6. ON THE FACE OF IT BY SUSAN HILL

COMPLETE SOLUTION OF "ON THE FACE OF IT" 

Q1. Name the play and the author.

Ans:- The play is ‘On The Face Of It’ and the author is Susan Hill.

Q2. Who are the chief characters of the play?

Ans:- Mr Lamb and a young boy Derry are the chief character of the play.

Q3. Who is Mr Lamb in the Play?

Ans:- Mr Lamb is a handicapped fellow who has his own garden where he spends his all the daylong by sitting on the wooden bench.

Q4. Why does Mr Lamb leave his gate always open?

Ans:- Mr Lamb doesn’t mind leaving his gate always open because he likes to meet people who come in his garden. He likes to talk to them and learn different things from them. He farther says that everything that belongs to him also belongs to everybody else.

Q5. In what sense is the friendship between Mr Lamb and Derry fruitful?

Ans:- The friendship between Mr Lamb and Derry helped the latter get over his baseless fears. Derry was inspired by Mr Lamb’s positive attitude towards life. The old man’s positive thinking and similarity makes an erasable impression in the heart of Derry towards Mr Lamb. And also the activities of Derry made Mr Lamb very meticulous. So this way they both became close to each other.

Q6. What did Derry’s mother think of Mr Lamb?

Ans:- Derry’s mother is quite skeptical of Mr Lamb. She considers him to be angry man. She claims that she has heard many things about Mr Lamb and some have also warned her against him. That is why she doesn’t want Derry to meet Mr Lamb.

Q7. Who is Mr Lamb? How does Derry get into his garden?

Ans:- Mr Lamb is an old man who lives in a big house. He has no family. He lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion in the war. As Derry was walking past Mr Lamb’s garden, he felt it was isolated (keep alone). So, he got into his garden by climbing over the garden.

Q8. Will Derry get back to his old seclusion or will Mr Lamb’s brief association effect a change in the kind of life he will lead in the future?

Ans:- Suffering from one side from his face, Derry was a pessimist. But when he met Mr Lamb, he gradually began to hope the bright side of life. He felt that in the form of Mr Lamb, he had found a true friend whom he realized similar like himself. A brief introduction between Derry and Mr Lamb created unbreakable relation that respected both of them from their side of love. This weird major change of Derry amused him the most beyond his expectation. But as soon as Derry’s mother heard meeting with Mr Lamb to her

son Derry, she got worry and scolded Derry not to meet him again. But nothing changed despite of mother’s scolding because the reality of life had known by Derry having passed a little span of time. It led Derry towards future till his intention.