Short Questions & Answers of the Poem "The Eyes Have It"

                              ( prose)

                 Chapter:- 01

           THE EYES HAVE IT

           

* Name of the Author: Ruskin Bond

* The Original Title of This Prose: "The Eyes Are not Here" & "The Girl on the Train"

*This Story was Originally published in "Contemporary Indian English Stories"

A. Short type of questions.

Q.1) What is the original title of the short story "The Eyes Have It"?

Ans:- The original title of the short story "The Eyes Have It" is "The Eyes Are Not Here".

Q.2) What is the narrator's destination?

Ans:- The narrator's destination was Dehra and then to Mussoorie.

Q.3):- What was the condition of eyes of the narrator?

Ans:- The narrator was completely blind and his eyes were sensitive only to light and darkness.

Q.4) Who had received the girl and where?

Ans:- The aunt of the girl had received her at Saharanpur station.

Q.5) Why was the girl startled at voice of the narrator?

Ans:- The girl was startled, because she was completely blind and could not feel the narrator's presence.

Q.6) When did the hills of Mussoorie look beautiful after the girl?

Ans:- After the girl, the hills of Mussoorie looked beautiful in October.

Q.7) How did the girl's voice appear to the narrator?

Ans:- The girl's voice appeared to the narrator as the sparkle of the mountain stream.

Q.8) What made the narrator feel that the couple who had come to see the girl off were her parents?

Ans:- The narrator felt so, because the couple who had come to see the girl off were very much anxious about her well being or comfort.

Q.9) what instructions did the woman give to the girl before the train's departure?

Ans:- The woman gave the girl instructions as to where to keep her things, when not to lean out of window and how to avoid talking to unknown persons.

Q.10) What is the narrator's opinion on the people with good eyesight?

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin Bond remarks that the people with good eyesight often fail to see what is right in front of them, as they have too much to take in.

Q.11) What is the opinion of the narrator about the blind people?

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin Bond remarks that the people without good eyesight or see very little, have to take in only the essentials, whatever registers most tellingly on their remaining senses.

Q.12) What does the narrator think about the aunts?

Ans:- According to the narrator Ruskin Bond, aunts are usually formidable creatures.

Q.13) How October is the best time to visit the hills of Mussoorie?

Ans:- According to the narrator the hills of Mussoorie present a lovely look in October, because the hills are covered with wild dahlias, the sun is delicious and at night one can sit in front of log fire and drink a little brandy. Most of tourists have gone and the roads are quiet and almost deserted.

Q.14) What safe remark did the narrator make?

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin Bond remarked that the girl had interesting face.

Q.15) What was the girl's reaction to the safe remark of the  narrator?

Ans:- The girl laugh pleasantly and told the narrator that she had tired of people telling her that she had a pretty face.

Q.16) What did the narrator feel about his laughter?

Ans:- Thinking of his laughter, the narrator felt trouble and lonely.

B. Very short type of lining questions.

01. "Then I made a mistake."

Q:- Which mistake did the narrator make?

Ans:- The Narrator made a mistake by asking the girl what it was like outside of the window.

02. "Her next question removed my doubts."

Q.(a):- What was the next question?

Ans:- The girl's next question was why the narrator did not look outside of the window.

Q.(b):-What was the narrator's doubt?

Ans:- The narrator's doubt was perhaps the girl had realized his blindness.

03. "She was silent."

Q:- Why was the girl silent?

Ans:- The girl was silent for the fear of being revealed about her blindness.

04. "Have you noticed I ventured."

Q:- What did speaker noticed?

Ans:- The speaker Ruskin bond noticed that the trees seemed to be moving while they seemed to be standing still.

05. "You have an interesting face."

Q.(a):- How and why did the narrator call it a safe remark?

Ans:- The narrator called the above statement as a safe remark, because he thought that she could not ask further such question that could reveal his blindness.

Q.(b):- How did the listener react?

Ans:- The girl laugh pleasantly and she did not resist his flattery.

06. "The perfume from her hair was tantalizing."

Q:- What did the narrator want to do and why?

Ans:- The narrator wanted to rise his hand and touch the girl's hair to know about the style of her hair.

07. "A man getting into the train compartment stammered an apology."

 

Q:- Why did the man stammered and apology?

And:- The man stammered an apology to make the way for getting into the train compartment.

08. "The man who had entered the compartment broke into my reverie."

Q:- Which reverie is mentioned here?

Ans:- Here reverie refers to the imagination regarding what was happing outside the train compartment.

09. "She was completely blind, didn't you notice?"

Q:- Why did the speaker ask the above question?

Ans:- The third passenger asked the above  question, because he did not understand that the narrator was blind.

C. Essay type of questions.

01.Q:- Is the narrator somewhat cautions about not revealing too much about himself? support your point with instance from the text.

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin Bond made every attempt to hide his blindness from the girl during talking with her. He was very cautions to hide his blindness. He described the natural beauties of the hills of the Mussoorie specially in October. He gave a detail description of the landscape of the Mussoorie, so smartly and convincingly that the girl thought that he could see with his eyes. He made a mistake by asking the girl what it was like outside. The the girl again asked him to lookout of the window. To hide his blindness, he made a pretense of studying the landscape outside of the window and said that trees seemed to be moving while they seemed to be standing still.

02.Q:- Does the author anticipate the ironical twist in the end during the course of the narrative? If yes, give examples from the text to support your argument.

