Question

A face in the dark by Ruskin Bond - I dint get the theme of the story?

Answer 1

The main theme of the story "A Face in the Dark" by Ruskin Bond is
                                            Supernatural Element

The story has hues of supernatural elements. Mr.Oliver,the protagonist has been described as a man who is not easily given to nervousness or imagination.

On that particular night, it was dark and stormy and because of being a bachelor and lonely, it led him to imagine something supernatural like a boy without face, a kind of ghost. A boy's school cap might be lying on a rock, which Oliver, in the flickering light of his torch, imagined to be a faceless boy. Again it was his fear that made him imagine the watchman too as being faceless.

The story ends with a sense of ambiguity, making the readers ponder over the question whether it were ghosts, which Oliver encountered or whether it was a prank played upon him by a mischievous student.

Answer 2

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A face in the dark
Writer Ruskin Bond