A Face In The Dark Summary
Summary in English
A Face In The Dark Summary begins with Mr Oliver, a teacher
whose parents were from both India and Britain, was returning to his school one late night on the
outskirts of the hill station Shimla. The school in which Mr Oliver was
teaching was following the British Education System. That day, when it was
already dark in the evening, Mr Oliver, decided to make a deviation in his path
and thought of taking a shortcut through the pine forest. The unusual and horrifying
sounds of the pine trees during rainy and windy weathers used to keep the
people away from it but Mr Oliver was a bold person and he decided to go
through it to save time. At the same time, he was also familiar with the place
and always carried a torch with him.
While returning through that pine forest, he saw a figure of a boy at a certain distance. He saw that it was
sitting on a rock all alone. He could not identify the boy as he was located at
a certain distance from Mr Oliver. Also, he was puzzled as well as tensed at
the same time as the boy was out of the premises of the school at such an
unusual time of the day. On approaching the boy, Mr Oliver found that the boy
was continuously weeping and kept his face down. Mr Oliver sensed that
something might be wrong. He tried to ask the boy, but he kept on weeping and
didn’t stop while hiding his face continuously. Mr Oliver kept on asking the
boy as he was worried for him.
Finally, the boy turned up his face and seeing that the
torch in the hands of Mr Oliver fell. He saw a face that had no eyes, ears, or
mouth. It was a complete ghostly figure. It only had the head with the school
cap on it.
Seeing this horrifying scene, Mr Oliver screamed out for
help in the dark. In the need of help, he ran towards the school where he
noticed a lantern hanging. The lantern he noticed was in the middle of the
path. He also saw a watchman standing near the entry gate of the school. Mr
Oliver ran up to him and explained to him what he saw in the dark. He said that
he witnessed a horrifying scene where he saw a boy who had no face. In a reply,
the watchman turned towards the teacher and said: “ Do you mean it was like
this?” To his surprise, Mr Oliver saw that the watchman too had no face, not
even eyebrows. This made him even more terrified and the winds blowing put out
the lamp.
Conclusion of A Face In The Dark
We can say from the summary above that suspense still
exists because the readers are yet to figure out what happened with Mr Oliver
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