14.The Eyes Are Not Here(20)

1. Who is the author of the short story "The Eyes Are Not Here"?
Ans:- Ruskin Bond is the author of "The Eyes are not here".

2. Who is Ruskin Bond? 
Ans:- Ruskin Bond is the author of 'The Eyes are not here'. He was born in 1934 and is a prominent Indian writer of fiction in English. He spent most of his childhood in Shimla and Dehradun. These places form the setting for many of his short stories.  He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 and Padmashri in 1999.

3. Why did the narrator think that the couple who saw the girl off were his parents? 
Ans:- The couple seemed to be very anxious about the girl's comfort.  They fussed over her and gave her detailed instructions about how to take care of herself and her belongings.

4. Why Was the narrator unable to tell what the girl looked like? 
Ans:- The narrator was totally blind. His eyes were sensitive only to light and darkness. 

5. How did he know that the girl wore slippers? 
Ans:- The slapping sound of the slippers as they hit her heels made him know that the girl wore them. 

6. What did the narrator like about the girl? 
Ans:- The narrator liked the sound of the voice and sound of the slippers of the girl. 

7. Why according to the narrator was the girl startled when he spoke to her? 
Ans:- The girl was startled because the girl may not have seen the narrator sitting in the dark corner. 

8. Why did the girl not see the narrator? 
Ans:- The girl did not see the narrator because she was blind.

9. Why do people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them? 
Ans:- People with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them because they have too much to observe through their all the senses.

10. How are blind people different in the way they observe things? 
Ans:- Blind people observe only the essential things right in front of them. The available other four senses become enough to help them.

11. How did the blind narrator plan to keep his blindness from the girl? 
Ans:- The blind narrator decided not to get up from his seat to keep his blindness from the girl. 

12. Who would be meeting the girl at her residence? 
Ans:- The aunt of the girl would be meeting her at her residence. 

13. Why did the narrator say that he would not talk too much to the girl?
Ans:- When the girl revealed that her aunt would be meeting her, the narrator humorously remarked that he would not be too friendly and talk too much because aunts are frighteningly protective people.

14. Why did the narrator feel that he would never be able to discover something about the girl's looks?
Ans:- The narrator was blind. He did not want to ask any question that would reveal his blindness. Besides, the girl was going away. These are the reasons that the narrator feels that he would never be able to discover something about the girl's looks.

15. How could the narrator being blind describe Mussoorie?
Ans:- The narrator was probably not born blind. So he must have seen Mussoorie when he had eyesight. So the narrator could describe Mussoorie.

16. With what intention did the narrator remark that the girl had an interesting face?
Ans:- The narrator wanted to please her. He also pretended to be normal-sighted. So, he remarked that the girl had an interesting face.

17. How did the story end?
Ans:- The narrator had thought he was playing a game and trying to fool a normal-sighted person. He came to know that he was actually trying to fool a person blind like him. He also realized that even she had played a similar game with him hiding her blindness. The end of the story reveals that both knew about each other's blindness when they were interacting with each other.

18. What was the vase metaphor all about in the story?
Ans:- The vase of roses was compared to a person. It's shattering was referred to a person's going away. And 'the scent of the roses' in the vase referred to the memories.

19. What kind of game does the speaker play with his fellow?
Ans:- The speaker plays the game through which he tries to fool the other person into thinking that he normal-sighted.

20. What notion or impressions do we understand about the narrator?
Ans:- The impressions that we get about the narrator is that he hated his blindness. He also feels that normal-sighted people are overconfident about their powers of observation.

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