The Eyes Have it / The Eyes Are Not Here - Ruskin Bond short summary / analysis

The Eyes Have it / The Eyes Are Not Here - Ruskin Bond short summary / analysis

The Eyes Have It is a marvellous short story of Ruskin Bond who has used first person narrative technique in the story. The story traces an ironicencounter between two people who are blind but are unaware of each other's blindness.  The narrator, himself a young man, meets a young girl in a train compartment.  The narrator finds the young girl to be attractive and strikes up a conversation with her.  Assuming that the young girl can see, the narrator describes to her the beauty of the hills.  The narrator relies on his memory for the description, for he has not always been blind.  The narrator is quite taken with the young girl and wants to spend a memorable time with her as long as their brief journey lasted.  The narrator continues to address her not as a blind man, but as someone who could see.  When the woman alights at her destination, the narrator is shocked to learn from his new fellow traveler that the young girl was as blind as the narrator himself. This is an ironical twist that makes the end of the story so appealing. It is truely a heart touching story.

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