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 The Enemy
Values to Understand
Link for explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbEF-SboHg&t=1971s

The writer of the story conveys that there comes a time in a man’s life when it is required
for him to lift from petty considerations of race, nationality and act in human consideration.

About the Author

Link for explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbEF-SboHg&t=1971s

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, was an American
writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before
1934 in Zhenjiang, China. In summer time, Buck would go with her family to stay in her
father's villa in Kuling town, Mountain Lu, Jiujiang.

Key Points (Watch video for Explanation)

Link for explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbEF-SboHg&t=1971s

❑ The story begins with a description of the house of Dr SadaoHoki. It is a square stone
house overlooking a narrow beach, outlined with pine trees. As a child, he had
climbed those trees.
❑ His father was serious and did not joke or play with him. Instead, he took a lot of pain
to ensure that his son got a good education. At the age of 22, he was sent to America
to study medicine and surgery.
❑ He returned to Japan at the age of 30.
❑ Dr Sadao had not been sent abroad with the troops as he was working on a discovery
that would render wounds entirely clean.
❑ Sadao had met a girl Hana in America whom he admired a lot but waited to fall in
love with her only after he was sure that she was Japanese.
❑ They both were together in their room.
❑ They saw something black emerge from the mists. A man was flung, by a huge wave,
up out of the ocean. He staggered a few steps, crawled on his hands and knees, and
fall flat on his face.
❑ Hana realised that it was a white man. He was very young and was unconscious.
From the gunshot wound on his back, red scars on his neck and his U. S Navy hat,
they conclude that he must be a prisoner of war
❑ They lifted the man and carried him into the house through the side door
❑ The servants protested.
❑ Sadao entered the room with his surgeon’s emergency bag. He took over from Hana
and turned the man over and washed his back
❑ The wound was deep, and the man had lost a lot of blood.
 ❑ While operating, he called him friend, as it was his habit to call his patients, “my
friend “
❑ Sadao pointed out that though the Americans were their enemies, his training as a
doctor did not allow him to let a man die.
❑ The servants continued to be openly critical of their master’s action.
❑ On the morning of the seventh day, the servants left the house with their belongings
❑ Sadao is summoned to the palace to treat the old General.
❑ He confided about the prisoner to the General.
❑ The General offered to send assassins to his house to kill the white man.
❑ Sadao told him that he would give his boat to the man, that night, to escape to an
island nearby
❑ Sadao dragged the boat to the shore, put quilts, food and water in it and tied the
boat to a post.
❑ He gave him his flashlight and told him to signal if his food got over before he got a
boat. He also gave him Japanese clothes to wear.

Questions as per MCQS (Watch video for Solutions)

Link for Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRe1hHRkXpA&t=1887s

1. What did Dr give to the soldier for signal?

2. What does the narrator speak about in the beginning of the chapter?
3. For what reason, he went to America and when?
4. What does Dr. Sadao remember towards the end ofthe story?
5. At what age he came back to Japan?
6. Who is the author of the lesson The Enemy?
7. From where does the writer belong?
8. What is her Chinese name?
9. Why did the General not pass orders to arrest Dr. Sadao for giving space to a white man?
10. Why did the servants refuse to help ?
11. Why did Sadao marry a Japanese girl only?
12. Why did the messenger come to the doctor?
13. What kind of person The General was?
14. Why did Dr. help an enemy soldier?
15. Where did Dr. meet Hana?
16. How many children Dr. Sadao has?
17. The chief concern for Sadao’s father was
18. At first, Sadao thought, he was a……….
19. The wounded soldier belonged to
20. Sadao removed the bullet from close to soldiers’……..
21. The recovering soldier was fed by
22. “Why are we different from other Japanese?”, this was said by……….
23. When the assassins did not come, Sadao decided to……………
24. The young prisoner was asked to flash the light if food ran out
25. Sadao got his reward when
26. The American landlady had once helped Sadao when
27. Why did Dr become irritable and impatient with his patient?
28. Which war exists in the timeline of the chapter?
29. What do you mean by ‘Kimono’?
30. “Ignoring human’s body is a surgeon’s cardinal sin” who said these lines?