By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:
- Recall the events of the story in the correct order.
- Explain key lines in context — "The face is quite wrong", "three-quarters full", "This face is my face", "a moment of animation", "Is it me?", "the Sulphide", "a worthless bauble".
- Describe the characters of the narrator and the photographer.
- Identify Leacock's techniques of humour — exaggeration, understatement, irony, misunderstanding, absurd lists, invented words.
- Discuss the themes of identity, self-acceptance, artificial beauty and the arrogance of experts.
- Relate the story to today's world of photo filters and image editing.
- Answer ICSE extract-based questions with reference to context and a reasoned personal response.