describe the encounter of mr. oliver with the 'faces of the dark'. what is your opinion? class 9
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In Ruskin Bond’s short story “A Face in the Dark”, Mr. Oliver’s encounter with a boy and later on with the watchman both of whom had a ’round smooth head’ with no features at all constitutes the entire plot of the story. Like other days, Mr. Oliver, an Anglo-Indian teacher at a English public school at Simla was returning back to school from the Simla Bazaar one night. He was walking down the narrow path through a pine forest all alone while other people used to avoid this lonely path due to the eerie sounds made by the pine trees in strong wind. He was carrying a torch but the batteries were running down. Suddenly, the flickering light of his torch fell on the figure of a boy who was sitting on a rock all alone.
Mr. Oliver was seemingly angry at the boy as he was not supposed to be out after dark and it was against the rules of the school. So, Oliver threw a sharp question at him:
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