CBSE Class 12 English Vistas On The Face Of It Susan Hill Assignment

CBSE Class 12 English Vistas On The Face Of It Susan Hill Assignment. Students are advised to refer to the attached assignments and practice them regularly. This will help them to identify their weak areas and will help them to score better in examination. Parents should download and give the assignments to their children for practice.

The Story-line: Derry was a teenager, highly pessimistic and withdrawn from the mainstream society. - He developed this attitude after one side of his face was disfigured by acid. He avoided company of others and remained lonely lest he be noticed by other people. - He believed that no one loved him and his mother loved him because she was supposed to. - Well, Derry cannot be completely blamed for his pessimistic and aggressive attitude towards the world around him. - Once he heard two women commenting about his monstrous appearance. They said only a mother could love a face like his. - On another day Derry heard his parents conversing that he would not survive after their death because he was deformed. - The shock he received from these words was big. - On another occasion Derry heard his relatives saying that his being put in the hospital where he had been treated after the accident was good for him. In their opinion a deformed boy like Derry could accommodate himself with other deformed boys and girls. - Derry had his ears always open for such comments and used to respond to them in his silent way. - He concluded that the world altogether didn’t need a boy like him. - One day Derry accidently met a man called Mr. Lamb. - Mr. Lamb was an old man with a lame leg. After he became lame, Mr. Lamb began to develop a positive attitude with his deformity. - He worked hard to defeat this impairment and learnt to walk and climb ladders. - He was happy to be alive and ignored his lameness. - He made everyone his friend and had a house with no curtains and open doors. He welcomed anyone who came to him. - While Mr. Lamb took his impairment as a challenge and tried to overcome it, Derry believed that he was unwanted and lost. - His pain was physical and mental. Being a child he was not as strong as Mr. Lamb about suffering. - He couldn’t take the sneering and sympathizing world as taken by Mr. Lamb. - Mr. Lamb was able to sit smart and unaffected as long as he wore trousers and sat but Derry had no way to hide his face. - After meeting Mr. Lamb Derry realized how foolish he had been to believe his parents. - For him Lamb was a man who opened the doors of his closed world in an hour’s time the same of which were shut on him by his parents and therefore believed that his company with Lamb would make him a perfect person. - At the end Derry goes back to his house where his mother cross questioned him. She had instructed him not to step out of the house. - Derry tried to convince his mother that Mr. Lamb was an extremely good man but she was not ready to listen. - Ignoring his mother’s thoughtless restrictions, Derry left his home and ran to Mr. Lamb’s garden. - On reaching, Derry found a motionless Mr. Lamb fallen from the ladder. - He had fallen while pulling the crab apples down from the tree.

MCQs 

Question. Why does Mr Lamb invite Derry to give him a hand?
(a) To make jelly
(b) To pick apples
(c) Since September is the best time of the year
(d) Since Mr Lamb is lame

Answer: B

Question. Why is Derry drawn towards Mr Lamb?
(a) Lamb‘s physical disability
(b) Lamb‘s pessimistic approach
(c) Lamb‘s positive attitude
(d) Lamb‘s sympathy

Answer: C

Question. Why did Derry laugh after listening to the story of a man who locked himself in a room?
(a) Others laughed at him
(b) slipped over a banana peel
(c) bus ran over him
(d) picture fell on his head

Answer: D

Question. Assertion (A) Mr Lamb grows weeds in one part of his garden.
Reason (R) There is nothing God made that doesn‘t interest Mr Lamb.
(a) A is true but R is false
(b) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation for A
(c) A is false but R is true
(d) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation for A

Answer: D

Question. Classify (1) to (4) as Fact (F) or Opinion (O), based on your reading of On The Face Of It.
(1) Mr Lamb lives in a house without curtains
(2) Beast should never change into a handsome prince.
(3) One side of Lamb‘s face got burned
(4) It‟s bound to make you feel bad things....and say them.
(a) F – 1 & 3 ; O - 2 & 4
(b) F - 1, 2, 3; O - 4
(c) F - 2; O - 1, 3 & 4
(d) F- 3 & 4; O - 1 & 2

Answer: A

Question. Why doesn‘t Mr Lamb use curtains at the windows?
(a) To hear rain on the roof
(b) To not to shut things in and shut things out
(c) To not to let boys steal apple
(d) All of these.

