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The Enemy
What suggestion did the General give to Sadao to get rid of the American?
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What secret plan did the General have about the American sailor staying under the care of Dr. Sadao?
The General told Sadao that the best thing would be to quietly kill the soldier. Sadao also agreed to it readily. The General volunteered to help Sadao in it. He told Sadao that he would send his personal assassins to kill the soldier to Sadao’s house. They were experts in killing a person, without even making a noise or even not a drop of blood flowing.
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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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