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The old man strikes up a friendship with the hoy who is very withdrawn and defiant. What is the bond that unites the two ?
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In the play ‘On the Face of It’, we find developing a peculiar and special bond between an old man Mr. Lamb and a small boy of thirteen named Derry. Besides the bond of humanity between them, there is another similarity which binds them. Mr. Lamb has a tin leg and Derry’s one side of the face is burnt with acid.
Because of it Derry becomes withdrawn and to a great extent defiant also. He avoids people or, as he says, people avoid him. Derry enters Mr. Lamb’s garden thinking that there is nobody there. But he finds Mr. Lamb there who encourages him to face life. Thus the bond is between two handicapped people trying to understanding each other though their attitude to life is totally different.