Summary of chapter A face in dark
From class 10th ( ICSE BOARD)
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The story “A Face in the Dark” by Ruskin Bond is set in Simla, a town in Himachal Pradesh, India where an Anglo-Indian teacher Mr. Oliver teaches in a reputed English public school which is regarded as the “Eaton of the East”. He is a bachelor and goes to the market some three miles away in the evening and returns back to school at night on a daily basis. He takes the short cut way through the pine forest.
On the day of the story when he is returning late at night, the strong wind is making an eerie sound through the pine trees and the batteries of his torch is running down. Suddenly, he comes across a boy who is crying silently with his head hung down, sitting on a rock. Following a number of questions from the teacher, when the boy finally looks up, Mr. Oliver sees that the boy has no eyes, ears, nose or mouth on his face. “It was just a round smooth head – with a school cap on top of it!”
Panicked by the horrified scene, Mr. Oliver runs down the path calling for help. He finally stops when he sees the watchman swinging a lantern on his way. Oliver tells the watchman what he has seen. But soon after, he finds out in the light of the lantern that the watchman too has no eyes, ears, nose or mouth. Then the wind blows the lamp out
Short summary
Face in the Dark is a prose piece written by Ruskin Bond .
The story revolves around an incident which Mr. Oliver came across.
Mr.Oliver was a teacher in an Anglo Indian School who was returning to his school and he took the shortcut through the pine forest.
Although the pine forest was earlier reported to have eerie sounds , Mr Oliver was not a nervous man.
So he took the shortcut and after a few minutes he came across a boy who was sitting on a rock .
Mr Oliver became angry because boys were not supposed to be out after the dark.
Hence Mr Oliver went close and then he noticed him crying .
His anger turned to concern and as soon as he asked the boy to look up , he noticed that the boy's face had no eyes , no mouth and only a cap.
He was very scared and ran at top speed when he came across another watchman.
The watchman asked him and took the lantern close to his eyes.
Suddenly , the watchman's eyes was also seen like that - having no eyes , no mouth .
Soon the wind blew off the lamp .
This way the story ends.