The Enemy By Pearl S Buck - (English - XII)

here is the summary of the lesson

the enemy by pearl s buck the story

opens at the house of dr sadao hoki

a highly successful japanese surgeon and

scientist

who had studied medicine in america

sadau's house was located on the

japanese coast

he lived there with his wife hannah

their two children

and several servants sadao and hannah

had met in america but were married with

the approval of sadao's father

only after the return to japan one day

from their veranda the couple saw a man

being violently flung to the beach by

wave they rushed down to help him

afraid that he might be a fisherman in

trouble

as they turned him over however they

realized that he was not japanese

in fact he was an american a prisoner of

war

who had escaped sadao noticed that the

man had a bullet wound

and was bleeding profusely while he

wondered

what should be done his surgeon's hands

seemed to

automatically work to stop the bleeding

sadao

and hannah contemplated throwing him

back into the sea

it would be the easy way out for if they

kept him

they would get in trouble for sheltering

an american but if they handed him to

the police

he would eventually die seeing his state

neither sadao nor hannah had the heart

to hand him over

eventually they carried the man into

their house

once inside sadao took a closer look and

realized that the man needed to be

operated on

again they were conflicted why operate

and save a white man

their enemy as they mulled over this

they decided to get the man clean first

sadao left the room and hannah ordered

one of the servants to watch the man the

servant however

refused to wash a white man as hannah

reluctantly cleaned the man's man sadao

returned

carrying his surgeon's emergency back he

had made up his mind to operate

with hannah's help he successfully

removed the bullet from the man's back

the man eventually woke up and was

frightened when he realized

that he was in a japanese home but

hannah allied

his fears over the next few days

sadao and hannah nursed a man but were

otherwise cold towards him

all true they wondered why they were not

able to go to the police

their servants became increasingly

worried about sadao

not informing the police about the

american after seven days

they left the house in protest hannah

and sadao

bore this stoically that day

sada was summoned to attend to the old

ill japanese army general

sadao decided to come clean with the

general and told him about the soldier

the general could not allow sadao the

best

sergeant in japan to be arrested so he

offered to send assassins to kill the

white man

and dispose of the body sadawa agreed to

the plan

he waited for three nights for the

assassins but

no one came finally on the fourth day

sadao decided not to take any further

risk

he told a young soldier who had regained

strength by then

to take his boat and row to a little

island

off the coast from there the man could

escape on a korean fishing boat

the young man was elected to live but he

left that night

night and was never seen again a week

later

after the general recovered from his

surgery the saddam informed him that the

prisoner had escaped

the general confessed that he had

forgotten to send assassins

afraid of being suspected of prison he

pleaded with sadao

to keep the laps a secret sadao agreed

happily

that night sadao found himself

reflecting on his life in america

and the americans he had met he had

hated bearing the americans prejudice

he could not feel thankful even to his

american

landlady who had taken care of him when

he had influenza

then he remembered a young soldier and

pondered on his inability

to kill the young white man