Answer the following question in about 120-150 words:

Why does Silas return to Lantern Yard? How does the visit prove useful to him?

OR

How does Griffin rob the Buntings at the vicarage? Do the Buntings realize what had happened in their home? Why?

Silas Marner returns to Lantern Yard to revisit his past. He wanted to know the truth behind his past. Chance and coincidence had played good and bad roles in his life. However, what he saw of Lantern Yard surprised him. Actually, there was no Lantern Yard, instead a house stood with overhanging windows. There was no sign of his old house, old chapel, or his old friends. The past he cherished had vanished. Last thirty years had robbed what Silas Marner remembered of Lantern Yard. Now there were gigantic bustling impersonal factories. There is no sign of Mr. Paston, the minister, whom Marner intended to meet. The old prison is the only thing that Marner finds in present Lantern Yard. Shallow faced people peeped from gloomy doorways and there was filth in the air. Lantern Yard lacked the past vibrancy.

Silas Marner’s visit to Lantern Yard with Eppie proved to enrich his zeal for life. Eppie’s presence in his life was both by chance and coincidence. Now, he loved himself and had faith in living life to the fullest. The visit to Lantern Yard established this faith strongly within Silas Marner. Now, he believed all good will happen to him and others.

OR

Mrs. Hall was after Griffin to pay the arrears but Griffin was without any money. He robbed the vicar of Buntings because he was in urgent need of money. Griffin was an awful man. On whit Monday, in the early hours, Griffin stole the money using his invisibility. He removed his clothes and bandages, entered vicar Bunting’s study and siphoned the money.

The Buntings were aware of an intruder in their house. Mrs. Bunting had heard suspicious noises and woke her husband. Though Mr. Bunting did his best to catch the burglar, he could not. Getting hold of an invisible burglar was out of question. Mysteriously, The Buntings had lost all their savings from the study’s chest drawer.