Skip to main content

The Little Girl

The Little Girl is a short story by Katherine Mansfield given in the class 9 English course of NCERT. Maggie gave an assignment to her students based on the story and one of her students, Athena Baby Sabu, presented a brilliant job. She converted the story into a delightful comic strip.

Mansfield tells the story of Kezia who is the eponymous little girl. Kezia is scared of her father who wields a lot of control on the entire family. She is punished severely for an unwitting mistake which makes her even more scared of her father. Her grandmother is fond of her and is her emotional succour.

The grandmother is away from home one day with Kezia's mother who is hospitalised. Kezia gets her usual nightmare and is terrified. There is no one at home to console her except her father from whom she does not expect any consolation. But the father rises to the occasion and lets the little girl sleep beside him that night. She rests her head on her father's chest and can feel his heartbeats. "What a big heart you've got, Father dear," she tells her father.

Let me present Athena's work below which speaks eloquently for itself.


Athena Baby Sabu











xZx

Comments

  1. Vartika GoyalAugust 8, 2019 at 12:36 PM

    It reminds me of my childhood. Nice post

    ReplyDelete
  2. VartikaSeptember 11, 2019 at 7:20 PM

    Looks like an interesting read for kids, will check out. Looks like the pictures are self drawn and painted, good job done #vartikasdiaryreading #myfriendalexa

    ReplyDelete
  3. MonikaSeptember 14, 2019 at 11:51 AM

    Brilliant job .

    ReplyDelete
  4. UnknownAugust 24, 2020 at 10:22 AM

    It was very useful for me , I was having a activity to make a comic I was just thrilled to see this . It's awesome work 😊

    ReplyDelete
  5. unknownMay 19, 2021 at 6:50 PM

    the comic form of the little girl was amazingly represented it also helped me for my activity. I was very glad to be able to find your comic...thank you so much for your post.

    ReplyDelete
  6. UditaJuly 22, 2021 at 12:00 PM

    Very helpful
    Neat and nice work
    Thank you ❤️ helped a lott

    ReplyDelete
  7. UditaJuly 22, 2021 at 12:03 PM

    Thank you so much for uploading this it's very helpful very neat and nice work ❤️

    ReplyDelete
  8. UnknownAugust 16, 2021 at 7:25 PM

    Very very very nice and excellent

    ReplyDelete
  9. Sujatha SathyaJune 5, 2022 at 7:02 PM

    really really good job by Athena. what a talent! kudos to her!

    ReplyDelete
  10. IshaanJune 21, 2022 at 9:01 AM

    It was very useful for me , it helped me in making my comic strip holiday homework. Thank you !

    ReplyDelete
  11. ShilpaSeptember 5, 2022 at 12:25 AM

    I have never seen such a super work .super

    ReplyDelete
  12. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2023 at 8:22 PM

    Thank you for helping me in my home work

    ReplyDelete
  13. bangalore architectureSeptember 25, 2023 at 10:40 AM

    Thank you for sharing this informative post! It's always great to come across quality content like this. The insights you've provided are valuable and will be helpful for anyone interested in this topic. Keep up the good work!

    ReplyDelete
  14. powersamudraOctober 14, 2023 at 3:50 PM

    LPlanet Relationships

    ReplyDelete
  15. AnonymousMay 22, 2024 at 12:33 PM

    Thank you for keeping us informed. The blog posts are always engaging and full of useful information.

    https://bvwschool.com/draw-watercolor-painting-easy-for-beginners/

    ReplyDelete
  16. AnonymousJanuary 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM

    Photos are not clear 😔

    ReplyDelete
  17. AnonymousJune 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM

    Such ma yehh short summary mera bauth kam aaya

    ReplyDelete
  18. AnonymousJune 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM

    Fabulous 🤩

    ReplyDelete
  19. kotikfoundationAugust 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM


    Fantastic post! I truly enjoyed reading it. The insights you provided were not only informative but also engaging. Discover the best NGO in India for community
    empowerment. Kotik Foundation near me offers impactful programs that make a real difference. Join us for positive change and be part of something meaningful. Keep
    up the excellent work—I can’t wait to read more of your future posts!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Adventures of Toto as a comic strip

