The face on the wall
1-What were the speakers talking about? They were talking about unusual events that seemed to have no natural explanation.
2-Who encouraged the storyteller to tell the story? Dabney.
3-How did Dabney encourage the storyteller to talk? He asked him if he had no experience to describe.
4-What did the storyteller say about truth? He said that truth is not only much stranger than stories but also much more interesting.
5-What did the storyteller say about his story? He said that the story happened to him personally and completed itself that afternoon.
6-Why were there *****es on the wall of the house? Because the house was old and the place was damp.
7-What was strange about one of the *****es on the wall? It was exactly like a human face. It never changed its shape.
8-How did the face on the wall control the storyteller? He used to watch it when he fell ill. It became the chief thing of his thoughts .He began to think of it as his fellow-lodger.
9-Describe the face. The nose had a curious turn and the shape of the head was very unusual.
10-What did the storyteller mean by" a man in a thousand"? He meant that he could easily recognize him and the shape of the head was very unusual.
11-What did the storyteller do after he had become well? He searched the streets for a man with a face on the wall.
12-Why does the storyteller feel sure that the face on his wall was the face of a real person? It controlled him that he began to think of it as his fellow lodger .The face didn't change on the wall.
13-Why did he search for that face? It controlled him .He was sure that the real man must exist. He thought they were connected by fate.
14-Where did the storyteller search for the man? He went to places where men collected together in large number such as political meetings, football matches and railway stations.
15-Why did the search become like madness to him? He neglected everything else.
16-Why did the police begin to suspect the storyteller? He used to watch people at busy corners. He looked at only men.
17-Where did the storyteller see the man? He saw him in a taxi.
18-What did the storyteller do to catch the man? He took another taxi to follow the taxi.
19-Who accompanied the rich man? Two ladies and a little girl.
20-Why did the man go to the railway station? He was going to take the train to Folkstone to take a boat to France.
21-What did the storyteller do to follow the man to France? He took the same train and the same boat.
22-Where did the man and his group disappear? They disappeared in a private room
23-What did the storyteller do to be able to talk with the man ? He waited in front of the room for half an hour.
24-What did the storyteller ask the man for? He asked him for his card.
25-Why did the storyteller ask the man for his card? He wanted to identify him.
26-Why did Mr. Wall give his card to the stranger? He thought the stranger was a madman and considered it best to do what he wanted.
27-What happened to the storyteller after reading the card? He fainted.
28-Why did the storyteller faint? Because he found the man's name "Mr. Ormond Wall" It was the same name of his street.
29-How did the storyteller get information about the man? He wrote to Pittsburg and to newspapermen .He met Americans in London.
30-What information did he get about Mr. Wall? He was an American millionaire with English parents who lived in London.
31-When did the face on the wall grow faint? When Mr. Ormond Wall had an accident.
32-When did the face on the wall disappear ? When Mr. Ormond Wall died.
33-What bad news did the storyteller read in the newspaper? He read that Mr. Wall had an accident when his car overturned.
34-Why did the storyteller describe going to his room as if he was in a dream? He couldn't believe that the face grew faint at the time of Mr. Wall had an accident.
35-What were the three extra ordinary things about the story?-The face on a wall in a house in London was like the face of a man in America .It disappeared with his death.
-The man's name had a relation to the place where the face appeared.
-The storyteller made the story up half an hour before telling it.
36-How did the storyteller surprise us at the end of the story? He made the story up half an hour before telling it.
By Mr: Mohamed Abdullah
الصفا /تمى الامديد /دقهلية