Answer: B

Question. How can Mr Lamb hide his handicap?
(a) By locking himself up
(b) By gaining confidence
(c) By wearing trousers
(d) By not talking to people

Answer: C

Extract Based Questions:

1. Read the given extract to attempt the questions that follow.
Everyone is. It doesn‟t matter who they are, or what they say, or how they look. How they pretend. I know. I can see.

Question. What do others think when they see his face?
(a) That‘s a terrible thing
(b) That‘s the ugliest thing
(c) They feel sorry for the boy
(d) All of these

Answer: D

Question. Who does 'I‘ refer to?
(a) Lamb
(b) Susan Hill
(c) Derry
(d) Derry’s mother

Answer: C

Question. Why does Derry say that everyone is afraid of him?
(a) He is short tempered
(b) He is reserved
(c) He hates others
(d) His face is ugly because of the scar

Answer: D

Question. What is it that he can see?
(a) What others think
(b) What others read
(c) What others see
(d) What others feel

Answer: A

II. Read the given extract to attempt the questions that follow.
‘’Everyone is. It doesn’t matter who they are, or what they say, or how they look. How they pretend. I know. I can see.’’

Question. Why should they pretend?
Answer: To hide their shock

Question. Who is 'I‘?
Answer: Derry/ Derek/ boy with half burnt face.

Question. What do they pretend?
Answer: Pretend that they are not afraid.

Question. Who are they?
Answer: People around him/ people who see/meet him.

III. "And no one’ll kiss me, ever. Only my mother, and she kisses me on the other side of my face, and I don’t like my mother to kiss me, she does it because she has to. Why should I
like that? I don’t care if nobody ever kisses me.”

Question. Why is he not happy when his mother kisses him?
Answer: Derry feels that his mother kisses him because she is bound to show her love/console him and not because she is ready to accept him with a half-burnt face/ Mother
does so out of helplessness, forced to make her son at ease.

Question. Identify the work and the author.
Answer: On The Face Of It by Susan Hill.

Question. Who is the speaker?
Answer: Derry/Derek

Question. Why does his mother kiss on the other side of his face?
Answer: To avoid the acid burnt side
 

Important Questions NCERT Class 12 English Vistas "On the Face of It"
 

Short Answer Type Questions:

Question. Why does Derry ask Mr Lamb to put on trousers?
Answer: To hide his tin leg. To escape.

Question. I want the world....I want it....I want it... What does Derry do to not to lose the world?
Answer: became confident, wants to face the world having a whole face. By going to Mr Lamb‘s garden.

Question. Why does Derry say that people are afraid of him?
Answer: Lack of confidence, half burned face, people either stare/pretend.

Question. Mr Lamb is leading a lonely life despite his attempts to overcome his loneliness. How do we know about his loneliness?
Answer: Lonely for he has no friends. Does not expect even Derry‘s return.

Question. Mr Lamb has allowed weeds to grow in his garden. Why?
Answer: Appreciates life. Perspective/attitude matters. Not prejudiced.

Question. It‟s bound to make you feel bad things....and say them. I don‟t blame you. When and why does the mother say so?
Answer: Derry insists on visiting Mr Lamb, half burned face, mother feels that to be the reason.

Question. Why does Derry not like being near people?
Answer: Half burned face, people staring at him, talking about his appearance, avoids people to escape.

Question. How did the man who locked himself up meet his end?
Answer: Man so scared, wanted to protect his life but died for a picture fell on his head.

Question. Why does Derry weep after he reaches the garden?‘
Answer: Reached garden to be with Mr Lamb. To prove to the old man that he can do it.
But Mr Lamb is no more.

