Class 12 English Chapter 12 Notes The Enemy

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The Enemy

VISTAS

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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1. Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house? 

Ans. Dr Sadao Hoki was a Japanese doctor famous both as a surgeon and as a scientist. His square stone house was on the Japanese coast, where he had played as a child. It was constructed upon the rocks, overlooking the beach and a row of bent pines.

2. Will Dr Sadao be arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?

Ans. Dr. Sadao was taking a great risk by giving shelter to an enemy soldier and by operating upon him. If found out, he would definitely be arrested, as would all who lived in his house. However, Dr. Sadao himself tells the General about the soldier, who agrees to help him rather than arrest him.

3. Will Hana help the wounded man and wash him herself?

Ans. In the face of the situation where her husband, Dr. Sadao has decided to help the soldier, and where the house staff have refused to have anything to do with him, Hana decides to help the wounded soldier and wash him herself.

4. What will Dr Sadao and his wife do with the man? 

Ans. When the wounded enemy soldier first appeared on their beach, Dr Sadao and his wife thought it would be best to put him back into the sea. However, they could not bring themselves to execute this heartless action and took him into the house. Dr Sadao operated upon his wound, removed the bullet and with Hana, tended him until he was fit enough to be on his own.

5. Will Dr Sadao be arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy? 

Ans. No, Dr Sadao is not arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy, because he was not caught and instead had taken the General into confidence.

6. What will Dr Sadao do to get rid of the man? 

Ans. When Dr Sadao is disappointed in the General, who did not keep his promise of helping him get rid of the enemy soldier, he decides to take matters into his own hands. He dresses the man in Japanese clothes and covers his head with a black cloth. He puts the man in a boat, with food and clothing, and sends him to a nearby uninhabited island. He asks him to live there until he saw a passing-by, friendly Korean fishing boat which would pick him up and take him to safety.

S.L. No.	CONTENTS
	PROSE SECTION
1	The Last Lesson
2	Lost Spring
3	Deep Water
4	Indigo
5	Going Places
6	Memoirs Of A Chota Sahib
	POETRY SECTION
1	My Mother At Sixty-Six
2	Keeping Quiet
3	Notes A Thing Of Beauty
4	A Roadside Stand
	VISTAS
1	The Tiger King
2	The Enemy
3	On The Face Of It
4	Memories Of Childhood
5	Magh Bihu Or Maghar Domahi

Reading with Insight

1. There are moments in life when we have to make hard choices between our roles as private individuals and as citizens with a sense of national loyalty. Discuss with reference to the story you have just read. 

Ans. When a wounded enemy soldier, who possibly was an escaped prisoner of war, was washed up on the beach near Dr Sadao Hoki’s home, Dr Sadao and his wife were saddled with the choice of whether to nurse him back to health or hand him over to the authorities. As private, ethical individuals, their hearts told them to take care of him and tend to his wounds, a step that involved great risk for them and for the soldier; as loyal citizens of the country they knew they had to hand him over to the police in which situation he would surely die. They also had the third choice of putting him back into the sea and letting him die there. It was a tough choice, but a choice they had to make immediately. Similarly, we in life are often faced with such hard choices where there is a tussle between our roles are moral private individuals and as members of society who are bound by social and political limitations. Both roles often demand us to do opposite things. The choice then  becomes hard.

2. 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?

Ans. The domestic staff of the Sadao family were vehement in their defiance against the doctor and his wife helping the wounded enemy soldier. They were scared that if they helped the doctor, they would be arrested by the police. They also feared that the gun, and the sea with its rocks, which had harmed the soldier, would take revenge on them if they tried to undo what was done by them. Hana felt that their defiance only showed their baseless Superstition and stupidity. Though she herself was frightened to help the enemy soldier, she became sympathetic towards her husband’s sense of duty, in her own conviction of her Superiority over the domestic staff. She knew that being more intelligent and compassionate than them, she had to assist her husband in nursing the soldier back to health.

3. How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the shelter of the doctor’s home even when he knew he couldn’t stay there without risk to the doctor and himself?

