Question

the story ends with thriling climex ' why? the face in dark

Answer 1

The very title of the story, “A Face in the Dark” itself speaks of its appropriateness. Mr. Oliver on his way to school, on a windy night, encounters a boy sitting alone on a rock in the forest. Mr. Oliver, having expressed concern for the boy asks the boy for the reason to be out of school at that moment in that condition. Having asked the boy to raise his face, Mr. Oliver finds that the boy is faceless and featureless. He had no eyes, ears, nose or mouth; Mr. Oliver runs for safely and bumps upon the watchman who was then coming on the way with a lantern. In reply to the watchman’s question of why Mr. Oliver was running, Mr. Oliver replies the awful experience and to his utter suprise and dismay, finds the watchman too faceless and feature less. Thus we find that boy and the watchman, who appeared to be having a ‘face’ in the dark, did not have a face when seen in the light. Ruskin Bond in one article says, “After dark we see and hear many things that seem mysterious and irrational and then, by the clear light of the day, we find that the magic and the mystery have an explanation after all.”

Answer 2

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