  'The Adventures of Toto' is an amusing story by Ruskin Bond. It is prescribed as a lesson in CBSE's English course for class 9. Maggie asked her students to do a project on some of the lessons and Femi George's work is what I would like to present here. Femi converted the story into a beautiful comic strip. Her work will speak for itself and let me present it below.  Femi George Student of Carmel Public School, Vazhakulam, Kerala Similar post: The Little Girl
47 comments
Read more

Don Bosco

Don Bosco (16 Aug 1815 - 31 Jan 1888) In Catholic parlance, which flows through my veins in spite of myself, today is the Feast of Don Bosco. My life was both made and unmade by Don Bosco institutions. Any great person can make or break people because of his followers. Religious institutions are the best examples. I’m presenting below an extract from my forthcoming book titled Autumn Shadows to celebrate the Feast of Don Bosco in my own way which is obviously very different from how it is celebrated in his institutions today. Do I feel nostalgic about the Feast? Not at all. I feel relieved. That’s why this celebration. The extract follows. Don Bosco, as Saint John Bosco was popularly known, had a remarkably good system for the education of youth.   He called it ‘preventive system’.   The educators should be ever vigilant so that wrong actions are prevented before they can be committed.   Reason, religion and loving kindness are the three pillars of that syste...
2 comments
Read more

Coffee can be bitter

The dawns of my childhood were redolent of filtered black coffee. We were woken up before the birds started singing in the lush green village landscape outside home. The sun would split the darkness of the eastern sky with its splinter of white radiance much after we children had our filtered coffee with a small lump of jaggery. Take a bite of the jaggery and then a sip of the coffee. Coffee was a ritual in our home back then. Perhaps our parents believed it would jolt our neurons awake and help us absorb our lessons before we set out on the 4-kilometre walk to school after all the morning rituals at home. After high school, when I left home for further studies at a distant place, the ritual of the morning coffee stopped. It resumed a whole decade later when I completed my graduation and took up a teaching job in Shillong. But I had lost my taste for filtered coffee by then; tea took its place. Plain tea without milk – what is known as red tea in most parts of India. Coffee ret...
18 comments
Read more

The Real Enemies of India

People in general are inclined to pass the blame on to others whatever the fault.  For example, we Indians love to blame the British for their alleged ‘divide-and-rule’ policy.  Did the British really divide India into Hindus and Muslims or did the Indians do it themselves?  Was there any unified entity called India in the first place before the British unified it? Having raised those questions, I’m going to commit a further sacrilege of quoting a British journalist-cum-historian.  In his magnum opus, India: a History , John Keay says that the “stock accusations of a wider Machiavellian intent to ‘divide and rule’ and to ‘stir up Hindu-Muslim animosity’” levelled against the British Raj made little sense when the freedom struggle was going on in India because there really was no unified India until the British unified it politically.  Communal divisions existed in India despite the political unification.  In fact, they existed even before the Briti...
16 comments
Read more

Relatives and Antidepressants

One of the scenes that remain indelibly etched in my memory is from a novel of Malayalam writer O V Vijayan. Father and little son are on a walk. Father tells son, “Walk carefully, son, otherwise you may fall down.” Son: “What will happen if I fall?” Father: "Relatives will laugh.” I seldom feel comfortable with my relatives. In fact, I don’t feel comfortable in any society, but relatives make it more uneasy. The reason, as I’ve understood, is that your relatives are the last people to see any goodness in you. On the other hand, they are the first ones to discover all your faults. Whenever certain relatives visit, my knees buckle and the blood pressure shoots up. I behave quite awkwardly. They often describe my behaviour as arising from my ego, which used to be a oversized in yesteryear. I had a few such visitors the other day. The problem was particularly compounded by their informing me that they would be arriving by about 3.30 pm and actually reaching at about 7.30 pm. ...
16 comments
Read more