Ans. The reason for the reluctance of the soldier to leave the shelter of the doctor’s home was his knowing that until he was here he was protected by the doctor and his wife and taken care of by them. Out of their home, in enemy territory, there was danger everywhere and he was sure to be arrested by the police, treated as a prisoner of war and maybe even tortured again. There was no way he would be safe. Hence, despite causing risk to himself and his rescuers, he was reluctant to leave and almost terrified to do so.

4. What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier? Was it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dereliction of duty or simply self- absorption? 

Ans. The General promised Dr Sadao that he would send expert assassins to kill the enemy soldier and even offered to have his body removed. However, night after night Dr Sadao waited for the men to come and do their work, but they didn’t come. Finally, after the third night, he took matters in his own hands and helped the soldier to escape. The General had been so absorbed with himself, that he had simply forgotten his promise out the doctor. There is a chance that he intentionally ‘forgot’ about his promise out of human consideration for the American soldier. He might have mentioned the extreme step of sending assassins, trusting that the doctor would then find a way out himself.

5. While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially during wartime, what make a human being rise above narrow prejudices? 

Ans. A man’s sense of duty towards his profession and his ethical upbringing can make a man rise above narrow prejudices. Wars are a creation of the constricted dispositions of a few individuals, when unnatural bindings are made on all the citizens of the warring nations. Hatred does build up against the people of the enemy country, because they have been the cause of death of loved ones and of the youth. Yet, the upbringing of a person, his sense of morality and duty make him/her rise above such narrow prejudices. As in the case of Dr Sadao, his medical training made him auto-respond to the enemy soldier’s would, his fingers began to work to heal even before his mind had decided to do so. His wife Hana too rose above all fear and anxiety to help her husband.

6. Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible one in the circumstances? 

Ans. Under the circumstances, the doctor’s final solution to the problem was undoubtedly the best possible one. He put the soldier on a boat, with food and clothing, and sent him to an island where there was a great chance of his being picked by a Korean fishing boat. His decision to give him a flashlight also was a good one, because when one night there was no flash from the island, he knew the soldier had found safety on a Korean boat. Dr Sadao could now be at peace.

7. Does the story remind you of Birth by A.J. Cronin that you read in Snapshots last year?

Ans. Yes, the story does remind me of Birth by A.J. Cronin. Both the stories are about saving a human being from the mouth of death. In this story, if the soldier had not washed up to Dr Sadao’s beach he would have been captured or dead; and in the story Birth, the new-born baby who was given up for dead, would have been so, but for the doctor who tried hard for over thirty minutes, doing everything in his capacity until he finally brought the child back to life. Both are stories of victory of life over death, and of doctors holding their duty supreme over everything else.

8. Is there any film you have seen or novel you have read with similar theme? 

Ans. Students Do Yourself.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

1. Why was Dr Sadao not sent abroad with the Japanese troops, to fight the war? 

Ans. Dr Sadao was not sent to war to fight alongside the Japanese troops because as a surgeon and a scientist he was developing a discovery that would make wounds completely clean. Another reason was that there was a major possibility that the General might need to be operated upon, and he trusted only Dr Sadao to do this.

2. Where did Sadao first meet his wife, Hana? Why did he wait to allow himself to fall in love with her? 

Ans. Sadao had first met Hana in America, where they were both studying. They met at a professor’s house, as this professor and his wife were eager to help their foreign students and had invited them home. Sadao’s father would not have accepted a daughter-in-law who was not a pure Japanese. Hence, Sadao had to be sure of this fact first, before he allowed himself to fall in love with Hana.

3. As Dr Sadao and Hana stood together, what did they see thrown to shore from the sea? How did they react? 

Ans. As Dr Sadao and Hana stood together, they suddenly saw a man thrown ashore from the sea. He seemed to stand up with difficulty and staggera few steps, before being covered by the mist. When they saw him again, he was crawling on his hands and knees, and then they saw him falling flat on his face.

Sadao and Hana ran down the steps of their house towards the beach, thinking it may be a fisherman, who would be badly injured by the rocks in the sea beyond the beach.

