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With reference to Ruskin Bond's short story 'A Face in the Dark', identify with the character of Mr. Oliver/put yourself in his place in the given circumstances (plot line) of the story and explain your(his) actions in about 300-400 words. no​

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With reference to Ruskin Bond's short story 'A Face in the Dark', identify with the character of Mr. Oliver/put yourself in his place in the given circumstances (plot line) of the story and explain your(his) actions in about 150 words .

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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 “Eton 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!”

Once four cousins traveled to a town to visit their grandmother. Grandma was very pleased to see her grandsons and prepared a lot of attractive dishes for her grandsons.

The four cousins were very happy to taste the delicious foods and enjoyed themselves eating and playing in the garden of their grandma. One day they planned to go for an outing by cycles to visit an old and deserted fort located nearby. After researching there, they visited the fort.

The building was in a bad shape for the want of maintenance. They went inside quietly. They found four people quarreling in the corner of a room.

They had a bag with them with full of money and jewelry.They suspected them as rubbers. Immediately, they rushed home and informed their grandma about. Grandma with her grandchildren rushed to the police station nearby and informed them about the robber and robbery.

Police took action immediately and nabbed the robbers. Later, Mayor of the town rewarded the children for their brevity.