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The Eyes Have It
Ruskin Bond
Long Questions Answers
1. “I’m tired of people telling me I have a pretty face.” -Who said this to whom and when? What did the person spoken to reply?
Ans: The blind girl in Ruskin Bond’s story ‘The Eyes Have It” said this to the narrator when he appreciated her pretty face.
After talking with the girl for sometime, the blind narrator became daring for he was desperate to know about the girl’s looks. So he remarked that the girl had an interesting face. At that time the blind girl said the quoted line.
The narrator, the person spoke to, expressed his assumption that she would have a pretty face. He also told that an interesting face can also be pretty.
2. “She would forget our brief encounter” –Who said this and about whom? What is the ‘brief encounter’, referred to here? Why did the speaker think so?
Ans: The narrator of Ruskin Bond’s story ‘The Eyes Have It” said this line about the blind girl who was in the same compartment with the speaker in the train.
During a train journey the narrator met a girl in his compartment. He talked with her about many things for sometime and became curious about her looks. The ‘brief encounter’ was that meeting and journey together of the narrator and the blind girl in the same compartment of the train from Rohana to Saharanpur.
Though the speaker got highly impressed on the very presence of the girl in the compartment but the girl is not found to be like him. At the time of getting down at Saharanpur she only uttered ‘good bye’. For that reason perhaps the narrator thought that she would forget their meeting.
3. “Then I made a mistake.” — What ‘mistake’ did the speaker make? Why it a ‘mistake’? What removed the speaker’s doubt? What did the speaker do then?
Ans: The mistake was that the narrator of Ruskin Bond’s story “The Eyes Have It” asked the girl what it was like outside.
The narrator was blind but he was behaving with the girl as if he was not blind. And it was a mistake because it could have made the girl realize that the narrator was blind as normally a sighted person do not ask such questions to others.
When the girl asked him to look out of the window and see for himself, the speaker’s doubts were removed.
The speaker then moved easily along the berth and felt for the window ledge and pretended to study the landscape outside.
4. “She was an interesting girl” — Who said this to whom and when? What else did the person say? What reply did he get?
Ans: The narrator in the story “The Eyes Have It” said this to his fellow passenger who entered the compartment after the girl had left. In reply to the new passenger’s remark that he was not as attractive a travelling companion as the one who had just left, the narrator said the quoted line.
Except that the person enquired about the girl’s hair whether it was long or short.
In reply the new companion said that it was the girl’s eyes that he noticed not her hair. She had very beautiful eyes but they were of no use to her. She was completely blind.
5. “… the girl got up and began to collect her things.” — Who is the girl? when did she get up? Why did she get up to collect her things? What had the speaker thought about the brief encounter he had with the girl?
Ans: The girl was the co-passenger of the narrator in Ruskin’s Bond’s story “The Eyes Have It”.
When the train slowed down before entering the station at Saharanpur, the girl get up and collected her things.
The girl got up to collect her things because her destination was approaching.
Though the speaker got highly impressed on the very presence of the girl in the compartment but the girl is not found to be like him. At the time of getting down at Saharanpur she only uttered ‘good bye’. For that reason perhaps the narrator thought that she would forget their meeting.
6. “The man who entered the compartment broke into my reverie.” — Who is the speaker? What was the reverie? How did the man break the reverie of the speaker?
Ans: The narrator of Ruskin Bond’s story ‘The Eyes Have It’ is the speaker of this quoted line.
A reverie means day dream. After the departure of the girl, the narrator sat in front of the window and tried to guess what was going on outside. Here his reverie could be concerned with the narrator’s lingering over the brief encounter with the blind girl.
The man broke the reverie or day dream of the narrator by talking to him. The new passenger entered the compartment and told the narrator that he might prove to be disappointing as he was not so attractive a travelling companion as the girl.
7. “yes this is the best time, I said calling on my memories” — Who is the speaker and the person spoken to? Why does the speaker make this remark? why is the narrator calling on his memories? Describe the best time.
Ans: The narrator of Ruskin Bond’s story “The Eyes Have It” told this line to his girl companion of the train.
When the girl expressed her wist to go to Mussoorie and told the narrator that he was a lucky man to go there specially in the month of October, then in reply the narrator said that October is the best month to visit hills.
The narrator was calling on his memories because he saw the beauty of Mussoorie earlier when he had vision.
In the month of October the Mussoorie hills dress up with the beauty of wild dahlias. The sunlight is pleasant at that time. Above all, the roads remain free from the chaos of the tourists. One can enjoy hill’s beauty at that time.
8. “Few girls can resist flatter.” — Who made this comment? Why did the speaker think so? What was the reaction of the listener to his action?
Ans: The author-narrator of Ruskin Bond’s story “The Eyes Have It” made this comment.
The narrator only thought of this point that girls generally can not resist flattery. So to continue to talk to the girl he made the comment that she had an interesting face.
The girl laughed and the remark pleased her very much. She said that she was tired of people telling her that she had a pretty face. She also remarked that the narrator was a very gallant young man and wanted to know from him why he was so serious.
9. “She had beautiful eyes, but they were of no use her”. — Whose eyes are mentioned here? Why are the eyes useless to her? Bring out the irony of the situation.
Ans: The eyes of the girl companion of the narrator in Ruskin Bond’s story ‘The Eyes Have It’ are mentioned here.
The girl was completely blind so the eyes were useless to her.
Throughout his journey the narrator had been very careful to conceal the fact that he was blind. But at the end of the story, through the eyes of the new passenger the narrator discovered that the girl too was completely blind. The irony of the situation is that his endeavour to conceal his blindness was totally unnecessary.
10. “Then I made a mistake.” — Who made the mistake? what was his mistake? Was it really a mistake? What did the speaker do afterwards to cover up his mistake?
Ans: The narrator of Ruskin Bond’s story ‘The Eyes Have It’ made the mistake.
The mistake was that the narrator asked the girl what it was like outside.
The narrator was unaware of the girl’s blindness. So he thought he made a mistake. But actually it was not a mistake because the girl was blind and was unable to identify the narrator’s blindness.
The blind girl did not found anything strange in this remark and she suggested the narrator to look out of the window himself. At this the doubt of the narrator was removed and he got rid of the problem. So he stuck to his seat and pretended to study the landscape outside. Thus he tried to cover up his mistake.
11. “Oh, how lucky you are.” — Who said this? Who is lucky and why? What did the person spoken to say in reply?
Ans: The girl with whom the narrator of Ruskin Bond’s story “The Eyes Have It” met on the train said this.
The narrator considered lucky because he was going to Mussoorie in October and he will enjoy the beauty of the hills there.
The narrator agreed October was the best month to visit the hills. He recalled his memories and said at that time the hills are covered with wild dahlias and the warmth of the sun is enjoyable. The place remain free from tourists. It is very nice to sit by the log fire and have some brandy.
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