Vistas-The Enemy

The Enemy- SUMMARY (FOR READING PURPOSE ONLY)
The Enemy is a story written by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck. It is about a Japanese

surgeon, Sadao. He went to study in America and meets a Japanese girl, Hana,
there. He marries her and brings her back to Japan to settle down. This was the
time of World War II. Thus, all the doctors were called upon to serve the
Japanese army. However, they allowed Sadao to stay back. It was because he was
tending to the old General who was on his death bed. However, one night, an
incident changes his life. He encounters an American Navy-man who is injured
by a gun-shot and dying.
Although Sadao was in no mind to help the enemy, he takes in the young soldier
and provides him with medical assistance. He keeps him at his house to avert any
danger coming his way. However, he knew he has opened doors to danger by
helping the enemy. His servants decide to leave Sadao too. As the days kept
passing, the soldier was now beginning to gain his health back. Now that the
soldier was no longer Sadao’s patient, he decides to kill him off in his sleep. He
informs the General of the American and thus the General reciprocates. They
decide to send private assassins to kill the American soldier.
While waiting for the assassins, Sadao starts noticing it was delaying. However,
during this course, humanity in Sadao arises. He realizes that he is a human being
at the end of the day. He now recognizes the value of human life as well as
universal brotherhood. Thus, this opens his mind which was limited to race,
boundaries, and wars. Finally, he comes to the conclusion that the American
soldier is not his enemy just because he belongs to another country. Thus, he rises
above his prejudices and does the right thing by helping the American soldier
escape, thus saving his life.
Conclusion of The Enemy
To sum up, The Enemy summary, we learn how love and compassion can make
us better human beings as opposed to prejudices and biases against other people
with whom we do not share anything but the bond of being humans.
The Enemy - Questions and Answers Short Answer Type

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Question 1.
What was his father’s chief concern about Dr Sadao?
Answer:
Sadao’s father was very serious about his son’s future. He would never joke or play with him. His
father’s chief concern was his son’s education. Therefore Sadao was sent to America at the age of
twenty-two to learn all that could be learned of surgery and medicine.
Question 2.
In what condition did Dr Sadao find the American soldier at the seashore?
Answer:
The American soldier was badly wounded and the t sand on one side of him had already a stain of
red soaking through. On the right side of his lower back Sadao saw that a gun wound had been
reopened. If immediate treatment was not given to the man he would certainly die.
Question 3.
What role did the American professor play in bringing Sadao and Hana together?
Answer:
Both Hana and Sadao met at the professor’s house. Sadao started liking Hana. Though the
professor’s wife was very voluble yet they were kind people and Sadao also started living there as
a paying guest. Thus we can say that the American professor and his wife proved instrumental in
bringing Sadao and Hana together.
Question 4.
What was Dr Sadao’s father dream for his son ? How did Sadao realise it?
Answer:
Dr Sadao’ father wanted his son to be an educated and successful man. He never played or joked
with him. Sadao was sent to America to learn everything about surgery and medicine. Eventually,
Sadao became one of the most famous surgeons and scientists of Japan. In this way Sadao
realised his father’s dream.
Question 5.
Why did Dr Sadao treat the American soldier even though it was an unpatriotic act on his part?
Answer:
As a doctor Dr Sadao’s was trained he should never let a person die if he could help. Thus it was
nothing unpatriotic on part of Dr Sadao. He even told the old General about the soldier. Dr Sadao
only performed his duty and saved the life of a human being not an American.
Question 6.
The General did not take any action against Dr Sadao even when he came to know about his
sheltering of the American soldier?
Answer:
The General needed Dr Sadao’s services as a doctor and surgeon for his treatment. He himself
told Dr Sadao that no one in the entire Japan is so capable to save his life. Any action against Dr
Sadao would also lead to his own death.
Question 7.
How did Hana help Dr Sadao?
Answer:
Hana helped her husband in the operation. She her-self washed the man. While Sadao performed
the operation, Hana helped him in giving the anaesthetic. She acted as a nurse while her husband
was performing the operation.
Question 8.
Why had Hana to wash the wounded man her-self?
Answer:
Hana asked the governess, Yumi, of her baby to help to wash the man. But Yumi bluntly refused
saying she had never washed a white man and would never wash one. Moreover that man was
their enemy. Therefore Hana had to wash the man herself.
Question 9.
How could you say that the American was tortured? Who could have tortured him?
Answer:
There were red scars on the back side of the neck of the American. It clearly showed that the man
was badly tortured. The Japanese General Takima was a very cruel man. He must have tortured
the man.
Question 10.
Why did the servants leave Dr Sadao’s house?
Answer:
Dr Sadao had given shelter to an enemy soldier. According to the servants, it was an act of
treason. They looked upon the Americans as their enemies since Japan and America were at war.
When they found that instead of handing over the enemy soldier to the police, Dr Sadao had
decided to treat him, they decided to leave his house.
Questions and Answers Long Answer Type

Question 1.
To choose between professional loyalty and patriotism was a dilemma for Dr Sadao. How did he
succeed in betraying neither?
Answer:
As a doctor, Sadao was taught that he should never let a person die if he could help. One evening,
he found a badly injured enemy soldier on the sea beach near his house. The man could die if not
given proper medical aid. Now, Dr Sadao decided to perform an opertation on the man though he
was an enemy soldier. He tended him well and took great care of him.
In this way Dr Sadao was able to maintain his professional loyalty. But Dr Sadao was a patriotic
from the core of his heart. He knew it was an act of treason to harbour an enemy soldier.
Therefore, he wrote a letter to the authorities about it and put it in his drawer. He even told the old
General everything about the enemy soldier. It is other thing that the General did not take any
action against the enemy soldier. But Dr Sadao was able to maintain a perfect balance between
his professional loyalty and patriotism.
Question 2.
Good values are far above any other value system. How did Dr Sadao succeed as a doctor as well
as a patriot?
Answer:
Dr Sadao is full of finer values of humanity kindness, love for human beings and also love for one’s
passion. As a doctor, he is taught not to let a person die if he could help. One evening he found a
badly injured enemy soldier on the sea beach near his house. The man could die if not given
proper medical aid.
Now Dr Sadao decided to perform an operation on the man though he was an enemy soldier. He
tended him well and took great care of him. In this way Dr Sadao was able to maintain his
professional loyalty.
But Dr Sadao was a patriotic from the core of his heart. He knew it was an act of treason to
harbour an enemy soldier. Therefore he wrote a letter to the authorities about it and put it in his
drawer.He even told the old General everything about the enemy soldier. It is other thing that the
General did not take any action against the enemy soldier. Thus, Dr Sadao succeeded as a doctor
as well as a patriot.

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