My first Magazine A Face in the Dark, Ruskin Bond | Page 6

Question (i): Where did Mr Oliver find the boy? What did he notice
about the boy?
Answer (i): Mr. Oliver was walking through the pine forest late in a
stormy night when he happened to spot a boy sitting on a rock.
He noticed that the boy was crying with his head hung down and his
face held in his hands.
Question (ii): Why do you think the boy was called a miscreant? In
what condition was he found by Oliver?
Answer (ii): Boys were not supposed to be out of school premises after
dark. The boy had broken the rule and was spotted in the forest late in
the night. This is the reason the boy was called a miscreant by the
author.
Oliver found the boy sitting on a rock and crying silently with his head
hung down and his face held in his hands.
Question (iii): How did Mr Oliver express his concern for the boy? How
did the boy react to it?
Answer (iii): Since the boy had broken the rule by staying out after dark,
Mr Oliver got angry. But when he noticed that the boy was continuously
crying he got concerned and asked him what he was doing there and
why he was crying.