Long Answer Type Questions:

Question. If you were to give a different ending to the story, “On The Face of It” how would you end it?
Answer: The play is quite sad and open ended. According to me, the play should have ended on a positive note, giving the reader a sense of hope. I feel, even if Mr. Lamb dies in the end, Derry would show some positive changes in his character. He would not remain his old withdrawn and defiant self. Instead, he would become as cheerful, open and friendly as Mr. Lamb.

Question. Why did Derry insist that he would go back to Mr. Lamb?
Answer: Derry insisted that he would go back to Mr. Lamb because it was for the first time that Derry felt comfortable and happy in someone’s presence. That someone was Mr. Lamb. While Derry was jovial with Mr. Lamb, Derry completely forgot about his burnt face. He felt that he too could live an independent life for he had all his faculty intact. Therefore, even though his mother forbade him from meeting Mr. Lamb, Derry insisted on going; he did not want to lose his new found companion.

Question. What change took place in Derry when he met Mr. Lamb?
Answer: Derry a young boy, angry withdrawn and defiant. One side of his face was burnt because of which he lacked self-confidence. He was lonely because he had no friends. People either feared him, found him disgusting to look at, treated him with pity or made fun of him. Derry had alienated himself from the society completely. One day, Derry sneaked into Mr. Lamb’s garden and it became a turning point in his life.

One of Mr. Lamb’s leg was made out of tin. Due to his physical impairment, he could not move around much. As a result, Mr. Lamb too was isolated from the rest; children called him lamey- Lamb. However, it did not affect him. Instead, he always kept the gates of his garden open.

Seeing Derry suffer so much at such a young age Mr. Lamb struck up a conversation with him, spending time with Mr. Lamb made Derry look at the world and love and admire everything he saw and heard. Mr. Lamb encouraged Derry to make friends and not be bothered by their comments. He told the boy not to hate people.

Mr. Lamb’s life and attitude inspired Derry quite a lot. In spite of his handicap, Mr. Lamb lived an independent and happy life seeing his positive approach to life, Derry decides to get rid of the habit of self-pity and face the world boldly with his newly gained self-confidence.

Question. How did Mr. Lamb’s meeting with Derry become a turning point in Derry’s life?
Answer: Derry is a withdrawn and defiant boy. He does not like to be around people because they look at his face and pass uncharitable remarks. Once, one side of his face got burnt by acid, which left a scar on his face. This created a complex in his mind. He thinks that people are afraid of him. Mr. Lamb is a physically challenged man, one of whose leg is made of tin.

Mr. Lamb is a complete contrast to Derry when it comes to his attitude and outlook towards life. He is an optimist who does not allow trivial teasing and name calling do not bother him. In fact, he likes having company. Mr. Lamb is not repulsed by Derry’s scarred face. Neither he is angry nor put off by the boy’s rudeness. Instead, Mr. Lamb understands Derry’s anguish and tries to make him realise that being handicapped is not a drawback. His meeting with Mr. Lamb becomes a turning point in Derry’s life because Derry is ready to overcome his obstacles and face the world. He finds courage and strength to get what he wants.

Question. In what sense is the friendship between Mr. Lamb and Derry fruitful?
Answer: Mr. Lamb helped Derry overcome his sense of inferiority. He advised him not to pay too much attention to what others thought about him; to celebrate life and its wonders. Mr. Lamb brought about a positive change in Derry’s attitude.

Question. Both Derry and Lamb are physically impaired and lonely. It is the responsibilityof society to understand and support people with infirmities so that they do not suffer from a sense of alienation. As a responsible citizen, write in about 100 words what you would do to bring about a change in the lives of such people.
Answer: In the story, both Derry and Lamb are physically impaired and lonely. To bring about a change in the lives of such people, as a responsible citizen, I shall treat them with respect and honour and not punish them with heartless ridicule and pity. People like Derry and Mr. Lamb expect empathy, rather than sympathy from others. Therefore, instead of looking down upon them with a pessimistic approach, I shall be supportive and considerate. They must be treated as equals. That is why I shall encourage them to take part in all activities. They deserve to study in regular educational institutions and get regular jobs. Therefore, advocation of this idea is very important. Only proper awareness and empowerment can make the world view them as equals and at same time make the ‘differently abled’ people feel socially accepted.

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