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The Enemy
The boy muttered, “What are you going to do with me”. What does this show about soldier’s apprehensions about his future ?
The American soldier became nervous and fearful on finding himself in a Japanese house. He knew that he had suffered a lot at the hands of the Japanese soldiers. Innumerable tortures were inflicted on him and there were scars on his neck and a bullet in his wounds confirmed all this. On seeing Sadao he was troubled what would be his fate.
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What will Dr. Sadao and his wife do with the man?
What will Dr. Sadao do to get rid of the man?
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How was the plan of the prisoner’s escape executed in the story, “The Enemy”.
There are moments in life when we have to make hard choice between our souls as private individuals and as citizens with a sense of national loyalties. Discuss with reference to the story you have just read.
Dr. Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?
How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the doctor’s house even when he knew as he could not stay there without risk to the doctor and himself?
What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldiers? Was it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dediction of duty or simply-self-absorption?
While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable specially during war time, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?
Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible one in the circumstances?
Does the story remind you of ‘Birth’ by A.J.Cronin that you have read in Snapshots last year. What are the similarities?
How were Sadao and Hana married?
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