what do you think about the story and climax? (A Face in the Dark)
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In “A Face in the Dark”, Ruskin Bond ends the story when it reaches its climax. Climax is the most intense, exciting, or important point of something.
In the present story the protagonist Mr. Oliver is an Anglo-Indian teacher in an English public school at Simla, Himachal Pradesh. One evening he was returning to his school from the Simla bazaar all alone through a pine forest as he usually does. A supernatural atmosphere has been created in the form of a dark night where the pine trees were making an eerie sound with the high wind flowing through them. Mr. Oliver was carrying a torch but its batteries were running down. Oliver was walking down the narrow forest path when he encounters two paranormal figures in the form of a boy and a watchman both of whom had no eyes, ears, nose or mouth on their face.
When Mr. Oliver came across the boy sitting on a rock alone, it seemed quite natural and Oliver rather angrily asked him what he was doing there at that hour. But moments later, he sensed that there was something wrong as the boy was crying silently with his head hung down and face hidden by his hands. But the shock came when Oliver asked the boy to look up and the boy looked up at his teacher. Oliver was terrified to see that the boy had no features on his face.
It was just a round smooth head.
The narrator mentions this is where the story should have ended. And if it did, this point would have been the climax of the story. But no, the author had other ideas. He wanted to take the story to another height with even more intense and exciting events waiting for the readers.