Test: On The Face Of It- 2 - Commerce MCQ

It is the bond of physical impairment that unites old Mr Lamb and the small boy, Derry. He got his leg blown off during the war and since then he has a tin leg. Derry got one side of his face burnt by acid. Their respective disabilities have not only caused pain and suffering to the body but to their mind and soul as well. They have to live with their physical impairment. Mr Lamb has adjusted himself to the ways of the world and stopped bothering about what people call him. He keeps himself busy in meaningful activities like picking apples, making jelly, bee-keeping and preparing toffee from honey. He loves reading books, hearing music, observing beautiful things and thinking about them. He inspires the small boy by saying that he has all the God-given organs intact. He has to decide what to do. He must work for it and then he can outshine even the others. Derry admits that ‘Handsome is he who handsome does.’ For him his face or how he looks does not matter now. He has become positive and has started thinking differently.

Lamb helped Derry develop a positive outlook and instilled faith and confidence in him. Derry had confined himself and looking at this Mr. Lamb decided to help the little boy fly high by teaching him some essential morals of life. He wanted to see Derry happy and confident.

Lamb was a very amiable and friendly person who would get into the conversation with the passersby and allow children to play in his garden. When it's a bit cool, Mr Lamb keeps himself busy by pulling down the ripe crab apples of his garden with the help of the ladder and a stick. He makes jelly with those apples.

Mr. Lamb always keeps his gate open because he does not mind strangers entering his house, He is an extremely social person and is ever ready to welcome anyone who enters his garden.

Mr. Lamb grows crab apples in his garden. He usually uses a ladder and a stick to pick the apples when they are ripe; then, he makes jelly with them.

Lamb had inspired Derry to overcome his disability by adopting an optimistic outlook on life. Mr. Lamb's teachings and advice impacted Derry to tread the path showed by him, and thus he returned to Mr. Lamb.

Lamb's meeting with Derry a complex- stricken lad with a burnt face becomes a turning point in Derry's life. Mr. Lamb teaches Derry to look positively at the world and love and admire everything he sees and hears. He encourages Derry to make friends with people and not to be bothered by their comments.

Lamb have a garden of apple. He like his garden because he love the nature. He spend time to pick the red apple and make jelly by that he get his earning. His house was inside the garden so he usually read books by looking at the garden side.

Both Derry and Lamb are physically impaired and lonely. It is only due to the insensitive attitude of the society that they feel alienated and lonely.

Derry’s face was burnt by acid on one side. When people saw Derry’s acid burnt face they tried to console him by telling him fairy tales. They said that it was not important what he looked like. Derry knew that people lied and showed sympathy only to comfort him and that he would not change and would continue to look like a ‘monstrous beast’.

Mr. Lamb was happy in spite of his disability as he was an experienced middle aged man with wisdom collected from his past life. Though he was also handicapped, yet he had not allowed himself to be overcome by the adversities of life. He maintained an optimistic outlook.

Derry, a complex-stricken lad of fourteen, is a victim of inferiority complex which is borne out of a misinterpretation of himself and the world. He suffers from an acute sense of self-hatred and rejection due to his burnt face and this leads him to total alienation.

Lamb's positive attitude towards life, his way of living, his optimistic character, friendly behaviour and finally he wanted to live his life to the fullest. These are the qualities of Mr. Lamb that attracted Derry towards him.

Derry knows the idea that the story, Beauty and the Beast, talks about. It talks about inner beauty and how, irrespective of the outside appearances, the inside always turns out victorious. He says that in reality nobody would ever kiss a Beast nor would the Beast ever transform as it happens in the story.

Derry was startled on entering the garden because he had not expected anybody there. When he entered there, he found that somebody else was already present there.