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The Enemy
How did servants try to convince their master, directly or indirectly to send the enemy soldier out of his house?
Servants tried to make Hana understand that they should not try to save a person, whom even the nature had tried to kill. They were superstitious and fearful about the wreak of the nature. They tried to speak indirectly of their resentment about the presence of the enemy in the house. They warned the couple of not working in their house anymore, if they would shelter the enemy in their house. They even put the mental and emotional pressure on their masters.
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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?
What was the chief concern of Sadao’s father? How did Sadao come upto his expectation?
What did Sadao’s father expect from him?
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