Chapter - 1
The Eyes Have It
-Ruskin Bond
Short Questions and Answers (SAQ)
1. Who had the train compartment up to Rohana?
Answer: The narrator of the story, The Eyes Have It, had the train compartment to himself up to Rohana.
2. Who entered the compartment at Rohana?
Answer: A blind girl entered the compartment at Rohana.
3. How did the traveler come to know anything about his fellow traveler in the train?
Answer: The traveller lernt about his fellow traveller from the sounds only.
4. Who saw the girl off at Rohana
Answer: Probably the girl’s parents saw off at Rohana.
5. What doubt lurked in the narrator’s mind about the girl?
Answer: The narrator doubted if he would be able to know how the girl looked.
6. How did the girl react to the narrator’s question about her destination?
Answer: The girl was startled as if she was unaware of the narrator’s presence before saying that she would get off at Saharanpur.
7. What is the problem with the people with good eyesight?
Answer: The people with good sight often fail to see what is right in front of them.
8. What is problem with the people without eyesight?
Answer: The people without eyesight can register only those things which significantly appeal to their senses other than the vision.
9. What did the narrator try to do when the girl entered the compartment?
Answer: The narrator then tried to hide his blindness from his co-traveler.
10. What, According to the narrator would be the best way to prevent her from discovering that he was blind?
Answer: According to the narrator, the best way to do it was to stick to his seat all the time.
11. “The girl said, I am getting off at Saharanpur. My aunt is meeting me there.” –Why would the aunt meet her there?
Answer: The girl was going to Saharanpur and her aunt would be there to receive her.
12. “Then I had better not get too familiar.” –Why did not narrator want to be too familiar with the girl?
Answer: The narrator was scared about aunts because they are supposed to be dangerous creatures and so, he did not want to be familiar with the girl whom her aunt would receive at Saharanpur.
13. “Oh, how lucky you are,” said the girl. Why did the girl consider the narrator lucky?
Answer: The girl consider the narrator to be a lucky person because she thought, unlike her, the narrator could enjoy the natural beauty of Mussoorie with his own eyes.
14. “Yes, October is the best time.” –Why is October the best time to travel to Mussoorie?
Answer: In October, Mussoorie is quiet and deserted due to absence of tourists and it has pleasant warm mornings, beautiful dahlias and enjoyable nights.
15. “What is it like outside?” I asked. “She seemed to find nothing strange in the question.” –Why did not she find anything strange in the question?
Answer: The girl herself was blind and so she found nothing strange in such a quary.
16. “I moved easily along the berth and felt for the window ledge.” –Why did the narrator move to the window ledge?
Answer: The narrator tried to pretend that he was looking at the landscape outside by moving to the window ledge.
17. “Have you noticed, that the trees seem to be moving while we seem to be standing”, I ventured.” –Why did the narrator ask this question?
Answer: By uttering this normal phenomenon, the narrator tried his best to conceal his blindness.
18.”That always happens”, she said. –Why did the girl say this?
Answer: In spite of her blindness the girl was well aware of the fact that from the train in motion, the trees outside seemed to be moving but the train appeared to be standing still.
19. “You have an interesting face,” I remarked. –why did the narrator make this remark?
Answer: The narrator made this remark to please the girl by way of flattery.
20. “I was becoming quite daring, but it was a safe remark.” –Why did the narrator consider it a safe remark?
Answer: From his experience the narrator knew that flattery pleased most of the girls and so, it was a safe remark for hiding his blindness.
21. “It is nice to be told I have an interesting face.” Why did the girl consider the remark nice?
Answer: The girl was tired of hearing that she had a pretty face but the narrator described her beauty differently.
22. “You are a gallant young man,” she said. –why did the young girl say this?
Answer: As the narrator appreciated the girl’s beauty in different way, she considered him to be a chivalrous person.
23. “….but why are you so serious?” said the girl. –Why did the girl consider the narrator to be serious?
Answer: The author’s over-consciousness towards his own blindness refrained him from conversing with the girl in a lighter vein.
24. “Yet I was prepared to sit for almost any length of time.” –What does this statement reveal about the feeling of the narrator?
Answer: The author was enchanted by the girl’s company, especially by her voice.
25. “I thought, the, I would laugh for her.” –Why did the narrator think of laughing for her?
Answer: The girl took the narrator as a very serious person and to contradict this observation the narrator thought to come out of his shell and laugh for her.
26. “I wanted to raise my hand and touch her hair, but she moved away.” –Why did the girl move away?
Answer: The girl moved away because she was to alight from the train at Saharanpur.
27. “I don’t remember, he said” sounding puzzled.” –Why was the man puzzled?
Answer: The man was puzzled because the narrator asked him about the girl’s hair without making any reference to her blindness.
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