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The Enemy
(Pearl S. Buck )
1- Sadao’s education- His father's main concern.
Dr. Sadao's house was built on the Japanese coast. Sadao knew that his
education was his father's chief concern. For this he had sent him to America to
learn surgery and medicine. Before his father died he had seen Sadao become a
famous surgeon and scientist.
2- Sadao Married Hana
Sadao had met Hana in America at a professor’s house. He did not fall in love
with her until he was sure that she was Japanese. His father would have never
accepted her unless she had been "pure in race".
They came home to Japan. Their marriage had been arranged in the old Japanese
tradition.
3- Wounded American Soldier Tom Found Crawling
Sadao and Hana found something coming out of the mist. A man seemed to be
on his hands and knees crawling. Then they saw him fall on his face and lie there.
He was wounded and lay motionless on the sand. A gun wound had reopened on
the right side of his lower back and was bleeding. Sadao packed the wound with
sea moss. The cried but didn't wake up. They read the faint letters on his cap: US
Navy. The American was a prisoner of war, an enemy of the Japanese.
4- Sheltered a white man
If they sheltered a white man in their house they would be arrested. But if they
turn him down as a prisoner, he would certainly die. The couple was in a fix. If he
were healthy they could hand him over to the police. But he was wounded. He
would die unless he was operated on. At any rate, something was to be done with
him. The two servants were frightened at what their master had just told them.
They thought that their master should not heal the wound of that white man.
Hana herself washed Tom’ s body and face with steaming hot water carefully.