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin Bond's short story is the interesting story of two blind person during a train journey, one of the passengers is narrator, while other one is a girl. Non of them has any knowledge of the others blindness. Each of them believes that his or her co-passenger has a clear eyesight. Each of them tries to hide his or her blindness from others. But the hard irony of the situation comes at the end of the story after the girl gets down at Saharanpur. A man, new passenger, enters into the same compartment and he informs the narrator that the girl was completely blind. The irony of the situation is a person hard acquaintance(known) with what is real and so long has remained totally unknown to him.

                At the first she informs the narrator by saying "I didn't know anyone else was here", then the narrator replied her by saying, "I didn't see you either, but I heard you come in".

               This implies to their blindness. This  anticipation are only faint and not clearly suggest any positive conclusion.

03.Q:- Would you agree that this story is a comment on seeing? support your point with the instance from the text.

Ans:- Ruskin Bond's short story "The Eyes Have It" is a great comment on seeing. When the narrator remarks that people with good eyesight often fail to see what is right in front of them, because they have too much to take in. In the case of the third passenger, though the man has a good eyesight, he fails to notice the girl's beautiful hair and the narrator's blindness.

             The narrator's other comment on seeing is the people, who cannot see have to take in only the essentials, what ever registers most tellingly on their remaining senses.

              In the story we find the narrator sensitive only to light and darkness, smell and sound. Though he was completely blind, but his other sense organs extremely active, while the third passenger with his good eyesight noticed only her useless eyes but not her hair.

D. Essay type of lining questions.

01. "Then I made a mistake."

Q.(a):- What mistake is referred to here?

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin bond behaved with the girl like a man with a good eyesight, but he asked the girl what it was like outside of the window. He thought a man with a good eyesight could never ask such a foolish question. He thought that the girl would now discover his blindness so the narrator thought that it was a mistake to ask such a question.

Q.(b):- Was there really any mistake?

Ans;- The girl being blind did not notice the mistake and she remained silent about her blindness. Probably she was also playing the same game, so there was no any mistake.

Q.(c):- How did the speaker get-rid off his doubt?

Ans:- When, the girl ask the narrator why he did not look out of the window, he got-rid off his doubt.

02. "few girls can resist flattery or, you have an interesting face."

Q.(a):- What does the speaker want to suggest the above line?               or,

           What does the narrator mean to say in the above line?

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin Bond was completely blind, but he considered his co-passenger as a sighted one and talk to the girl continuously to hide his blindness, while trying to be more intimate(close) relationship with the girl, the narrator spoke boldly like a sighted person. He remarked that she had an interesting face, because he thought that the most girls like flattery and few girls may protest his flattery.

Q.(b):- What was the effect of the narrator on the girl?

Ans:- After listening the narrator's flattery the girl laugh pleasantly and she did not show her over joys, but she disheartened the narrator by saying that she was tired of people's admiration for her pretty face then the narrator said that an interesting face could also be pretty.

03. "But the thought of the laughter only made me feel trouble and lonely."

Q:- What does the speaker mean to say in the above line?

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin Bond very much conscious to hide his blindness. He wanted to talk with the girl too much, but when the girl asked him about seriousness. He tried to laugh for the girl to make her happy. But the thought of the laughter only made him feel trouble and lonely.

04. "Yes I was prepared to sit there for almost any length of time."

Q:- Why did the narrator think so?

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin Bond was travelling alone in a train compartment. At Rohana a young girl entered into the train compartment. He started conversation with the girl by asking her about the destination of the girl. The behavior of the girl impressed the narrator. Being a blind man he has no chance to find out about her looks, but the girl's presence made him feel less lonely. So he liked to talk with her and wanted to listen to her talking, because her voice and laughter were giving him bondless joy and he did not want to loss the charming moment, so he was prepared to sit in the train compartment for almost any length of time with the girl.

05. "The perfume from her hair was tantalizing."

Q.(a):- What did the narrator guess about the girl's hair style?

Ans:- The narrator guess about the girl's hair style that either she wore her hair in bun or it was plaited perhaps her hair was hanging loose over her shoulders or it was cut very short. He was tantalizing with the perfume from her hair.

Q.(b):- Did the narrator tried to know about the girl's hair and how?

Ans:- The narrator has tantalized with the perfume from her hair so much that he wanted to rise his hand and touch her hair to know about the style of her hair, but she went away. After the girl's departure, the narrator asked the new passenger if she kept her hair long or short, then the new passenger replied him that he had not noticed her hair except her beautiful eyes.

06. "Can you tell me-did she keep her hair long or short."

Q.(a):- Who asked the above question and to whom?

Ans:- The narrator Ruskin Bond asked the above question to the third passenger, who entered into the train compartment at Saharanpur station just after the departure of the girl.

Q.(b):- What did the third passenger inform the narrator?                or,  

           What was revealed to narrator finally?

Ans:- The narrator has boundless desire to know the style of her perfume of hair. He wanted to know from the new passenger if he had noticed the nature of her hair. Then the man replied that he had only noticed her beautiful eyes, but not her hair. Unfortunately her eyes were useless to her, because she was completely blind. Hearing this the narrator

 was deeply shocked and depressed.

07. "It could be a fascinating game, guessing what went out there."

Q.(a):- What was fascinating game?

Ans:- The fascinating game was to guess, what went on outside of the window.

Q.(b):- How could the fascinating game help the narrator?               or,

           How did the guessing game help narrator to keep himself away from hard reality?

Ans:- When the girl got off at Saharanpur station leaving him alone, he felt deeply upset for her departure. To avoid his sadness he engaged himself in a guessing game, which also helped him to escape from hard reality and ruminate over his sweet experience.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 * 3D CASSES *

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