English Flip Teaching

A face In the DARK

- RUSKIN
BOND
Team members
Navya Jain (Group Leader)
Yagyanshi Mishra
Ojasvi Chaudhary
Naitik dixit
Shashwat Mishra
Saharsh Mishra
 table of contents

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Summary Title Character Themes
About the Sketch Setting
Author Yagyanshi Navya Ojasvi
Saharsh
Naitik
Shashwat
 About The Author
01 Shashwat
 summary
02 Yagyanshi
 Mr. Oliver Mr. Oliver Mr. Oliver
was asked him
0 returning to 0 to look up.
0
ran from
there and
his home late
1 one night. 3 5
bumped
into a
watchman.

On this way, 0 The boy 0

he found a The
0
boy sitting 2 looked up,
his face had 4
watchman
alone on a
rock and no eyes, ears,
was
faceless
6
weeping with nose or like the
his face in his mouth. boy.
hands.
 Title
03 Navya
The title A Face in the Dark is suitable as it
describes a strange experience of Mr Oliver, the
protagonist of the story.

Oliver, on his way back at night, meets a boy in

an isolated place sitting on a rock.

A close look at the boy horrifies him as he

has no face-no eyes, ears, nose or mouth.
As he runs horrified by the strange experience,
he meets the watchman who is also without a
face.

As he runs horrified by the strange

experience, he meets the watchman who is
also without a face.

Thus, the boy and the watchman, who

appeared to be having a face in the dark,
did not have a face when seen in light.
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 CHARACTER
SKETCH
04 NAIT
IK
 MR. OLIVER
Mr. Oliver is an Anglo-Indian
We can say that he is not a nervous and
teacher who has been teaching in an
imaginative person. Rather, he is a daring
English Public School located three
and adventurous person who is not scared
miles away from Shimla, for several
to pass through the pine forest in the dark
years.
of the night while returning from Shimla

He is a man of a strong personality and

easily shoes away from the gossips of It is obvious that the forest was
ghosts and devils. As a man of a strong haunted in the dark as not many
personality, he staunchly dwells on people dare to pass by the forest
individualism. at night.

His Visiting the Simla Bazaar

Simla Bazaar is three miles
away from the public school.
 The Boy
Mr. Oliver was walking down the
narrow path through the pine forest
when he stumbled upon a boy who
was sitting alone in the dark on a
rock.
The boy gave no reply to the couple of
questions which Oliver threw at the boy
regarding what he was doing there or what
was wrong with him. But when Mr. Oliver
asked the boy to look up, he complied and in
the low light of his torch Oliver say that the
boy had no eyes, no ears, no nose and no
mouth. it was a ’round smooth head — with
Mr. Oliver thought that the boy was
a student of his school and was
somewhat angry with him as boys
were not supposed to go out after
dark.
A little letter Oliver sensed that
something was wrong as the boy
was crying with his head hung down
and his face covered with his hands.
It was rather a silent sobbing and his
body shook convulsively.
 ThEMES
05 OJASVI
 THE STORY
ENDS WITH A
A BOY’S
SENSE OF
ON THAT SCHOOL CAP
AMBIGUITY,M
PARTICULAR MIGHT BE
The story has AKING THE
NIGHT, IT WAS LYING ON A
hues of READERS
DARK AND ROCK, WHICH
supernATURAL PONDER
STORMY AND OLIVER, IN THE
elements Mr. OVER THE
BECAUSE OF FLICKERING
.

Oliver, the QUESTION

BEING A LIGHT OF HIS
PROTAGONIST WHETHER IT
BACHELOR AND TORCH,
HAS BEEN WERE THE
LONELY, IT LED IMAGINED TO
DESCRIBED AS GHOSTS,WHI
HIM TO BE A FACELESS
A MAN WHO IS CH OLIVER
IMAGINE BOY.AGAIN IT
NOT EASILY ENCOUNTERE
SOMETHING WAS HIS FEAR
GIVEN TO D OR
SUPERNATURAL WHICH MADE
NERVOUSNESS WHETHER IT
LIKE A BOY HIM IMAGINE
 “ The oldest and strongest
emotion of mankind is fear,
and the oldest and strongest kind
of fear is fear of the unknown ”
 Setting
06 SAHAR
SH

Mr Oliver, a bachelor
often visited the Simla
Bazaar in the evening and
The setting of
then took a shortcut
the story is a
through the forest to, the
deep and dark school. But on a particular
pine forest on
night as he returned
the outskirts of
through the forest he saw
the north Indian a boy sitting on a rock and
hill- station, crying.
Shimla. .
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01
When he asked the boy
to raise his face , he saw
in the flickering light of
his torch a faceless
round head with a cap
perched over it. In fear The setting of
he ran towards the
the story thus
school only to encounter
is mysterious,
another faceless entity
in the form of the eerie and
watchman. supernatural.
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What do you think might have happened to mr.
oliver after the air blew the lamp ?
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