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The Eyes Have It by Ruskin Bond

Q.

1."You have an interesting face". - who said this and to whom did he say? How did the person spoken react?How did the speaker mend his comment? [1+3+2]

Or, ."You have an interesting face". - Explain with reference to the context.[6]

Ans: The line is extracted from Ruskin Bond's brilliant short story "The Eyes Have It".

◼️ The narrator in Ruskin Bond's short story "The Eyes Have It" said this to girl, his co-passenger in the train compartment.

◼️ The narrator was all alone in his train compartment. At Rohana a girl got in. The narrator expected a zestful conversation with her. It was he who first broke the silence. Despite being blind, the narrator was always curious to discover about the girl's beauty and looks. In  course of that  conversation he remarked - "You have an interesting face". The girl relished this remark with a pleasant, ringing laugh. His compliment was appreciated by the girl who took it as a genuine deviation from the oft-quoted phrase used against her name, i.e. she possesses a "pretty face". The adjective 'interesting' proved to quite new to her. 

◼️ The sightless narrator knew that girl had a pretty face and mended his comment by saying that an interesting face could also be a pretty face.



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