: adults should consider a child’s intention, imagination and emotional limitations before judging the action. Kezia makes a pin-cushion for her grandmother and fills it with the papers she finds, not realising that they are her father’s important speech notes. Her intention is affectionate and creative, but her father sees only the damage and punishes her. The episode clearly shows what happens when an adult notices the result but fails to understand the child’s mind and purpose. Option A is correct because it contains both the loving intention and the painful punishment. Macdonald’s playfulness provides a contrast, while the other two choices are not the central episode in which this need is demonstrated.

Kezia understands father's affection through the night experience. In exams treat experience as the key to understanding.

Kezia was blamed by looking at the result. In exams write the message of understanding intention before judgment.

Kezia's father shows love through support even while speaking little. In exams write the expression of hidden love.

The night experience changes Kezia's idea about father. In exams write the relation between experience and understanding.

The father is not only strict; he also has affection and responsibility. In exams do not write a one-sided character sketch.

Kezia understands her father's love through experience. In exams treat experience as the factor that removes misunderstanding.

The father speaks little but shows love in crisis. In exams do not directly treat silence as lovelessness.

Kezia's intention was loving but was not understood. In exams connect intention with parental sensitivity.

There is affection behind the father's outer strictness. In exams do not conclude only on the basis of appearance.

Macdonald shows open love and Kezia's father shows silent affection. In exams understand the meaning of comparison.

Kezia's belief changes after feeling safe near her father. In exams write safe experience as the cause of emotional change.

The father supports Kezia without many words. In exams identify love through behaviour, not only words.

At the end Kezia understands father's love through the experience of safety. In exams connect final understanding with experience and affection.