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Derry is a fourteen-year-old boy, one side of whose face is burnt with acid. After hearing so many taunts and unsympathetic remarks from people regarding his burnt face he does not like being with people. Derry enters Mr. LambтАЩs garden thinking that it is empty.
But he finds Mr. Lamb there, who, to a large extent, changes his attitude towards life. Mr.Lamb cites examples to make Derry understand. He tells him that on one side of the corner in his garden he has grown weeds. He says that there is fruit, flowers, trees and herbs of all sorts in his garden but there are weeds also.
He tells Derry that it is all life тАж. growing same as Derry and himself. He tells him that he is old and Derry is young. Derry has got burnt face and he has got a tin leg. He says that it is not important. Derry tells Mr. Lamb that he does not like being near people.
Mr. Lamb says that then Derry could lock himself up in a room and never leave it. Mr. Lamb then narrated the story of a man who did that because he was afraid of everything in this world. So, he went into his room, and locked the door, and got into his bed, and stayed there. Derry asked тАШfor everтАЩ. Mr. Lamb said that for a while because a picture fell off the wall on his head and killed him.
I think due to his brief association with Mr. Lamb, Derry would not get back to his old seclusion. His attitude towards life will change and he is more likely to lead a normal life. It is evident when Derry tells his mother that it has nothing to do with his face and what he looks like. He says that he does not care about that and it is not important. Derry says that it is what he thinks and feels and what he wants to see and find out and hear. He says that he is going back to Mr. LambтАЩs garden because if he does not go back there, he will never go anywhere in the world.