4. How did they inspect the man, what did they see and what conclusion did they draw regarding who he was?

Ans. When Sadao and Hana reached the injured man, they saw that he was wearing ragged clothes, and his head was covered with a cap. When Sadao turned his head, they saw that the man was white and he had long blond hair and a beard, which hadn’t been cut for weeks. The man had been shot on his back and the gun-wound was bleeding by having been struck by a rock at sea. On closer inspection of the man’s cap, Sadao saw the letters “U.S. Navy written on it, and realised that the man was a prisoner of war who had escaped.

5. Why did they think that the kindest thing would be to put him back into the sea? Were they able to do so? Why How did the doctor defend his action? 

Ans. Sadao and his wife realized that if they took the man home, they would be arrested; and if they turned him over to the police as a prisoner of war, the man would definitely die. In such a situation they felt it would be kindest to put him back into the sea and save him the torture of getting arrested and treated as a prisoner.

Despite knowing that the best thing would be to put the man back into the sea, neither Sadao nor Hana could do it. They were compassionate people, and could not bring themselves to take this heartless action. Moreover, the doctor was trained to save lives and not take lives.

Dr Sadao defended his action by thinking that if the man was uninjured, he would have easily handed him over to the police immediately as he hated the man for being an American and thus his enemy; but because he was injured and wounded he could not bring himself to do so.

6. “Certainly, I would not think of doing anything else.” What was Dr Sadao referring to and did he keep his word?

Ans. When Dr Sadao said “Certainly, I would not think of doing anything else, he was referring to handing the injured white man to the police. He and his wife had decided to carry the man home, and then hand him over to the police. No, Dr Sadao did not hand the man over to the police. In fact, he operated on his wound and cared for him until he was well.

7. What was the reaction of the servants when they learnt about the enemy soldier having been brought home?

Ans. When the house servants learnt about the enemy soldier having been brought home they were very frightened. The old gardener was of the view that the man should be left to die; if Sadao healed him the gun and the sea that had caused the man’s wounds, would take revenge. The children’s nurse, Yumi, too refused to have anything to do with the man, leave alone help Hana clean and wash him. The cook too felt it was wrong to save the man’s life.

8. What do you think had caused the red scars on the soldier’s neck? Why do you think so? 

Ans. The red scars on the soldier’s neck were probably marks of torture, as a prisoner-of-war. I think they were so because the author brings them to our notice, the moment Hana hopes that he was not tortured. It is probably an indirect indication that the marks are scars ot torture.

9. What was Hana’s reaction when she saw the official messenger come to their house? What did Sadao now know he must do? 

Ans. Hana was filled with terror when she saw the official messenger come to their house. She felt that the house servants who had all left that morning, had already complained about the soldier, and the man had come to arrest them. Hands weak, and unable to breathe she ran to Sadao fearing the worst. However, the man had come only to call Dr. Sadao as the General was in pain. Seeing her terror and exhaustion from fright, Sadao knew that for Hana’s sake he would have to get rid of the American soldier at the earliest.

10. Why did Sadao sleep badly the night after the General promised to send in the assassins? 

Ans. When Sadao told the General about the injured soldier, the General promised to send assassins to Sadao’s house who would silently kill the man and do away with his body too. Imagining the killers to come at any time of the night, he kept waking up with imagined sounds of rustling leaves, breaking twigs, etc. as made by men carrying away a burden. For this reason, he slept very badly.

11. Why did Sadao think he had the General in the palm of his hand? 

Ans. When the General admitted to having forgotten about the enemy soldier, and having failed to send in the assassins for him, he realised that this could be used against him as lack of patriotism or dereliction of duty. If the matter came out, only the doctor could vouch for his loyalty, and save him. Moreover, the General would never speak against the doctor, as he himself needed him for his medical assistance, and could not afford to have him arrested. In such a situation, Sadao realised that he had the General in the palm of his hand.

12. How did Sadao know that the prisoner had escaped from the island? 

Ans. Sadao had given the prisoner a flashlight and had told him to flash it once every day at dusk, until he was on the island. One night there was no flash of light from the island at the set time. It was then that Sadao knew that the prisoner had escaped from the island on a Korean fishing boat, because he had advised him to wait only for such a boat.

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