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The Enemy
What happened when Dr. Sadao and his wife Hana found the soldier of enemy forces outside their house?
Dr. Sadao and Hana were standing outside their house. They saw someone flung by the waves of the sea. They went closer and saw that he was an enemy soldier. They were in a dilemma. They first thought of throwing him back in the sea. But their compassionate nature could not allow them to throw the wounded person into the sea.
So they decided to take him in and treat his wounds first and then hand him over to the police when he recovered. Dr. Sadao operated upon the wound of the American and brought the bullet out from the wound. He gave him an injection to boost up the pulse rate. Hana administered anaesthesia to the American. They served the soldier even after their servants left the house in protest against sheltering an enemy in the house. When the soldier was fully recovered from his illness, Dr. Sadao sent him back to sea to an unguarded island, from where he could go away in a Korean fishing boat.
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Who was Dr. Sadao? Where was his house?
Will Dr. Sadao be arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?
Will Hana help the wounded man and wash him herself?
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?
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