2. About the author
• Ruskin Bond was born in kasauli,Himachal
pradesh,on 19thmay,1934,and grew up in
shimla,jamnagar,Deharadun and Mussoorie.
• As a young man,he spent four years in the
channel island and London.
• He now lives in Landour,Mussoorie,with his
adopted family.
• It was partly based on his experiences at Dehra,in
his small rented room on the roof, and his friend.
3. • The “Room On the Roof” brought him the
John Liewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957.
4. Character in Story
The Narrator:- He is the man character and
the traveller who meets a girl in the train.
The girl:- She is a passenger who travels with
the narrator for a while.
The Fellow Passenger who makes the
narrator realize that the girl was blind.
5. About The Story
• The eyes have it is a marvellous short story of
Ruskin Bond who has used first person
narrative technique in the story.Here
everthing is narrated by the person who
himself is blind.
• His eyes are sensitive only to light and
darkness.While going to Deharadun by train
the comes across a girl.He starts conversation
and gradually becomes interested in her.
6. • He tactfully hides his blindness from the girl to
impress her.But the conversation does not last
long.The girl bids him good-bye as the train
arrives at her destination.
• After her departure, a new male passenger
comes into the compartment.From that man
the narrator learns that the girl was
completely blind.The revelation shocks the
narrator.
